MARY, MARY Our recent cover story on R&B soul giant Mary J. Blige addressed topics like her new album, My Life II … The Journey Continues (Act 1), her role in the upcoming movie Rock of Ages and the evolution of a successful career that now stretches back nearly two decades. Here are a few previously unreleased outtakes from our conversation with Blige, the remainder of which was featured in our July/August issue.    When did you start... 

DIARY OF A MADMAN Ozzy Osbourne is quick to acknowledge that he didn’t literally “sit down and put pen to paper” in composing his recent bestselling memoir I Am Ozzy. Instead, he sat down with writer Chris Ayres for a series of far-ranging interviews. “What he was very good at was going, ‘OK, that part where your father came home drunk and set the couch on fire. Can you go deeper into that?’” Osbourne recalls. “All of a sudden you...