Bakersfield was all aboard Ozzy’s Crazy Train

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – How many rock stars can say they inspired the Bakersfield City Council to pass an ordinance specifically banning one of their more notorious stage antics?

Ozzy Osbourne, who died Tuesday at age 76 following a struggle with Parkinson’s disease, could say that.

The late, great frontman of the iconic heavy metal band Black Sabbath, who rode the crazy train to solo career fame, got the world’s attention when he bit the head off a dead bat at a 1982 concert in Des Moines, Iowa – earning him a tetanus shot, lasting infamy and a Bakersfield city ordinance…

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