The Osbournes Author:Michael Robin, David Katz Biting the head off a bat, peeing on the Alamo, snorting a line of live ants... That's yesterday's news. Get the real dirt on Ozzy and his thermonuclear family in The Osbournes. The Osbournes: The Unauthorized !@#$-ing True Story of the Osbourne Family by David Katz and Michael Robin (Andrews McMeel Publishing, August 2002) is an account of Ozz... more »y's impoverished childhood and adolescence, the birth of his musical career, the rise of Black Sabbath, his marriage to his first wife Thelma, his downward spiral into self-destruction and despair after being thrown out of Black Sabbath, and the unlikely intervention-and salvation-by Sharon Arden, the woman who loathed him at first sight but became the love of his life. The Osbournes also documents the genesis of the MTV series and places it in historical context with insightful observations on its predecessors in the realm of reality and "mockumentary" film and television genres. And of course, The Osbournes includes such vital Ozzy data as: Ozzy's Black Sabbath discography; Ozzy's solo discography; A head-to-foot "thinking man's guide to Ozzy's tattoos"; A "bleeped word count"-by episode-of the first season of MTV's The Osbournes. MTV's smash hit show The Osbournes is just the tip of the iceberg: this book will tell you what Ozzy, Sharon, Kelly, and Jack were doing before we started watching. The story of the Osbournes before they were The Osbournes is more outrageous and unbelievable than anything you've seen on TV.« less