{"id":792231,"date":"2019-01-21T11:04:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T18:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=782066"},"modified":"2019-01-21T11:04:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T18:04:25","slug":"ozzy-osbourne-commemorates-bat-biting-anniversary-with-plush-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/ozzy-osbourne-commemorates-bat-biting-anniversary-with-plush-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzy Osbourne Commemorates Bat-Biting Anniversary With Plush Toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/shutterstock_9131895a.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>To commemorate one of the most infamous moments in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ozzy-osbourne\/\">Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>\u2018s career \u2013 and one of the most notorious incidents in rock history \u2013 the singer has released a limited edition plush toy of a bat with a detachable head.<\/p>\n<p>The 12\u2033 doll is a bizarre tribute to the winged creature that met its demise thanks to Osbourne\u2019s teeth on January 20th, 1982: On that date, during a concert in Des Moines, Iowa, a fan hurled the live bat at Osbourne\u2019s feet; during Osbourne\u2019s tour in support of <em>Diary of a Madman<\/em>, he\u2019d gained a reputation for throwing animal parts at the audience, who in turn came armed with their own morbid ammunition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/week-in-rock-history-ozzy-osbourne-bites-the-head-off-a-bleedin-bat-114854\/\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em> wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Osbourne picked up the still-alive bat and, as he wrote in his memoir <em>I Am Ozzy<\/em>, \u201cImmediately, though, something felt wrong. Very wrong. For a start, my mouth was instantly full of this warm, gloopy liquid, with the worst aftertaste you could ever imagine. I could feel it staining my teeth and running down my chin. Then the head in my mouth twitched. Oh\u00a0<em>fuck<\/em> me,\u00a0I thought. I didn\u2019t just go and eat a fucking bat, did I?\u201d\u00a0Osbourne had to get a rabies shot after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the web exclusive plush doll\u2019s $40 price, the first batch of toys have already sold out; fans can preorder the Ozzy Osbourne Plush Bat now at <a href=\"https:\/\/store.ozzy.com\/products\/plush-bat\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the singer\u2019s webstore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bs3Mx1LAcSv\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" readability=\"-4.75\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ozzy-osbourne-bat-plush-toy-782066\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To commemorate one of the most infamous moments in Ozzy Osbourne\u2018s career \u2013 and one of the most notorious incidents in rock history \u2013 the singer has released a limited edition plush toy of a bat with a detachable head. The 12\u2033 doll is a bizarre tribute to the winged creature that met its demise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 17:43:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}