Psychedelic Travelling and Music Alan Snowdon first achieved notoriety at the age of 16 when he drunkenly jumped on stage with Ozzy Osbourne, whereupon was given a sound kicking by security and then received a hug onstage from Ozzy, a fair trade to be sure. After a few years hitchhiking and busking around Europe he returned to Hartlepool a changed person, serious about music, and he started to gather likeminded people around himself, becoming a key recording engineer in the early days of the Durham Street Recording Studios.