OZZY OSBOURNE is an icon today, beloved and world-renowned.

But when the MONSTERS OF METAL series was originally published in 1986, Ozzy Osbourne was a wild and controversial figure.

Local politicians shut down his shows. Religious figures picketed his hotels. Fans tossed live animals onstage for him to bite the heads off.

It was not certain he would survive, much less dominate musically, for another 40 years.

Available for the first time as an ebook, this collectible biography is a deep look at his life and his work in his own words and the words of the people who knew him best.