Ozzy Once Accidentally Called The Police On Himself While High On Cocaine

One of Ozzy Osbourne's many collaborators on his new album, Slash, once said that cocaine is the biggest obstacle to keeping a band together.

It doesn't seem like Ozzy would argue with that after all he's been through. Cocaine, of course, was one of The Prince of Darkness's favorite vices in the '70s and '80s, and it almost got him arrested on more than one occasion.

After all, it's hard to record massive hit albums and tour the world as a rock god if you're stuck in a prison cell.

In a recent NME interview, Ozzy recalled one of his more idiotic cocaine-induced hijinks — that time he called the police on himself by accident while trying to turn on the air conditioning.

"I'm sitting in the f---ing house and I've got a big f---ing bowl of cocaine on the f---ing table," he recalled. "It was when Black Sabbath were doing Vol. 4 and we'd rented a house in Bel Air. I was sitting there thinking: 'It's f---ing boiling in here.'

"So I press a button on the wall, thinking it's the air conditioning. Ten minutes later six cop cars come screaming down the driveway. It's the Bel Air patrol. I'd pressed the alarm button. So I shout: 'IT'S A RAID!', grab the f---ing dope and me and this roadie run into a back room. I've got the bowl of cocaine and I'm [shoveling it into my nose]."

He was so high he couldn't feel anything and he felt like his eyes were popping out of his head.

"They said: 'It's alright, it was a false alarm.' I was f---ing gakked to the gills. I had to have a f---ing valium after to mellow me out."

The song "It's A Raid", featuring Post Malone, from Ozzy's new album, Ordinary Man, came from that memory, the singer says.

Slash, who recorded lead guitar on several tracks on Ordinary Man, told Variety in 2018 that cocaine removes all "sense of clarity" from people. He added that some of the biggest fights in rock history were "fueled by coke."

"Taking the cocaine out of the equation, how many less rock 'n' roll stories there would have been?" the Guns N' Roses guitarist wondered.

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