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Despite what legions of metal followers would have you believe, Ozzy Osbourne is apparently mortal after all. The heavy music pioneer has suffered a stress fracture and will have to reschedule 10 dates on his Merry Mayhem tour, according to a statement released late Friday (November 9). Ozzy injured his leg when he slipped stepping out of the shower before last week?s Merry Mayhem stop in Tucson, Arizona. The metal kingpin then proceeded to tour on the broken leg for a week before seeing a doctor on Thursday and being ordered to rest. As a result, Ozzy?s Merry Mayhem trek… Read more »

Ozzy Osbourne may be the madman of rock and roll, but he’s also one or the hardest working men in music-and it just may have paid off. His string of in-store appearances and countless TV and radio appearances will help propel his latest album, Down To Earth, into the upper regions of the Billboard 200 album chart. “The reaction from the new album, Down To Earth, is blowing everybody away,” Osbourne said. “I knew it was a good album, but I thought six years is a long time are they still going to be into it? And it’s like wilder… Read more »

Hundreds of Ozzy Osbourne fans lined up to pose with the heavy-metal pioneer Tuesday night in Hollywood at the first of five in-store appearances around the country to promote his new album, Down to Earth. “I am doing this for them,” Osbourne said, pointing to screaming fans as he strolled down the red carpet outside Tower Records on Sunset Boulevard. “They’re loyal. It’s like a family.” Nearly 1,000 fans showed up for the event, according to Osbourne’s publicist. During the three hours he was there, most made it into the store to pose with Ozzy and get his autograph on… Read more »

Hundreds of Ozzy Osbourne fans lined up to pose with the heavy-metal pioneer Tuesday night in Hollywood at the first of five in-store appearances around the country to promote his new album, Down to Earth. “I am doing this for them,” Osbourne said, pointing to screaming fans as he strolled down the red carpet outside Tower Records on Sunset Boulevard. “They’re loyal. It’s like a family.” Nearly 1,000 fans showed up for the event, according to Osbourne’s publicist. During the three hours he was there, most made it into the store to pose with Ozzy and get his autograph on… Read more »

Ozzy Osbourne’s clip for “Gets Me Through” hit video outlets on Wednesday (October 3). Osbourne told LAUNCH the clip for the first single off his forthcoming album Down To Earth was altered after the events of September 11. “Before this dreadful thing happened I’d made a video for my first video off the album, ‘Gets Me Through,’ and it had fire in it and it had some blood and things in it,” he said. “And MTV so rightly sent it back, and said, ‘We can’t allow this because of what’s just gone down with the World Trade Center and the… Read more »

Lenny Kravitz returns to the airwaves this last week with “Dig In,” the first single from his forthcoming album Lenny, and definitively re-affirms his stature in the Rock world as the track becomes the Number One Most Added Track across all the genre’s formats. “Dig In” was the week’s most-heralded arrival at all four formats of Rock radio: Modern, Active, AAA and Heritage. At Modern Rock, “Dig In” was added, besting both 311 and Sum 41 in their debut weeks as well as Modern Rock veterans Blink 182 and Bush. At the Active Rock format “Dig In” debuted ahead of… Read more »

Voting is currently going on for the 2002 class of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, and once again Black Sabbath is among the finalists on the ballot. Frontman Ozzy Osbourne has made many caustic comments about the Hall and has intimated that he has no interest in being thus enshrined. However, in a recent chat with LAUNCH, Osbourne changed his tone somewhat and indicated that, if elected, he would serve. “I’ve voiced my opinion about it,” he explained. “I don’t really believe in it, to the respect that it’s not voted by the people-it’s voted by the committee.… Read more »

Earlier this year, the four original members of Black Sabbath- Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Terry “Geezer” Butler, and Bill Ward-got together to try to write some new material, possibly for another Sabbath album. And while they did come up with at least one new song-“Scary Dreams,” which was performed during this summer’s OzzFest sets-Osbourne tells LAUNCH that the prospect of more new music from Black Sabbath music is unlikely. “We all sat down and said, ‘It’s gotta be the same way as it was before,’ but it wasn’t, you know? I’m not the same anymore, neither are they, you know?… Read more »

Making a big party even bigger, P. Diddy, Kid Rock, Fred Durst and Ja Rule will join the roster of artists performing August 1 at MTV’s 20th birthday celebration in New York. MTV also said Wednesday (July 25) that Naughty by Nature, Tommy Lee and former Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford will perform at the bash, dubbed “MTV20: Live and Almost Legal.” Mariah Carey, Jane’s Addiction, TLC, Run-DMC, Billy Idol, Method Man, Mary J. Blige, Sum41, Busta Rhymes and the Neptunes will also perform at the party, which the network will broadcast live from Manhattan’s Hammerstein Ballroom. The event is… Read more »

California funk-rockers Crazy Town and Incubus have been added to an already impressive lineup of rock and rap live acts set to play next month’s inaugural ESPN Action Sports & Music Awards. Incubus and Crazy Town are the final two acts confirmed to play the show, according to a statement from the sports channel. Previously announced performers at the ceremony, scheduled for April 7 at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, include Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, De la Soul with Busta Rhymes, and revered metal titans Black Sabbath, who will close out the program. Rob Zombie, Cypress Hill’s… Read more »