Don’t mess with Sharon Osbourne: Dumps band from Ozzy farewell, took r | Music | Entertainment | EUROtoday

Woe betide anybody who messes with Sharon Osbourne’s household or enterprise, and that features the lead singer of one of many greatest bands on the earth.

She has been fiercely defending hubby Ozzy’s pursuits since they began relationship in 1979. He’d been dropped as lead singer of Black Sabbath by their supervisor Don Arden, who was additionally her father. Everybody had written him off (together with himself), however she masterminded a spectacular solo profession, after which launched a game-changing rock and heavy steel competition and tour, Ozzfest.

As Black Sabbath and an more and more frail Ozzy put together to for one final farewell hurrah, supported by a dizzying array of fellow legends at Villa Park in Birmingham on July 5, Sharon has revealed that she is not any much less formidable at 72 than she ever was. As the band who she booted from the line-up simply discovered.

She additionally set the report straight on the fantastically messy revenge she wreaked on an enormous band behind Ozzy’s again…

Back in 2005, throughout a number of exhibits, Iron Maiden had been supporting Ozzy who had reunited with Black Sabbath to headline Ozzfest. Unbeknown to Ozzy, Maiden’s lead singer Bruce Dickinson stored making disparaging remarks about his to the crowds.

It’s gone down in legend how Sharon pulled the facility on Maiden 3 times and had him pelted with eggs and now she has spoken to Metal hammer to elucidate exactly what occurred.

Sharon stated: “If you’re going to take Ozzy’s money, and play before him every night of a festival, and you’re bad-mouthing him to the crowd, you’ve got to pay. So I had him pelted with cans of baked beans that were open, and cut his sound.”

When rumours started circulating that Sharon had dropped a band from this July’s present, many suspected the Maiden feud had flared up once more however she clarified: “Oh god, no. Ozzy only has respect for the guys in Maiden. And he didn’t even know what Bruce was doing. I never told him, until the night that it happened when it was the last show, and he just looked at me and goes, ‘You’re terrible!'”

The full July 5 line-up has now been confirmed and contains Iron Maiden, Metallica, Guns ‘N Roses, Pantera, Fred Durst, Steven Tyler and lots of extra. There’d been hypothesis that Tool had been dropped, however the band is on the record.

So who’s it? Sharon solely had this to say: “I had a huge, huge to-do with a manager over this celebration for Ozzy and Sabbath. And it was probably the worst way I’ve felt in years. And I don’t care what this person says about me, thinks about it, because he doesn’t know me. And he’s now going around making up bullsh** lies because I threw his band off the bill.

“I don’t care what individuals say. Because, are you aware what? I don’t love them. I care about individuals who love me, what they are saying about me. You can’t care what an business says, since you don’t love them, so how can it harm you? It doesn’t.”

ORIGINAL SHARON OSBOURNE INTERVIEW IN METAL HAMMER