“I only hope they’re not as boring as last time I played with them,” Ozzy Osbourne chortles, "or the 20 minutes’ll seem like a lifetime!” He’s talking about the Black Sabbath Live Aid reunion, two days away as I write. He’s also talking about everything else from booze to bombs to Betty Ford to bodily emissions and Freddie Mercury’s plastic tits, but the Black Sabbath reunion is as good a place to start as any and saves you from one of my much-maligned intros.

“I can’t stop rock 7T roll. ”