Article: Sex, drugs, rock'n'roll ..and nights at the opera

From the Bay City Rollers to Aerosmith, George Michael and Paul Potts, tour manager Jake Duncan has seen it all

IT was an ordinary hotel in an ordinary English town on a fairly average day in 1980. Until, that is, Ozzy Osbourne arrived.

As tour manager of the Black Sabbath frontman's series of gigs, Jake Duncan was responsible for making sure things ticked along, - from organising transport to pampering to stars' whims - but Ozzy blew apart his carefully-planned itinerary. "He'd just come out of a heavy divorce - this was before he was with Sharon," says Jake, relaxing in the lounge of his Edinburgh home. "He wasn't in a very good way.

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