I Was a Bigger Headbanger Than Ozzy Osbourne ; He Took Drink and Drugs to Excess On Tour with the Legendary Rock Hellraiser and Was so Out of It That When He Played Keyboards with Spinal Tap, He Didn't Realise They Were a Spoof...

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SLUMPED under a blanket in the dressing room o f a n American rock arena, a drinksodden musician tries to sleep off the Jack Daniel's before going on stage. He barely stirs as the uniformed men burst into the room and announce to his fellow bandmates they are about to raid the premises.

The men are not looking for anything so mundane as drugs they are searching for exotic wild animals, particularly parrots. For this is an Ozzy Osbourne tour, and Ozzy, the American press has convinced itself, bites the head off a wild animal at every show. Latest reports in this town suggest he has developed rather a taste for parrots.

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I Was a Bigger Headbanger Than Ozzy Osbourne ; He Took Drink and Drugs to Excess On Tour with the Legendary Rock Hellraiser and Was so Out of It That When He Played Keyboards with Spinal Tap, He Didn't Realise They Were a Spoof...

Minutes into the search, it is clear the animal welfare officers are getting warm already they can hear high-pitched whistles and muffled chirps. In a frenzy, they tear the room

apart until, finally, they get to the blanket.

Even after they rip it away to expose keyboard player John Sinclair, the musician continues his exotic bird calls until the officers leave the room, humiliated.

As Sinclair recalls the story in the sitting room of his remote Inverness-shire home, it is hard to reconcile the relaxed, bespectacle...

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