Hated by the Press

When I think of a musician that has been portrayed in a negative light by the press over the years I think Of Ozzy. Ozzy has been  blamed for more criminal behavior over the past twenty years than any other artist in rock. During the eighties he was even blamed for coercing a young man to commit suicide. The young mans parent’s attorney  went to the lengths of saying  if you play suicide solution  backwards and at half the regular playing speed  Ozzy tells people to get a gun and shoot themselves. If this wasn’t the biggest joke I have ever heard of. I have heard the song more than fifty times and not one time felt like the song wanted me to kill myself. The family  drug this law suit on for months and Ozzy had to defend what he wrote and explain what he meant. After months he was let go with no charges but what happened  to our first amendment rights. Isn’t freedom of speech  just that free to say what ever you want. To the press it sure isn’t. After that incident   the press said Ozzy was a follower of the devil and should be banned from performing in the US. They attacked him because he was different. He wasn’t the Beatles or the Stones with their matching attire and very proper stature. Ozzy was a poor boy from England. He brought music that wasn’t for all the little school girls to enjoy. Ozzy brought a kick you in the face style of rock that not everyone approved of.  People hadn’t given him a chance ever since he bit the head off a real dove. This was in part to his future wife advising him to let a couple doves go to show he wasn’t  such a wreck loose. But the poor guy ended up bighting the head of the bird and further sending his career into a spiral with the media. But as we all see today  he is one of the most well known and well respected artist of his era. All the so called bad press just kept his name in the lime light and people kept wondering who is this guy and buying an album to see what all the commotion was about.  But even today thirty years later the press still tries to make him look bad or like a fool as they try and say he is a drug user and is hooked on drugs. Then a week later they print their front page story retraction noting that Ozzy was prescribed all this medicine by a licensed physician . Later to print how Ozzy was a victim of a drug pushing Doctor that wanted to keep Ozzy drugged twenty four  hours a day ,seven  days a week. But never the less Ozzy takes it all in good stride and still puts on a kick butt concert for all his fans, because he says he loves entertaining people. That sure doesn’t sound like a crazy killer to me but what do I know, I don’t work for the media.