{"id":393408,"date":"2025-09-03T02:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T02:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/393408\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T02:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T02:11:15","slug":"roger-waters-ridicules-ozzy-osbourne-and-black-sabbaths-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/393408\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Waters ridicules Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s music"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ozzy<\/p>\n

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Tue 2 September 2025 21:36, UK <\/p>\n

In a recent interview, former Pink Floyd leader Roger Waters<\/a> has revealed that he was never a fan of heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne.<\/p>\n

This comes after various artists have paid tributes to \u2018The Prince of Darkness\u2019 following his tragic passing. While plenty of artists have come out of their woodwork to pay their respects, Waters has said that he never cared for Osbourne\u2019s music or any of the material that he made with Black Sabbath.<\/p>\n

When discussing the influence that music has over people, Waters brought up Osbourne\u2019s condition around the time of his death, saying to The Independent Ink,<\/a> \u201cOzzy Osbourne, who just died, bless him in his whatever that state that he was in his whole life. We\u2019ll never know. The music, I have no idea. I couldn\u2019t give a fuck.\u201d Waters would go on to air his the \u201cidiocy\u201d that Osbourne showed when working on the reality show, The Osbournes.<\/p>\n

The former Floyd frontman also had some choice words for Black Sabbath\u2019s music as well, saying, \u201cI don\u2019t care about Black Sabbath, I never did. Have no interest in biting the heads of chickens or whatever they do. I couldn\u2019t care less, you know.\u201d However, the reference to biting heads off of animals comes from Osbourne\u2019s solo career, where he infamously bit the head off of a dove during a business meeting and erroneously bit the head off of a bat, thinking that it was a Halloween toy. <\/p>\n

Despite the critique, Osbourne had been a major Pink Floyd fan all of his life, even ranking \u2018Money\u2019 as one of his all-time favourite rock songs. In a further interview, Osbourne praised the soundtrack album Obscured By Clouds, even going so far as to say that the prog-rock juggernauts never made a bad album.<\/p>\n

Then again, Waters has made his opinion known about Black Sabbath in the past as well. When first reviewing their debut single, \u2018Evil Woman\u2019, in 1970, Waters was quick to dismiss it at the time as well, saying it left him \u201cspeechless<\/a>\u201d for how underwhelming it was on first listen.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Osbourne\u2019s status as a rock and roll titan is already secured, having been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for both Sabbath and his solo career and becoming a mainstay in pop culture for years. He had also wrapped up his final show at the time of his death, appearing at the Back to the Beginning alongside his Sabbath bandmates, where he was surrounded by fellow luminaries of hard rock.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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