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Sharon Osbourne Extreme - My Autobiography (Paperback, New ed)
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Sharon Osbourne Extreme - My Autobiography (Paperback, New ed)
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Exhausting memoir soaked in bodily fluids from warmhearted showbiz
vulgarian Osbourne.The wife of madman rocker Ozzy relates her
turbulent life story in chummy, "ain't-I-a-stitch" prose that is in
equal parts endearing and embarrassing. The daughter of prominent
London music executive (and alleged organized-crime figure) Don
Arden, Sharon became inured at an early age to all manner of
debauchery, violence and domestic chaos. (This would come in handy
later.) Bullied and manipulated by her father in a series of shady
financial schemes, the hapless young woman careened between London
and Los Angeles in a haze of alcohol and binge-eating, cultivating
a shrill fishwife persona along the way. So far, so dreary. Then
Sharon's friendship with the similarly gormless Ozzy Osbourne, a
pathetic, clownish figure hopelessly addicted to drugs and alcohol
and held in contempt by his Black Sabbath bandmates, blossomed into
an apocalyptic romance characterized by domestic violence
(including a murder attempt), paranoia, failed stints in rehab and
a devotion to fecal-matter-themed pranks. The storied business
meeting in which her man orally decapitated a dove before horrified
executives is presented here as just another crazy day in Ozzyland;
Sharon's reaction to the stunt was hysterical laughter, which
provides a useful indication of her authorial sensibilities. Some
of the charm found in The Osbournes MTV series is evident-amid all
the squalor and noise, the family displays palpable love and
affection-but the TV show had the virtue of clever editing. Here,
Sharon's compulsive purchases of dogs, jewelry and houses; her
screaming fights with just about everybody; her myriad tragic
illnesses and injuries; and her relentless profanity pile up into
an undifferentiated mass of bad behavior and grim circumstances.
Reading this messy memoir is like being stuck on a long bus ride
with a repellent yet fitfully compelling seatmate; the journey is
diverting in a way, but you're relieved when it's over. A life of
noisy desperation, vomited up con brio. (52 b&w and color
photos throughout) (Kirkus Reviews)
'I have been kept awake for the past two nights, utterly gripped by
Sharon's story . . . She makes Keith Richards, Kurt Cobain et all
look like kiddies at a tea party, overdosing on fizzy drinks . . .
she is radiant, confident, assertive and glamorous. And enormously
successful, having turned Ozzy's career into a multimillion-dollar
global industry, having recovered from colon cancer herself, and
having finally seen her husband do a year without a drink. She is
totally phenomenal' Sunday Independent (Ireland) Sharon Osbourne
has lived - in her own words - 'fifty lives in fifty years'. As the
daughter of notorious rock manager Don Arden, Sharon's childhood
was a chaotic mix of glamour and violence, villains and diamonds.
In rock star Ozzy Osbourne, Sharon found her soul mate, yet Ozzy's
drug- and alcohol-fuelled excesses - which culminated in his
attempt to strangle her - made their marriage a white-knuckle ride
from the start; only her devotion to their three children gave her
the will to survive. From the highs of The Osbournes and The X
Factor to the lows of Ozzy's near-fatal quad-bike accident and her
own colon cancer, Sharon's tenacity, honesty and humour have
triumphed again and again. In her long-awaited autobiography,
Sharon Osbourne reveals the truth behind the headlines in her
characteristically frank, intimate and articulate way. Inspiring,
heart-rending and full of love, EXTREME is the astonishing story of
a truly remarkable woman.
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