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Ozzy Osbourne: Blizzard Of Ozz (Jet)

Richard Riegel, Creem, July 1981

THIS MAY be a little hard for Cliff Richard to take, but his fellow Xian, Ozzy Osbourne, has by now become the English Elvis Presley. As in Elvis' latter-years, live-in Graceland decadence, when his payroll was topheavy with sycophants and scarves, and he practiced instantaneous rock criticism by shooting Bob Goulet right off his TV screen.

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