Ozzy Osbourne was an icon for loads of different reasons. Sure, he sang a great tune and helped create heavy metal, but Deep Purple did that, too, and no one talks about them as they do Ozzy and Black Sabbath. This may partly be because of events that happened outside the recording studio.
For instance, Ozzy did or did not bite the head off a dove or bat while in a meeting with record company executives. Legend has it he did, and the story is good enough. We can also believe he did something like that because he is, well...Ozzy Osbourne.
But what about the time he ended up singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" at a Chicago Cubs game? Even on the surface, it seems illogical for that to have occurred, and yet, it did.
Ozzy Osbourne sings at a Chicago Cubs game and gets covered by Sabrina Carpenter
Did he know most (or any?) of the words? It did not appear so. He did know the tune somewhat, however. The moment was also a perfect illustration of Ozzy the human being. He wasn't afraid to seem like an embarrassment because, ultimately, those kinds of moments are funny and interesting because Ozzy wasn't afraid to laugh at himself.
There was no one like Ozzy Osborne. As in, no one would ever mistake him for anyone else. In August 2003, he sang “Take Me Out To The Ballgame,” got fewer than 10% of the song right, and it was perfect. pic.twitter.com/kVLSBucO1X
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) July 22, 2025
When he met the staff when Conan O'Brien still had his television talk show, Ozzy was hilarious because he understood how people saw him. He was much more than a caricature, though. He was a fully formed and down-to-earth person. He wasn't just a Brummie from Birmingham, England; he was a hick from the sticks like most of us.
Conan was smart enough to film the whole event, and Ozzy was intelligent enough to know what to do, all the while the duo was basically doing a Borat of O'Brien's own staff. It was wonderful and perfect.
But the unexpected moments that paid homage to Ozzy Osbourne well before his death could be magical as well. One such case had a 12-year-old Sabrina Carpenter helping perform a cover of "Crazy Train." To be fair, Carpenter is quite good, too.
She remains fully committed and buys into what she is singing, even if she doesn't know exactly what she is singing about. Carpenter sings better than most of us do, but the sentiment is the same. She knows the song is fun, and we would all sing along if we could.