Dropping Like Flies

Mobius wrote:
My introduction to Ozzy was probably on the news during Suicide Solution trial. Or a counselor at camp who looked like he ‘did drugs’ wearing an Ozzy t-shirt. 

Then I saw Ozzy with Black Sabbath on the Live Aid broadcast. One of the first acts. It was incredible.  I must have rewatched it on Betamax a hundred times. 

Kind of epitomized apparent contradictions of Ozzy.  Here he is singing about apocalypse and psychosis looking like a 1985 grandma who flew in from Boca to Westchester for her grandson’s Bar Mitzvah . . .but it’s just totally empowering and life-affirming . . .the Prince of Darkness backed by the heaviest of heavy bands . . .and it’s a sunny summer morning in Philly . . .but the vibe is somehow perfect.  Completely insane but completely in control. And the crowd totally won over. Nevermind they hadn’t played together in 6+ years and barely rehearsed and less than sober

https://youtu.be/rixsC0TioYE

leet

Hulk Hogan, 71, cardiac arrest

These do not personally align with my interests, but there are some people out there who just saw Ozzy and Hulk pass within 48 hours of each other and that's basically their entire childhood.

Chuck Mangione

Guess you could say part of my childhood just died.. definitely had the “Feels So Good” album in the household

That was a quick 3. Or is it in 4s now?

Ok technically not childhood

I wonder who did more drugs over their lifetime, ozzy or the hulk?

Yada wrote:
I wonder who did more drugs over their lifetime, ozzy or the hulk?

Wait, we're not including Chuck Mangione in this? Sober people do not __just__ spontaneously pick up flugelhorns, bro.

kosmo wrote:
Guess you could say part of my childhood just died.. definitely had the “Feels So Good” album in the household

Honestly, if we're counting how many times my parents played his LPs on Sunday mornings, Chuck Mangione had a way bigger impact than Hulk Hogan + Ozzy for me personally.

Julian, wrote:

kosmo wrote:
Guess you could say part of my childhood just died.. definitely had the “Feels So Good” album in the household

Honestly, if we're counting how many times my parents played his LPs on Sunday mornings, Chuck Mangione had a way bigger impact than Hulk Hogan + Ozzy for me personally.

interesting.  It was also an album that was in my parents collection of Billy Joel, Rod Stewart, Foreigner, Dan Hill, Christopher Cross and Jackson Brown
Felt like they were so sophisticated listening to jazz

Jimmy Hart dropping fake news - https://www.sescoops.com/news/wwe/jimmy-hart-hulk-hogan-health-update/

grateful wrote:
Anne Burrell

Suicide

Insanity-Hatch wrote:

Julian, wrote:

kosmo wrote:
Guess you could say part of my childhood just died.. definitely had the “Feels So Good” album in the household

Honestly, if we're counting how many times my parents played his LPs on Sunday mornings, Chuck Mangione had a way bigger impact than Hulk Hogan + Ozzy for me personally.

interesting.  It was also an album that was in my parents collection of Billy Joel, Rod Stewart, Foreigner, Dan Hill, Christopher Cross and Jackson Brown
Felt like they were so sophisticated listening to jazz

^^ Add Cher and Traffic to this, and subtract Dan Hill, and you have my mothers absolute favorite musical acts of all time.

Yada wrote:
Jimmy Hart dropping fake news - https://www.sescoops.com/news/wwe/jimmy-hart-hulk-hogan-health-update/

I mean do we know that? They’re reporting he died of cardiac arrest — he could’ve been fine and doing karaoke a few days ago.

Julian, wrote:

Insanity-Hatch wrote:

Julian, wrote:

kosmo wrote:
Guess you could say part of my childhood just died.. definitely had the “Feels So Good” album in the household

Honestly, if we're counting how many times my parents played his LPs on Sunday mornings, Chuck Mangione had a way bigger impact than Hulk Hogan + Ozzy for me personally.

interesting.  It was also an album that was in my parents collection of Billy Joel, Rod Stewart, Foreigner, Dan Hill, Christopher Cross and Jackson Brown
Felt like they were so sophisticated listening to jazz

^^ Add Cher and Traffic to this, and subtract Dan Hill, and you have my mothers absolute favorite musical acts of all time.

there is no way your mom didn't like  "Sometimes When We Touch"
TIL Dan Hill is a a 51st state resident

sounds like our mom's would have gotten along famously



also, my parents had  Some Girls and I loved moving the faces in that album

also TIL
The first printing of the album was censored as The Rolling Stone lawyers could not get permission to use those actors' images. The cover design was challenged legally when Lucille Ball, Farrah Fawcett, Liza Minnelli (representing her mother Judy Garland), Raquel Welch, and the estate of Marilyn Monroe threatened to sue for the use of their likenesses without permission.

Hutch…have this?  mint copies are in the $500 range

She may have mildly liked it but she definitely didn’t own a copy or anything like that. (I have my parents record collection when they decided to throw them all out like fifteen years ago.)

my starlink

Insanity-Hatch wrote:

Julian, wrote:

Insanity-Hatch wrote:

Julian, wrote:

kosmo wrote:
Guess you could say part of my childhood just died.. definitely had the “Feels So Good” album in the household

Honestly, if we're counting how many times my parents played his LPs on Sunday mornings, Chuck Mangione had a way bigger impact than Hulk Hogan + Ozzy for me personally.

interesting.  It was also an album that was in my parents collection of Billy Joel, Rod Stewart, Foreigner, Dan Hill, Christopher Cross and Jackson Brown
Felt like they were so sophisticated listening to jazz

^^ Add Cher and Traffic to this, and subtract Dan Hill, and you have my mothers absolute favorite musical acts of all time.

there is no way your mom didn't like  "Sometimes When We Touch"
TIL Dan Hill is a a 51st state resident

sounds like our mom's would have gotten along famously



also, my parents had  Some Girls and I loved moving the faces in that album

also TIL
The first printing of the album was censored as The Rolling Stone lawyers could not get permission to use those actors' images. The cover design was challenged legally when Lucille Ball, Farrah Fawcett, Liza Minnelli (representing her mother Judy Garland), Raquel Welch, and the estate of Marilyn Monroe threatened to sue for the use of their likenesses without permission.

Hutch…have this?  mint copies are in the $500 range

Ugh I think it’s worth $10

Now if it’s sealed perfect it might be worth something

Am sure I have multiple copies of the original, the under construction and the other variants but it’s not worth anything

Pretty much every stones album had some issue with censorship..of course the classic starfucker etc…I think they did it on purpose to get press

I mean a first pressing run for the Stones in 1975 would have easily been in the hundreds of thousands

Cleo Laine British Jazz Singer 97

I'm searching the cobwebs but based on one concert database site she and her husband John Dankworth were doing fairly regular shows in the Detroit area in the late 70s so highly likely I was at one of those…