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TIL in the 1980s, Black Sabbath manager Don Arden was quite hostile towards the band's ex-vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, who had recently married his daughter Sharon, and was fond of telling Osbourne that his children resembled the baby on the cover of the album "Born Again".

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