Sam Kelton of News Corp Australia Network spoke with Ozzy Osbourne. Excerpts from the interview appear below.
News Corp Australia Network: Ozzy, this is the final Black Sabbath tour — it’s a dark day for the fans …
Ozzy Osbourne: It’s the end of Sabbath and people have been asking “Well, I thought you were doing an album.” But the things we’ve discovered are — number one: People aren’t really interested in hearing new stuff and number two: If we were to do an album before the tour — it would take three or four years to complete the album. We want to end it on a high note.
News Corp Australia Network: It’s not the end for you though?
Ozzy Osbourne: Well I did pretty well for 35 years — and I’m not retiring. I’m going to do a solo album and a solo tour. I mean my wife’s a shop-a-holic always off buying f—g shoes or something so I’ve got to keep the money coming somehow.
News Corp Australia Network: How do you see the Black Sabbath legacy and how will you manage it?
Ozzy Osbourne: Just to be remembered is enough for me. I thought no one would remember me when we first started playing music. I’d rather end it now though than drag it out for another five albums. I mean I’m 67 in December. When we started out I thought — this thing will be all right for a year or two. One of my greatest memories of anything Sabbath was that we were a band that weren’t created by some London f—ing business d—head. We were four guys in different bands and we all got together and made a record. I remember being in a pub in Birmingham and the manager at the time said to me “I have some news for you — your album is entering the British charts at number 17 next week” I went “f — off you’re winding me up.” It remained in the top ten for over a year and none of us have looked back since.
News Corp Australia Network: What’s going on with the drumming situation given the issues with original drummer Bill Ward?
Ozzy Osbourne: It’s nearly Black Sabbath. Every time I talk about him I get into trouble — so I don’t know — I don’t think so.
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source: news.com.au
33 Responses
Cool, you see that James, Ozzy still remembers how old he is, LOL!!!
He was seeing it on a teleprompter.
LMAO!
Makes sense.
If it’s an Ozzy solo album, he doesn’t have to put any work into it, and he gets all the money anyway, whereas a Sabbath record would mean Geezer and Tony unfairly demanding to be paid for songs they created. How unreasonable is that?
I’d rather hear a Born Again reunion record or Tony do something with Glenn Hughes.
That Schlick is tired as Bill’s whining and his shoulders.
Guess I’ll have to consult you before I post from now on.
…only when it comes to anything Sabbath, Van Halen, or KISS. I think the group at Trunk Nation would appreciate that.
Creatures v. Destroyer?
DR, only 49! I mentioned Gloria Jones (“Tainted Love’s”) original artist/writer because I thought Soft Cell would be too easy, and too obvious! Soft Cell’s version back in ’82 made the song more popular, amazing though even to this day how many people don’t know it was a remake, albeit a good one! Plus I also thought that maybe our buddy Shannon might be trying to trick us and throw us a curve ball, you know that crazy clown, LOL! 😉
Doug R, you sly dog you, I never in a gazillion years would’ve accessed that information. Your gold stars are reinstated. To my colleague DR Is Live: Destroyer, Creatures is a second rate imitation. The proof’s in the pudding: Peter played his freaking ass off on that record.
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Thanks Shannon, you’re welcome! But I was in a hurry YESterday and forgot to mention that “Tainted Love” was actually written by Ed Cobb, just FYI. Anyway, I agree with DESTROYER! Creatures is a great album, but come on, no contest! DESTROYER is a masterpiece, as is FRAGILE from Yes, completely different album than DESTROYER of course, but both are masterpieces in their own right, right Shannon? 😉
Shannon – Creatures is one of the most underrated albums in the history of rock music. However Destroyer still is the original gold standard for KISS albums. So I’ll yield to you on that one. Bob Kulick was amazing on that record – and the piano undertones throughout the album were sheer production brilliance.
Lol..Bob Kulick? He doesn’t play on Destroyer DR, you know this right? Are you just messing with me again? Dick Wagner plays the main solo in Sweet Pain, as well as the underlying acoustic strums, he plays acoustic in Beth, and those leads in Flaming Youth as the song fades out. Ace played the main solo in Flaming Youth and composed some brilliant leads on that record, Shout it Out Loud sounds like some big band horn player. That is, when he bothered to show up.
Ummm, did anybody notice this is an OZZY story? Taking a page from Doug R.’s playbook, it seems this discussion went off the rails on a KISS krazy train.
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DR, I found out Kiss had a new record coming out via 16 magazine, because at that point, Kiss was like cool repellent, no respectable rock mag would touch Kiss, Hit Parader had relegated Kiss news to tiny little blurbs in their “Hard Rock Happenings” section, and they thought Kiss was getting Michael Jackson from the the Jacksons to produce their next record. (Imagine my horror at reading this, because after their forays into disco (of which Doug R is still in some deep denial)), this was a somewhat plausible proposition.
