On 6 September I will be leading a tour through the exhibits at the 'Ozzy Osbourne: Working Class Hero' exhibition at Birmingham Museum. Really exciting to get the chance to do something I have never done before! www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/events/spotl...

Spotlight tour by author Keith Kahn-Harris of Ozzy Osbourne (1948-2025): Working Class Hero | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery | Birmingham Museums

Join Dr Kahn-Harris for a special guided tour of selected exhibits, revealing how they connect to a much larger story. Through the lens of Ozzy Osbourne's

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Tonight: If anyone wants to attend but doesn't fancy paying, do hit me up - I have a guest list. Plus, there will be gin. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-beauti...

THE BEAUTIFUL DEATH OF OZZY OSBOURNE - with Keith Kahn-Harris

How Metal Teaches Us To Live with award winning writer Keith Kahn-Harris

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Just for today, The Beautiful Death of Ozzy Osbourne is 99pm on Amazon UK. What are you waiting for? amzn.eu/d/078OYzDx

I enjoyed recording this conversation on Ozzy for the Metal and Philosophy podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2h1...

The Beautiful Death Of Ozzy Osbourne - How Metal Teaches Us to Live

YouTube video by Heavy Metal Philosophy

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This will be my first time speaking about my book in London and I am really looking forward to it. Would love to see friends there (and enemies too). www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-beauti...

THE BEAUTIFUL DEATH OF OZZY OSBOURNE - with Keith Kahn-Harris

How Metal Teaches Us To Live with award winning writer Keith Kahn-Harris

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Chuffed that Rolling Stone UK published this extract from my book on the anniversary of Ozzy's death. www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/featur...

How Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath pioneered an entire world of metal

On the first anniversary of Ozzy Osbourne's passing, this exclusive extract from new book 'The Beautiful Death of Ozzy Osbourne' shows how he was at the forefront of an entire genre.

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If this were old Twitter I would run a World Cup of best redemptive story arcs and this would be the final matchup.

The fightback against the meal deal has begun.

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Following Luke and John's latest podcast, we're inviting our readers to make a ploughman's over the weekend. Send us a photo and we'll post the best across all our social media channels What cheese will you use? What bread and what varieties of onion? Radishes? An apple? buff.ly/DjGb3R8

I really enjoyed talking all things Ozzy and metal with The Spoken Metal Show Podcast. And I am thinking of getting a tattoo of the show's highly apposite logo. [The show is also on Spotify] soundcloud.com/user-7325494...

#227 Keith Kahn-Harris

Keith Kahn-Harris is a British sociologist and music critic. He is an honorary research fellow and senior lecturer at Birkbeck College. Keith graduated with MA and PhD degrees from Goldsmiths Univers

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Even though I am cautiously optimistic about the new PM, it's a sign of how beaten-down I've felt at the state of politics that I haven't been obsessively following developments. I suspect I'm not the only political junkie who has lost the taste for the needle.

I'm speaking at this Ozzy-related event at The Flapper, Birmingham, this Thursday. There will be acoustic Ozzy/Sabbath music too. Join me? Would be great to see anyone I know.

The coming week is going to be one where I lean into my metal side. But before I take the left hand path, here's the video of the lecture I gave, at the recent Leo Baeck College study day, on the significance of contemporary antisemitism. youtu.be/SVPdJ4h72Vg?...

Dr Keith Kahn-Harris – How Significant is Antisemitism Today? | LBC Study Day

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I love this picture of Bill Ward looking relaxed and unselfconscious in his wheelchair. Maybe Ozzy's final performance last yera has helped shift something in rock culture towards an acceptance of aging and disability. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward pledges to 'keep on rocking' despite wheelchair

Bill Ward, 78, reveals he has used a wheelchair for about 18 months, but is not "ill or giving up".

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The populist right in the UK have yearned for a quantum leap towards a US-style electoral majority who yearn for their own impoverishment and celebrate the venal corruption of their leaders. Farage is betting that he can make that quantum leap happen. He may be right. If he wins there is no way back

Look at this stygian beauty by @keithkahnharris.bsky.social … ideally I would have read it this weekend but it will have to wait until the deadlines gathered in their masses have been dealt with.

