McCartney Times

He might not be renowned for his poetic eulogising, but Ozzy Osbourne may well have offered up the most captivating appraisal of The Beatles’ mammoth impact that any musician has put forward. “The only way I can describe it, is like this,” he told Blabbermouth in 2019, “Imagine you go to bed today and the world is black and white and then you wake up, and everything’s in colour. That’s what it was like!’ That’s the profound effect it had on me.”From the moment he first heard ‘She Loves You’, Ozzy wanted to become a musician. The light-bulb song illuminated a brighter future for the Brummie at a time when he really needed it. He was 14, and suicidal tendencies had plagued his youth, the result of sexual abuse that he suffered at the hands of school bullies when he was 11 years old. Factory life in Birmingham’s heavy metal industry beckoned, and he even served six weeks in prison for shoplifting in an attempt to earn a dime, but The Beatles arrived with a bang and forecast a very different heavy metal future for Ozzy.

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Source: Ozzy Osbourne’s favourite John Lennon song – Far Out Magazine