So, through !6, I find out Kiss has a new record called Creatures of the Night coming out, I call the record store to find out the exact release date, and on that day I take the bus to the record store downtown, and wait for it to open so I can get this new Kiss record no one cares about. What were you doing DR? Huh? Were you that dedicated? In other words, HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW?
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DR, did you notice the maracas in Shout it Out Loud?
Shannon, it was ONE F’N SONG DUDE!! And besides, IWMFLY (IMO) (obviously) is NOT a disco song! I don’t care what Paul himself says! Thanks Dana, I think we’re all going off the rails, LOL!!! Goodnight. 😉
What about my needs?
Wait a minute, see Shannon, now you got me in trouble with our moderator, Dana! Dana, it’s Shannon’s fault this time, he brought up Kiss, wait, let me check, oh sh-t, nope, sorry Shannon, it was DR this time, he started this mess, LOL! But we’re still going off the rails on a “Crazy CLOWN Train,” LOL!!! Now I have to go to sleep, I hope! 😉
I’d love to hear another Iommi / Hughes album.
Then, maybe a tour. How about a tour where they play material from Seventh Star, DEP Sessions, and Fused, and maybe a couple Purple Mk III & IV songs with some stuff from Iommi’s self titled solo album.
Clown, I bought Creatures of the Night at an old record store in Polo Park Mall in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. I remember it like it was yesterday. And I bought both the LP and the cassette. I went home, put it on and was mesmerized. ‘Finally…..’ I thought to myself. There is not a bad second on that album. I was a Circus/Hit Parader/Metal Edge kinda guy (in that order). I had a friend who bought 16 Magazine, I couldn’t get myself to do it. Felt like it was against the code. But I’m not judging. BTW Flaming Youth is the best song on Destroyer…always has been my favorite. Sweet Pain is another classic that never got the credit it deserved. I’ve never heard that song live. KISS has so many songs from classic era that they should play live (much like Priest). And Bob Kulick was everywhere…whether you knew it or not!
DR, I read 16 in the store, and besides, the same people who wrote and ran 16 also ran Creem, they were just a bunch of party animals anyway. 16’s acuity concerning Kiss’s music was surprisingly sharp sometimes.
DR, you can’t tell the difference btwn Ace and Bob Kulick? Neither do you produce any evidence, or an example of this secret Bob Kulick on a Kiss record. I can tell the difference btwn them, Ace and Tommy, that’s another story.
Amen to that. That voice makes those lyrics great. What is ON THE WATERFRONT without Brando? Some forgetable anti-labor union nonsense that nobody ever would have heard of. Ozzy is the Marlon Brando of hard rock singing. The original and always the best. I’ll go one further, Ozzy Osbourne is the Babe Ruth of heavy metal. Like it or not. Ozzy is the George Washington of heavy metal. Ozzy is the avatar of heavy metal. All these guys that begrudge Ozzy and those other 2 guys in KISS need therapy. Their business practices may seem unfair but who the hell cares about Bob Daisley and Jake E. Lee and Peter Criss? What do these guys want? Money, that’s what they want. Call it respect, call it acknowledgement? I call it the desire for a bigger paydate for something that they were already paid for.
I made like $10 a week dropping off newspapers in 1982. Now people have routes making $400.00 a week. The DAILY NEWS has money. Should they give THE RICHMAN, excuse me MIKE MONET $390.00 difference over a year plus $20,000.00 cause I spread their message about? Come on. It is ridiculous. Everyone on this site wants to be a civil attorney for has beens looking for handouts. You know what OZZY, Gene and Paul? Take all of the money. Buy needless stuff with it while everyone else starves. Enough whining. Go do a car insurance commercial. Join Ringo Starr’s All Star Band. Go on THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF GUYS WHO SQUANDERED ALL THEIR MONEY ON DOPE AND HOOKERS AND NOW WANT MORE MONEY.
Michael ‘Richman’ Monet is the General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. of posting on eddietrunk.com.
I’ll have what he’s having-LOL! 😉
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lmfao,3-4 years for a new record,really??????if it takes that long to record a record,then these guys should be looking for a new line of work anyhow,wtf..
Title of posting should read, “Sharon Osbourne SAYS THAT PEOPLE AREN’T INTERESTED IN NEW BLACK SABBATH MUSIC AND CONFIRMS THAT HE WILL BE DOING ANOTHER SOLO ALBUM. Pitiful Ozzy’s legacy is ending like KISS, a carnival act.
Title should say “Sharon says she can make more money from an Ozzy record than a new Sabbath record, so that’s why “13” will be the final record”.