It's been a year since the Back To The Beginning concert. I found it profoundly moving and wrote this article for @thequietus.com. That led to @andrewfurlow.bsky.social inviting me to write a book about Ozzy. 'Life-changing' is an overused term but applies here. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Confronting & Celebrating the Limits of the Body: Black Sabbath Live at Villa Park  | The Quietus

Black Sabbath began with a broken body – Tony Iommi's industrial accident – it is both fitting and inspirational they end in the same way.

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Can’t read this yet thanks to their paywall but very pleased to see The Irish Times review @keithkahnharris.bsky.social’s The Beautiful Death of Ozzy Osbourne today:

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#MakingHeadlines This week, JPR, the European University Institute and @ec.europa.eu launched NERON - the Network for European Research on Jewish Life and Antisemitism, a three-year initiative to strengthen the research needed to combat #antisemitism and foster #Jewishlife in Europe and the UK.

This is very exciting: @jprdata.bsky.social, where I work, has been awarded, together with the European University Institute, an EU Horizon grant to develop NERON - the Network for European Research on Jewish Life and Antisemitism. www.jpr.org.uk/neron/about-...

NERON: Network for European Research on Jewish Life and Antisemitism

NERON (the Network for European Research on Jewish Life and Antisemitism) is a major European initiative designed to strengthen the research foundations needed to foster Jewish life and combat antisem...

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NEW EVENT: join us to talk Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath & more with Keith Kahn-Harris & his new book THE BEAUTIFUL DEATH OF OZZY OSBOURNE - Thursday July 30th, Mothers Ruin, Walthamstow, 7pm - tickets: tinyurl.com/4rs9sdb2

Excited to be speaking at Rock and Roll Book Club at the end of July! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-beauti...

THE BEAUTIFUL DEATH OF OZZY OSBOURNE - with Keith Kahn-Harris

How Metal Teaches Us To Live with award winning writer Keith Kahn-Harris

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I've been thinking a lot recently about metal, politics and how far we might need spaces of refuge from the political. Naturally, such issues involve Ozzy. Thanks to Prospect magazine for giving me the opportunity to think allowed. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7391...

How Israel-Palestine infiltrates everything

Or maybe not quite everything. As the case of Ozzy Osbourne shows, metal is proving peculiarly resistant to the battle over the war

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Now that Jeremy Corbyn and the man who replaced him have been laid low and left and right of the party have got their rocks off in turn, it would be nice for the Labour psychodrama to end.

Looking forward to speaking again at Penzance Litfest next month on all things Ozzy, metal and life-related. If I have friends in the far west of England I look forward to seeing you! [Link works but isn't showing a proper preview for some reason] www.pzlitfest.co.uk/event-detail...

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A publication day can be a bitter sweet day. In my newsletter I lift the lid on some extraordinary things that have happened to me in the last year, along with writing and publishing a book on Ozzy Osbourne. keithkahnharris.substack.com/p/when-is-a-...

When is a book grievable?

When publication day marks the end of something good

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First review of my book is out and it's a really nice one from @metalruleszine.bsky.social . And, cheekily, 2 days before publication with the now-classic misspelling of my surname! www.metal-rules.com/2026/06/01/k...

Khan-Harris, Keith- The Beautiful Death Of Ozzy Osbourne (Book review) : Metal-Rules.com

Spread the metal: Reviewed: April, 2026 Released: 2026, Harper Collins Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP Anytime that an iconic, popular and widely-recognized figure in any social [...]

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Me, interviewed in The Mirror on Ozzy's short-lived snail addiction and my new book. www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...

'Ozzy Osbourne was insatiable but his life is a valuable lesson to us all'

In a fascinating new book on the late Black Sabbath frontman, author Keith Kahn-Harris opens up on a life led at 100 miles an hour - and the legacy Ozzy left behind

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I don't know if anyone else is watching Legends on Netflix, but there's a moment in episode 6 where Steve Coogans character breaks up a fight and he sounds EXACTLY like Hennety in The Bureau trying to run a high class bureau de change... youtube.com/watch?v=7Va9...

The Day Today - The Bureau - Hennity Mix

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In preparing this article about the Golders Green antisemitic attack, I noticed a telling detail in the actions of the attacker that tells us a lot about Jewish visibility and invisibility, plus its relationship to antisemitism. k-larevue.com/en/2026/05/2...

Visible Jews, Invisible Jews

On April 29, 2026, a man armed with a knife attacked passersby in the most Haredi part of Golders Green, a Jewish neighborhood in north London. British sociologist Keith Kahn-Harris (a contributor to…

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It begins.