WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Ghost, Wembley Arena London
Base metal for millennials forged by market forces
Clerically surreal: Ghost
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JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
THE CONCEPT behind Swedish rock band Ghost is a marketing coup. An entirely anonymous outfit, originally centred around the anti-Pope dressed lead singer Papa Emeritus and his band of so-called “nameless ghouls,” the group are kind of a stadium-rock version of Slipknot.
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