Ozzy Osbourne recalled a drunken first meeting with actor Oliver Reed in which Reed showed him an unusual genital tattoo. The anecdote reflects both men’s reputations for excess and Reed’s longstanding public image as a volatile, heavy-drinking celebrity.

The article says Reed’s tattoo, reportedly two eagle’s claws, was commissioned in Los Angeles in December 1981 after several tattooists refused the request. Biographer Robert Sellers wrote that Reed intended it as a crude punchline connected to an eagle-head tattoo on his shoulder; the piece also recounts disputed stories of Reed’s extreme drinking and erratic behaviour.