“I feel so privileged to have been on this planet when the Beatles were born,” says Ozzy Osbourne. “They are and will forever be the greatest band in the world. I remember talking to Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols. He said, ‘I didn’t like the Beat­les.’ I said, ‘There is something fucking wrong with you.”

Osbourne died this past Tuesday, at the age of seventy-six; his family didn’t announce a cause, but he had previously disclosed that he had Parkinson’s disease. By the time of his death, Osbourne had been doubly transformed by Iommi’s good idea about “evil.