Trashing hotel rooms is something of a right of passage for rock stars. They do it through boredom, anger or, in the case of most modern bands, because you’ve been told you MUST do it and as we all know, modern rock bands haven’t got an original idea between them.
However, when it comes to wilful destruction, there’s not many who are as creative as Ozzy Osbourne.
As we’ve all heard, he’s bitten the head from a bat, as well as biting the head off a dove and spitting it at the CEOs of his record company. He also took a piss on The Alamo. But what about destroying a room with a dead shark?
That’s right. Ozzy once soaked a room in shark’s blood while he cut its head off while on tour with Black Sabbath.
Sabbath guitarman Tony Iommi admits that, at the height of the band’s wild days, Ozzy decided to go mental with a shark corpse because the group were thoroughly bored of taking drugs.
Tony said:
“With drugs always you get bored, so you must do something to one another. Like Ozzy hauling a shark through a window, dismembering it and soaking our room in blood.”
The fingerless guitarist has just released his memoirs called ‘Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven and Hell With Black Sabbath’. That’s why he’s indulging in a rock star’s favourite activity – remembering the good ol’ days.
Iommi also said:
“We had management problems, I married four times. Was a lousy husband. I suddenly didn’t feel good, so I stopped drugs. No rehab. I’m a country squire. I live on a farm with dogs and chickens. All I want is to work. I’m dedicated to working. Listen, I’ve set up equipment inside an enormous dungeon in a huge castle in Wales. And worked. I felt creative.”
So there you have it. If you’re a pampered rock star and the drugs have gotten too much for you, the best thing to do is to cause havoc with a large cadaver and then put some equipment in a dungeon.
Simples.
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