The Beautiful Death of Ozzy Osbourne
How Metal Teaches Us to Live
$27.99
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
11 September 2026
Summary
Pioneering metal writer Keith Kahn-Harris presents a moving, visionary exploration of Ozzy Osbourne, and of metal music and culture: the potent legacy Ozzy left us.
What is a ‘good death’?
How about this: After years of terrible health, you gather friends and admirers for one last, glorious party. A couple of weeks later, you slip away, surrounded by your loving family. Then, the world comes to mourn. That is how Birmingham’s favourite son, Ozzy Osbourne, died…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780008824921 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0008824924 |
| Author: | Keith Kahn-Harris |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | HarperNorth |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 11 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 135mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
‘A tremendous book which deftly explains how Ozzy was emblematic of metal as a whole: flawed, vital, ridiculous yet sublime’ Dan Franklin, author of Heavy: How Metal Changes the Way We See the World
‘Spellbinding … with verve and intelligence Kahn-Harris makes the case that the nutrients of this once maligned subculture feed the mind as plentifully as the gut. Can metal teach us how to live? Of course it can, it IS life’ Ian Winwood, author of Bodies: Life and Death in Music
‘Authoritative but not pompous, tender but not sentimental, and suffused with Keith Kahn-Harris’s love of the music, this is the only book that captures what matters most about metal’ Michael Hann, author of Denim and Leather: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal
‘Keith Kahn-Harris shows us that by channelling our higher Ozzy we may discover a path towards the better angels of our nature’ Tariq Goddard
Keith Kahn-Harris
Keith Kahn-Harris has been writing about metal since the mid-1990s and he is one of the founders of Metal Studies as a discipline. Alongside his scholarly work, he has written metal journalism for many years, most recently for The Quietus, alongside books on language, and Jewishness. He lives in north London.
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