Ozzy Osbourne Bit the Head Off a Live Bat 40 Years Ago Today He'll never live down the infamous moment, even though the whole thing was a complete accident By Andy Greene ...

If you’re not familiar, here’s the short version: The rocker bit the head off a real bat that may or may not have been alive while onstage at a concert in Des Moines, on Jan. 20, 1982.

Ozzy Osbourne’s former bassist has offered his perspective on the notorious night where the Prince Of Darkness bit into the ...

3am; Celebrity News; Ozzy Osbourne; Ozzy Osbourne did not bite bat's head off to shock - it was all a grim mixup There thankfully wasn't a dead animal in sight when Ozzy Osbourne performed at the ...

Neal, who was 17 in 1982, told the Des Moines Register that he brought the bat to Osbourne's concert in a baggie, then threw it on the stage. Either way, the bat's head came off in Osbourne's mouth.

Ozzy Osbourne achieved infamy overnight after an incident on Jan. 20, 1982, in Des Moines, Iowa. During the height of his drug problem, Osbourne was performing when an audience member threw a bat ...

While there are many headline-making moments in rock music history, there are none quite as notorious as Ozzy Osbourne biting the head off a bat. The scene is set at the Veterans Memorial ...

Like most chapters of rock lore, the bat-biting was born of a rare mix of calculation and coincidence. Osbourne already had been prone to decapitations of winged creatures: He bit the head off a ...

Black Sabbath's farewell concert, which included hits like "Iron Man" and "War Pigs," comes as the rocker is living with ...

January 20, 1982: Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off a live bat during a concert Perhaps you’ve heard this one before? While on tour in support of his second solo album, ...

Forty years ago today, Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat during a show in Des Moines on his Diary Of A Madman tour. As the story goes, a teenager apparently smuggled a dead bat into Osbourne ...

Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne’s Turbulent Timeline, From Biting off a Bat Head to Reality TV (Photos) Sharon and Ozzy first met in 1971, the same year that Black Sabbath’s legendary album ...