I am Ozzy (Broché)

People ask me how come I'm still alive, and I don't know what to say. When I was growing up, if you'd have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street and asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the age of sixty, which one of us would end up with five kids and five grandkids and houses in Buckinghamshire and California, I wouldn't have put money on me, no fing way. But here I am : ready to tell my story, in my own words, for the first time.
A lot of it ain't gonna be pretty. I've done some bad things in my time. I've always been drawn to the dark side, me. But I ain't the devil. I'm just John Osbourne : a working-class kid from Aston, who quit his job in the factory and went looking for a good time.