{"id":8953,"date":"2025-07-27T00:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8953"},"modified":"2025-08-01T01:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:24:10","slug":"his-satanic-majesty-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8953","title":{"rendered":"HIS SATANIC MAJESTY RETIRES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Quillette magazine keeps making the most amusing music stories to me: HIS SATANIC MAJESTY RETIRES. &#8220;Ozzy Osbourne really\u00a0<em>was<\/em>\u00a0popular culture\u2019s Prince of fucking Darkness. His songs have scored so many black-laced fantasies that if the devil has all the best songs, it\u2019s probably because half his playlist comes from Ozzy\u2019s back-catalogue. But for a whole other audience\u2014those who first encountered him through\u00a0<em>The Osbournes<\/em>\u00a0reality-TV show between 2002 and 2005\u2014Ozzy was something else entirely. A loveable but chaotic family man who may have seemed like a potty-mouthed lunatic, but only because the TV cameras kept getting in the way of what he really wanted to do when he was not onstage, which was to slump on the sofa and watch mindless TV.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quillette magazine keeps making the most amusing music stories to me: HIS SATANIC MAJESTY RETIRES. &#8220;Ozzy Osbourne really\u00a0was\u00a0popular culture\u2019s Prince of fucking Darkness. His songs have scored so many black-laced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8953\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-8953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}