The day Black Sabbath Brummie Ozzy Osbourne snorted cocaine for breakfast

Nov 13 2011 by Jonny Greatrex, Sunday Mercury

ROCK wildman Ozzy Osbourne snorted cocaine for BREAKFAST at the height of his fame, a shock new documentary reveals tomorrow.

The Brummie singer achieved massive worldwide success in the 1970s with heavy metal legends Black Sabbath.

They were infamous for their outrageous antics, which included wrecking hotel suites while consuming copious amounts of drink and drugs.

Ozzy’s legendary binges led to him being booted out of the group in 1979, forcing him to pursue a solo career.

Now the extent of the band’s drug-fuelled early years is laid bare in a new DVD charting Ozzy’s life.

Its release comes as Black Sabbath’s original line-up – Ozzy, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward – delighted fans by announcing they were reforming for a new album and world tour.

In God Bless Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer reveals the band had industrial quantities of cocaine delivered to their studio in the 1970s,

“We were in the recording studio for three months,” the 62-year-old bass player said. “We used to have cereal boxes full of cocaine brought to us.

“It was tipped into a big bowl, it was like living in the film Scarface.”

In the two-hour film made by Ozzy’s son Jack, the singer himself admits to a regular diet of drink and drugs,

He said: “I should’ve died a thousands times but I didn’t.

“I had sh*t up my nose and in my veins by 12pm everyday, that’s just the way it was.”

Shot over three years, the film gives fans a first-hand account of the life and times of the original rock hell-raiser.

It flicks between a recent solo world tour where Ozzy performed to crowds in Chile, Argentina and Canada, and it also tells the story of his rollercoaster life.

Born to a poor family in Aston, the dad-of-six spent time in Winson Green Prison in his youth after committing burglary.