Bassist Rudy Sarzo remembers Ozzy Osbourne's bat-biting, 40 years later: 'Sharon knew immediately that she had an opportunity here'
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Ozzy Osbourne eats a bat | On this day in 1982, Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off of an unconscious bat thrown onstage by an audience member in Des Moines, Iowa, and
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