Of course, 3RRR and 3PBS announcers played Black Sabbath favourites all weekend; I heard ‘Changes’ oftener in the past week than I had in the last half century.
Monday morning program Deeep (sic) Space concluded with the little-known Black Sabbath track 'She's Gone' (google the title and you’ll be in Hall & Oates 1970s heaven, or a 1990s stadium rock echo-chamber) from their 1976 album Technical Ecstasy, a song that throws up a line in which perfect iambic pentameter, give or take a syllable, alchemises mere words into lyrics of otherwise ineffable sadness and beauty:
The silent emptiness of one-sided love
When I think of Ozzy Osbourne, I think of the scandal that hit our medical group twenty-odd years ago. One of our founding members was treating him for drug detox (This doctor had no specific training in this area) by checking him into a hotel and giving him boatloads of pills to treat anxiety, withdrawal symptoms, etc. Famously, Mr. Osbourne was on an MTV reality show at the time and was filmed staggering around, slurring his words and zoning out.
ReplyDeleteThe doctor in question lost his license for this. This guy never attended any of our regular meetings that I can recall; he was off doing his own thing, but I must have met him at some point because I recognized his photograph when the story eventually hit the Los Angeles Times. Our CEO promptly fired him; ironically, the CEO and this doctor had been longtime friends and the doc was instrumental in getting the CEO hired to run the group!
And that’s my story.
Looks like fame went to their heads.
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