{"id":90009,"date":"2025-07-25T00:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T00:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/90009\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T00:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T00:36:12","slug":"ozzy-osbournes-lost-interview-resurfaces-after-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/90009\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzy Osbourne’s Lost Interview Resurfaces After His Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMany, many years ago, when this reporter was just a few months into his first music industry job as the assistant editor of a now-long defunct teen heavy metal magazine called Faces, he was lucky enough to be sent to interview Ozzy Osbourne, the legendary singer, cofounder of Black Sabbath and TV star who died Tuesday <\/a>at the age of 76. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe interview was no small challenge: not only was Osbourne still deep in his wildman-of-rock-and-roll phase, the subject was the \u201cTribute\u201d album,<\/a> a live concert recording featuring Randy Rhoads, the brilliant guitarist and cowriter on Osbourne\u2019s first two solo albums, \u201cBlizzard of Ozz\u201d and \u201cDiary of a Madman,\u201d who was tragically killed in a 1982 plane crash, at the age of just 24, while the band was on tour. The album was being released on the fifth anniversary of Rhoads\u2019 death, and Osbourne was doing interviews about it.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe interview (portions of which appeared in Faces at the time) took place one day in March of 1987 at Osbourne\u2019s hotel suite at 11 a.m., after what was apparently quite a night out: He and publicist Mitchell Schneider had taken in two shows \u2014 the roots band the Radiators and legendary Southern rocker Gregg Allman, the latter of which Osbourne apparently did not enjoy and complained about several times.<\/p>\n

\n\tOsbourne emerged from his bedroom, clearly just woken up and seemingly hung over, wearing only a leopardskin-patterned bathrobe but also, curiously, loads of jewelry: two diamond rings, a gold bracelet, necklaces, and a gold top-of-the line Rolex watch, the face of which was encircled with diamonds. His robe only partially concealed the monster-face tattoo on his chest, and as he sat down, his knees poked through the robe, revealing simple smiley faces tattooed on both knees. His hair was shorter than usual, reaching to the bottom of his neck in the back but spiked slightly on top, and brownish and frosted.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the long interview that follows \u2014 which has been lightly edited for readability \u2014\u00a0Osbourne talked about Rhoads, Ozzy-less incarnations of Black Sabbath<\/a>, death threats, working with his wife Sharon, and the then-popular glam-metal movement. (One note: at one point late in the interview, Osbourne uses what can be considered a slur against the LGBTQ community; without excusing the use of the word, it was less taboo at the time than it is today.)<\/p>\n

\n\tHe was also completely on-brand: As he entered, Mitch asked, \u201cDo you need anything, Ozzy?\u201d to which he responded, \u201cA new brain!\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\tWhy is the \u201cTribute\u201d album only coming out now?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tBecause I thought it would be sick! [to release it sooner after Rhoads\u2019 death]. But I was under a contractual obligation to deliver a double-live album, and I refused to put [the live album featuring Rhoads] out because I was just\u2026didn\u2019t wanna know anything about it, so that\u2019s why we went to the Ritz [in New York] and recorded a double-live album of old Sabbath stuff [\u201cSpeak of the Devil,\u201d featuring guitarist Brad Gillis in Rhoads\u2019 role].<\/p>\n

\n\tBut this the end, everything [featuring Rhoads] that\u2019s good enough to put out is on that album (gestures to artwork proofs sitting on table). I actually didn\u2019t have much to do with the, uh, compilation of the album, I think I spent about an hour in the studio sayin\u2019, \u201cThat\u2019s a good mix\u201d and all that. I wanted it to sound live, I didn\u2019t want it to sound like a doctored fuckin\u2019 version of a live album. Live albums should sound live, y\u2019know?<\/p>\n

\t\tWas the B-side of this single (pulls out vintage 1980 single of \u201cCrazy Train\u201d b\/w \u201cYou Looking at Me Looking at You\u201d) the only track that you recorded in the studio with Randy that didn\u2019t appear on either of the studio albums?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tWow! (Looks at single incredulously) \u201cYou Lookin\u2019 at Me Lookin\u2019 at You.\u201d Originally this was gonna be on the album. It was one of those early songs that we\u2026 god, I haven\u2019t heard that for years! That sold about four copies, I think. (Sings) \u201cYou, lookin\u2019 at me, lookin\u2019 at you.\u201d (trails off)<\/p>\n

