Ozzy Osbourne Suicide Solution Metal music throughout the decades has always had people being upset by the lyrics that have been used. Sometimes people take the lyrics too seriously, like in the case of John McCollum. McCollum tragically committed suicide after allegedly listening to Ozzy Osbourne’s Suicide solution. The parents of John McCollum, believed that the lyrics that Ozzy had used in his song Suicide Solution had pushed their son to commit suicide. The parents should not have sued Ozzy Osbourne because it is wrong to blame the artist for a misinterpretation to the lyrics that have been used in a song.
Around this time Ozzy was not the only artist that had been writing songs that people believed were telling others to commit suicide. The genre of music that these songs were made in did not stay only in metal either. The music from Elton John, Joe Christ and the Healing Faith, The Nihilistics, and Metallica all had songs that the public hated because of the lyric choice that artist made. All these artist wrote songs that had an explicit theme of suicide, but real meanings go into the dangers of living the rock and roll lifestyle and even making a parody of moody teenager’s thoughts. Because of this lawsuit against Ozzy, other musicians were fearing for their creative
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Ozzy had stated that he wrote the song about Bon Scott, the lead singer of AC/DC, after he was found dead after a night of drinking. Bob Daisley said that he wrote the song about Ozzy. Daisley was concerned about Ozzy who had a drinking problem of his own at the time. The argument of who wrote the actual lyrics to the songs is still unknown, but both of the men that say that they wrote the song give the same reason to what the lyrics mean. They both have said that the song was about the dangers of drinking, and to warn people to not go to alcohol as a solution to their