A 17-year-old fan, Mark Neal, threw the bat on the stage, though the rock star claimed it was dead. But Ozzy Osbourne's bat incident is not just some quirky side story to his career but a key moment.

The past has come back to haunt Ozzy Osbourne. Unsurprisingly, The Bat State of England and Ireland — more commonly known as “BSEI” — has claimed credit for the attack, releasing the following ...