\t\tWhy does now feel like the right time to put out \u201cTribute\u201d?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tIt wasn\u2019t my idea! [Randy\u2019s mother] phoned up Sharon, because she\u2019d been so inundated with letters and phone calls about the live album, and we\u2019ve also \u2018ad a lot of mail sayin\u2019 \u201cWhen ya gonna put it out?\u201d And to be perfectly honest, it was basically Sharon and Randy\u2019s mother who got it all together. I \u2018ad no intention of puttin\u2019 it out\u2026 [but] I think it looks very good, actually. The only thing I did say to Sharon was I didn\u2019t want it to be sort of morbid. And there\u2019s a track on the album called \u201cDee Outtakes,\u201d it\u2019s an instrumental thing that [Rhoads] wrote for \u2018is mother. [The outtake] isn\u2019t brilliant or anything, it\u2019s just him gettin\u2019 that together in the studio, talkin\u2019 to [producer Max Norman], and you can hear a part where he fucks it up, and starts again. But not many [fans] ever heard \u2018im speak \u2026 because, you know, he came and he went so quickly.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere\u2019s a side of Randy that I\u2019m tryin\u2019 to show something about (picks up artwork) The reason why I put this picture of Randy in there \u2014 that was at Day on the Green [concert] in San Francisco. The reason why he liked that photo was because of the massive crowd, that was one of the first big crowds we played for, also he split \u2018is pants onstage! And that\u2019s why [his expression is like] \u201cOh no!\u201d There\u2019s a lot of photographs of \u2018im, there\u2019s a letter from his mother here, there\u2019s things that you would never normally see.<\/p>\n

\t\tHe said in interviews that he wanted to branch out musically and do something different. Did you sense that at the time?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tHis dream was to get a degree in classical music and combine classical and rock together. Whether he woulda stayed with me and done it, I don\u2019t know, but it woulda been a fabulous combination. So many of these guys can play fast, but they don\u2019t play with any \u2026 [Randy] had a lot of soul and a lot of emotion with what he was playin\u2019.<\/p>\n

\t\tWhen did you first meet him?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat happened was, I\u2019d got booted outta Sabbath [in 1979], and met up with a guy called Dana Strum, who now is the bass player with Vinnie Vincent. And Dana said, \u201cI know this amazing guitar player.\u201d And \u2018e came at some bizarre fuckin\u2019 hour, as Dana always does, he\u2019ll freak ya out at four o\u2019clock in the morning when you\u2019ve drunk 95 cans of beer and smoked 85 joints or something and you fucking wanna just die!<\/p>\n

\n\tDana says, \u201cGet up man! You gotta see this guy!\u201d And I went \u2019round to a studio, and Dana\u2019s virtually holdin\u2019 my eyes open, y\u2019know, \u201cListen!\u201d And this lit\u2019le tiny guy came in \u2014 and one of the first things I asked him was, \u201cThis guy looks like \u2018e\u2019s a fuckin drug addict or somethin, he\u2019s so skinny\u201d [Rhoads wasn\u2019t] But then I heard \u2018im play and it was just amazing. It all just fell into place. And I flew \u2018im to England and then we shacked up with [bassist] Bob Daisley and started from there.<\/p>\n

\t\tI heard that you hired him after hearing him play for two minutes.\t<\/p>\n

\n\tYeah, that\u2019s true. I instantly spotted the fact that the guy was different, and \u2018e was very good! And he looked the part \u2014 he reminded me of [David Bowie\u2019s \u201cZiggy Stardust\u201d-era guitarist] Mick Ronson a lot. And then we auditioned for Lee Kerslake, we went through about 900 fucking drummers, drummers are always a pain in the ass to find. So we found Lee about two weeks before we went into the studio.<\/p>\n

\t\tBoth albums were recorded with that lineup, right?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tYeah.<\/p>\n

\t\tWhy did Daisley and Kerslake leave?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was kind of a situation where I knew we had to do a lot of work, and I didn\u2019t want any complaints and anybody in the camp to start fuckin\u2019 moaning and gettin\u2019 \u2026to be honest with you, I can\u2019t really remember what \u2018appened! I think it was we had two shows at the Palladium [in New York], and they were moaning that we had two shows or something. And just I said, \u201cFuck this, I want guys just to fuckin\u2019 play!,\u201d considerin\u2019 I was just startin\u2019 up again. Plus the fact that it wasn\u2019t a good-looking band either, it didn\u2019t look too cool. Bob\u2019s playin\u2019 on the new Sabbath album, you know.<\/p>\n

\t\tIs he really? What do you think about the newer Sabbath stuff?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI don\u2019t know anything about them anymore. I\u2019m not puttin\u2019 \u2018em down or anything, I just don\u2019t know anything about them. Don\u2019t know where they are, what they\u2019re doin\u2019, or anything.<\/p>\n

\t\tHow did Randy react to the circus atmosphere of the \u201982 tour, after the bat incident?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tHe didn\u2019t get offended by anything, he was just\u2026 I mean, [drummer] Tommy [Aldridge] used to shit every time we used to do the final bow at the end of the night \u2014\u00a0this is with all the fuckin\u2019 big lumps of meat and liver and snakes being thrown onstage every night. Tommy would be like \u201cFor fuck\u2019s sake, let\u2019s get out of here!\u201d and I\u2019d purposely hold him down for a long time while we were bowing (gestures).<\/p>\n

