OZZY OSBOURNE's Father-In-Law Added To Dictionary Of National Biography
January 6, 2011, 13 years ago
According to The Jewish Chronicle, late music mogul Don Arden and father of TV celebrity Sharon Osbourne, is among the Jewish names who have been added to Britain’s most prestigious biographical collection.
A total of 216 famous faces who died in 2007 have been added to the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB).
Mr. Arden, born Harry Levy in Crumpsall in 1926, was a prominent figure in showbusinesses for decades and managed his son-in-law Ozzy Osbourne’s band BLACK SABBATH before a family feud in the 1980s.
The DNB entry described him as the “self-styled Al Capone of Pop” who by the 1960s “had enshrined his reputation as one of the most successful and feared managers in British pop music”.
He died at the age of 81 after a four-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease, and was buried in Salford.
The print edition of the DNB, which was first published in 1885, includes more than 60,000 pages over 60 volumes.
