Ozzy Osbourne's guitar raises money for hospice

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A guitar signed by Ozzy Osbourne has raised £1,000 at a fundraising night for a hospice.

It was donated to the hospice in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, by the Black Sabbath singer and his wife Sharon.

The event was organised by Mark Campbell, whose father Ian is being supported by the South Bucks Hospice day centre Butterfly House.

Ozzy Osbourne's guitar raises money for Wycombe hospice


BBC News
15 October 2017


The couple donated the guitar to the South Bucks Hospice - they have a home in Buckinghamshire

A guitar signed by Ozzy Osbourne has raised £1,000 at a fundraising night for a hospice.

It was donated to the hospice in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, by the Black Sabbath singer and his wife Sharon.

The event was organised by Mark Campbell, whose father Ian is being supported by the South Bucks Hospice day centre Butterfly House.

He said it was a "vibrant place" which gives his father, who has motor neurone disease, a "real boost".


The hospice was told the guitar came from Ozzy Osbourne's home studio

The LAG Tramontane electro-acoustic guitar was one of two donated to the hospice by the Osbournes, who have an estate in Buckinghamshire.

Mr Campbell helped organise the fundraising rock concert and auction at Pipers Corner School, Great Kingshill, near High Wycombe, where he teaches guitar.

He said: "My dad was diagnosed with motor neurone a year after he was told he had Parkinson's disease.

"He was really, really, low and Butterfly House realised he had not only physical needs but psychological needs - the change in him is remarkable."

The organisers do not yet know how much money they have raised overall.


Ozzy with his Black Sabbath bandmates Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward


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Nice story to hear - more proof that my parents were wrong about Ozzy (they thought he was evil but I always knew he was cool). Cheers!
 

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Nice story to hear - more proof that my parents were wrong about Ozzy (they thought he was evil but I always knew he was cool). Cheers!

Lots of people in the Seventies thought Sabbath were Satanists or something like that. But if they listen to their lyrics, they'd discover most of their songs were just anti-war and anti-drugs (even though the band used to take copious amounts of them).

Geezer Butler's strict Catholic parents used to beat and whip him as a child for swearing (which is why he doesn't swear nowadays), which caused him to paint his bedroom black and fill it full of Satanic paraphernalia, but they were never Satanists. They just wrote songs about topics that many bands of the era wrote about.
 
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