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The Beautiful Death of Ozzy Osbourne

How Metal Teaches Us to Live

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The Beautiful Death of Ozzy Osbourne

Di: Keith Kahn-Harris
Letto da: Christopher Ashman
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Pioneering metal writer Keith Kahn-Harris presents a moving, visionary exploration of Ozzy Osbourne, and of metal music and culture: the potent legacy Ozzy left us.

What is a ‘good death’?

How about this: After years of terrible health, you gather friends and admirers for one last, glorious party. A couple of weeks later, you slip away, surrounded by your loving family. Then, the world comes to mourn. That is how Birmingham’s favourite son, Ozzy Osbourne, died.

By his death in July 2025 – at an age few believed he’d reach – Ozzy was much-loved, far beyond the metal world. Once a feared, demonic figure to some (and a joke to others), his Back to the Beginning farewell concert at Villa Park raised millions for charity.

In concise, arresting chapters moving from Death to Life via Art, Politics, Sex, Bodies, Voice, Family, Myth and more, Kahn-Harris explores how Ozzy – of all people! – attracted such generosity of spirit. The answer, he finds, is deeply embedded within the story and culture of metal – and has lessons for us all.

©2026 Keith Kahn-Harris (P)2026 HarperCollins Publishers
Compositori e musicisti Intrattenimento e personaggi famosi Musica Scienze sociali Sociologia Storia e critica
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Recensioni della critica

'A tremendous book which deftly explains how Ozzy was emblematic of metal as a whole: flawed, vital, ridiculous yet sublime' Dan Franklin, author of Heavy: How Metal Changes the Way We See the World
'Spellbinding … with verve and intelligence Kahn-Harris makes the case that the nutrients of this once maligned subculture feed the mind as plentifully as the gut. Can metal teach us how to live? Of course it can, it IS life' Ian Winwood, author of Bodies: Life and Death in Music
'Authoritative but not pompous, tender but not sentimental, and suffused with Keith Kahn-Harris’s love of the music, this is the only book that captures what matters most about metal' Michael Hann, author of Denim and Leather: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal
‘Keith Kahn-Harris shows us that by channelling our higher Ozzy we may discover a path towards the better angels of our nature’ Tariq Goddard
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