SAN ANTONIO - Legendary rocker Ozzy Osborne is no stranger to controversy, or to the Alamo City for that matter. They kind of go hand-in-hand.

His antics are from his nearly 60-years on stage are stuff of legend. And as the "Prince of Darkness" celebrates his 73th birthday on Friday, we look back at his infamous bathroom break back in 1982 that got him banned from San Antonio for over 20 years.

It was the morning of Feb. 19, 1982 and a drunken Ozzy, wearing his wife's dress because she had hidden all his clothes so he wouldn't go out, was walking along the streets of Downtown San Antonio. He decides to answer the call of nature by urinating on a statue. That statue was actually the Alamo Cenotaph and that bad judgement call landed the rocker in the Bexar County Jail with a sold-out gig later that night.

Ozzy talked about the incident during a interview for a British documentary.

I’ve got a bottle of Courvoisier in my hand and this green evening dress on and it's 9 o'clock in the morning. And I wanted to take a pee. So, I find this old wall and I'm standing there having a leak when this deputy marshal goes mental. He said 'There he is' and I've got my wife's green evening dress on urinating up the !@#$% Alamo.

Stone City Attractions CEO Jack Orbin, who was the promoter of the sold-out show, remembers hearing about the incident.

I remember Sharon (Osborne) calling me up and saying that Ozzy was in jail and he wasn't going to be able to play. I said 'Hell yes you are.' I went down and posted a $30 bond for public intoxication. I asked Ozzy 'What are you doing? You can't urinate on the Alamo.' And he said, 'I don't understand. What's the big deal.' I said It's like pissing in the Queen's cup. You wouldn't do that. He said, Oh, and And so I got him to his hotel and they got out of the car and somebody from the San Antonio Light ran up to him and said, 'Did you mean to urinate on the Alamo?' And he said, 'Yes. And the White House is next.'

Ozzy played his sold out show at Hemisfair Arena that night, but afterward the San Antonio City Council passed a nonbinding resolution that stated Ozzy was not welcome back to any city facility.

It wasn't until 1992, when Ozzy made an official apology and donated $10,000 to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, who at the time were the caretakers of the Alamo. During that concert tour stop at the Freeman Coliseum, it seemed that Ozzy had found forgiveness. Judge Nelson Wolff, who was mayor at the time of the incident, announced publicly that Ozzy wasn't welcome, but Ozzy said he wanted to meet with him and apologize. So Wolff agreed and went backstage to talk to him before his concert .

"So I went into the dressing room," said Wolff to WOAI back in 2015. "We had a nice visit, and he apologized for it. He had an anti-drug message at the time, which I thought was good. Then I went to his hard rock concert. I enjoyed it. I thought he was a very nice gentleman to do that."

And the rest is rock and roll history. Happy Birthday Ozzy.