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A childhood friend of Ozzy Osbourne offered a new take on how the Black Sabbath icon wound up with a smiley face tattoo on each knee.
The simple designs have been visible in pictures of Osbourne for years and he has previously said he sometimes talks to them when he has feeling lonely. Rumors suggesting that he did the work himself while serving a jail sentence for non-payment of a fine.But in a new interview with the Birmingham Mail local man Ash Alison now 69 said I did the two smiley faces on his knees. It did not happen in prison. I did those in my mothers house. We did all these silly kind of tattoos. We did not have computer games and mobiles back then. It was our enjoyment.In 2005 Osbourne spoke discussed the tattoos on Late Night With Conan O Brien saying: I hate being alone. I suffer from loneliness. So I just got two little faces on my knees. I can always pretend they are alive and talk to them.
Alison went on to recall that Osbourne had once dated Allisons sister and had also been a member of his older brothers band. Ozzy had many friends he said. We all used to meet up in the Ponderosa Cafe My brother had a guitar at home and they used to go in to my mums front room and have a little jamming session. Our mum used to ask Osbourne about his band playing and what he was doing. He said Osbourne had always been that type of weird kid adding Even his best friends at the cafe knew it. I do not know if you would call him eccentric but he had weird ways of doing things.
