Hard-rock icons like Tool, Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, and Slayer are getting ready to play the “Back To The Beginning” concert on July 5, featuring the last ever performances of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath.
However, one undisclosed band will not be making the trip to Villa Park in Birmingham, England, at the behest of Ozzy’s wife and manager, Sharon Osbourne.
In an interview with Metal Hammer, Osbourne, 72, spoke about a quarrel she got into with a manager, which led to the band’s dismissal from the bill. There is no indication of who the band in question is.
“I had a huge, huge to-do with a manager over this celebration for Ozzy and Sabbath,” Osbourne explained. “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 bulls--- lies because I threw his band off the bill.”
Metal Hammer asked if the band in question was Iron Maiden, as Osbourne has engaged in a war of words with lead singer Bruce Dickinson over the years, stemming from issues that originated from Ozzfest 2005.
“Oh god, no. Ozzy only has respect for the guys in Maiden,” said Osbourne. “And he didn’t even know what Bruce was doing [during Ozzfest]. 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.’”
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