The former lead singer of Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, has finally fulfilled a lifelong ambition and written a musical about the Russian mystic Rasputin.
According to contactmusic.com, Ozzy was inspired to write the script after watching a BBC documentary about the womanising hellraiser. Osbourne considers him a spiritual ancestor.
He says, "It's a major achievement for me, because I've always wanted to do it. He's like the original rock star, you know? I said to myself, 'What better thing to write about?'
"I always wanted to do a musical for the West End or Broadway. If it gets picked up it gets picked up, but it was a lot of fun to do anyway. Being Ozzy Osbourne is great, but if I don't sing about the f**king devil or bats or whatever, people don't really want to know."