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Episode: At 16 He Was On Ozzy Osbourne's Tour Bus Traveling Music Historian Stephen Rae
Description: An entertaining, heartwarming memoir detailing the adventures and valuable life lessons learned from the author's four decades of friendship with Ozzy Osbourne and the Osbourne family.Stephen Rea was born in Northern Ireland in 1969, the same year "The Troubles" began. Violence was everywhere. His grandmother was nearly killed when gunmen opened fire on the wrong house, leaving young Stephen to pick at the bullet holes in the walls. He found refuge from this turmoil in heavy metal-especially the music of Ozzy Osbourne. As a pre-internet teenager, he hunted down dozens of live concert bootlegs-corresponding by mail with collectors around...