Looking Back: Ozzy Osbourne plays the Field House in Troy in 1996

Editor’s note: This review from Greg Haymes, “Ozzy Osbourne comes roaring back into town” critiquing Ozzy Osbourne’s show at the Houston Field House at RPI, ran in the Jan. 29, 1996 edition of  the Times Union. We are pulling it out now in light of Osbourne’s death on July 22, 2025.

TROY — The wind, rain and sleet storm wasn’t the only one that blew into the Capital Region on Saturday. There was also plenty of howling going on at RPI’s Houston Field House as the Blizzard of Oz — Ozzy Osbourne himself — unleashed an avalanche of molten heavy metal, much to the delight of several generations of metalheads.

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