Bassist Rudy Sarzo remembers Ozzy Osbourne's bat-biting, 40 years later: 'Sharon knew immediately that she had an opportunity here'
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Thirty years on, bats get their revenge on Ozzy: Rocker told that he cannot convert barn where they live | Daily Mail Online
Ozzy Osbourne eats a bat | On this day in 1982, Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off of an unconscious bat thrown onstage by an audience member in Des Moines, Iowa, and
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Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat 37 years ago, and, for some reason, now a toy commemorates it - The Washington Post
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The debauched world of Ozzy Osbourne - biting bats to Sharon finding him in bed with the nanny | Daily Mail Online
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Ozzy Osbourne to install bat boxes at Buckinghamshire mansion 40 years after biting head off one - Buckinghamshire Live
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