Ozzy Osbourne is no stranger to controversy. The man has willingly bitten the head off not one, but two live, winged creatures (a dove and a bat) and peed on (or very near, depending on the source) The Alamo. His music has also been criticized time and time again by concerned parental groups who allege that Ozzy's tunes contain hidden, Satanic messages and have caused at least two teenagers to take his own life. But perhaps the biggest Ozzy-related controversy the world has since forgotten involves his song "Bark at the Moon." Inspired by the punchline to a joke that Ozzy used to tell frequently--that punchline being "Eat sh*t and bark at the moon," though we have no idea what the set up to that could possibly be--Ozzy and guitarist Jake E. Lee wrote the song about a werewolf. For some reason, 20-year-old Canadian man James Jollimore felt a certain kinship with the Jekyll/Hyde character described in the lyrics, so much so that it inspired him to stab a woman and her two sons to death on New Year's Eve in 1983. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnNWUUZ7cEA According to one of Jollimore's friends, "Jimmy said that every time he listened to the song he felt strange inside." The friend also claims that hearing the song on New Year's Eve awoke the murderer within, and it was the main impetus for his horrific crimes.