\n\tThat was the bizarre-est tour that I\u2019ve ever done \u2014 the \u201cDiary of a Madman\u201d tour, where we [mock-] hung the midget and all that, that was fuckin\u2019 insane! It was like, \u201cBring your own meat,\u201d \u2019cause instead of a custard pie fight, we\u2019d throw meat out to the audience, y\u2019know. You\u2019d throw out one bucketful and about eight tons of it would come back. But it was different, it was exciting, and the kids were great. You always get one guy that throws some fuckin\u2019 object up there but you don\u2019t really wanna look \u2014\u00a0somebody threw up a big marsh frog one night!<\/p>\n

\t\tIs that how the bat ended up onstage?\t<\/p>\n

\n\teah yeah yeah. It seems like yesterday. Y\u2019know somebody said to me yesterday, \u201cIt was five years ago,\u201d and I thought, Fuckin\u2019 \u2018ell!<\/p>\n

\t\tOkay, here\u2019s where it gets rough. What exactly happened with the plane crash?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tUh, as far as I know, \u2019cause I was sleeping on the bus with my wife, we\u2019d done a show in Knoxville, Tennessee, and we were driving to do a festival with Foreigner. And the bus driver had to stop and pick up some parts from a bus depot on the way, somewhere in Florida near Orlando. The depot was a big place with a private airstrip, and the guy had been driving all night. He was obviously a bit not all-there from driving [unintelligible]. And \u2018e took them up in the private plane to take an aerial shot of the bus, and obviously he must have made a big error and fuckin\u2019 flew the plane into the bus. And then the plane careered into a big house that was behind the bus and burst into flames.<\/p>\n

\t\tThere were some reports, I don\u2019t know if this is true, that you had had an argument beforehand?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tWith \u2018oo?<\/p>\n

\t\tWith Randy.\t<\/p>\n

\n\t[Incredulous] No, no, no, not at all.<\/p>\n

\t\tAnd the first gig after that was Madison Square Garden two weeks later, with guitarist Bernie Torme?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tYeah, that was another memorable gig, \u2019cause the kids knew what the deal was, and they carried me through. Bernie was scared, but the kids were great.<\/p>\n

\n\tI had thought \u201cThis is it, it\u2019s all over now, we can\u2019t go on.\u201d And my wife just said, \u201cDon\u2019t talk so stupid. \u2018E [Rhoads] wouldn\u2019t like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\tJust to finish this part up, how would you like Randy to be remembered?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThe thing is, there\u2019s a side of Randy that nobody knew about. He was a very dedicated guitar player, he was a teacher, before \u2018e played with me. And he was just a real sweet man, but he was also a very funny man. When he\u2019d had a few drinks \u2018e was hysterical. I can remember one time we were staying in a hotel, and there was a guy playing classical piano. Randy went up to \u2018is room and came back down with \u2018is guitar and one of those little Pignose amplifiers. He plugged it in at the bar and started playing along on the guitar, but doin\u2019 all the heavy metal guitar moves. Hysterical!<\/p>\n

\t\tYou wrote a letter to People magazine recently criticizing their coverage of John Lennon\u2019s assassin, Mark David Chapman. How do you deal with the death threats that you get?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI don\u2019t read \u2019em. If they\u2019re off-the-wall you just throw them in the trash. I\u2019ve had police chiefs and various authority people say like, \u201cY\u2019know, we\u2019ve had a death threat; somebody\u2019s said they overheard somebody saying that they\u2019re gonna fuckin\u2019 shoot you, or something.\u201d You kind of have to build a switch inside you that switches yourself off to the fear, y\u2019know? You can\u2019t go around thinking\u2026 I mean, these people that wrote these fucking sensationalistic articles don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to live under threat. I had the police chief of Tyler, Texas, phone up on the last tour and say, \u201cListen, I\u2019ve heard from a very good source that there\u2019s gonna be trouble at the show. I can\u2019t guarantee the safety of Ozzy if \u2018e comes to town.\u201d So we never went.<\/p>\n

\t\tDo you still get bothered by Christian protesters?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tOh yeah! Especially down in the South. Not so much around New York or L.A. Most of \u2019em are down in the Southern belt. The last show I did on the tour, I was sitting in a coffee shop and a bunch of Jimmy Swaggert fans or something came inside hoo-hahin\u2019 and hallelujah and all that. But they talk about me being sick, and then this evangelist guy [Oral Roberts<\/a>] got on the fuckin\u2019 television and said, \u201cIf I don\u2019t get eight million dollars by March I\u2019m gonna die.\u201d People buy that shit? (Shakes his head then laughs) I should put a thing out and say, \u201cIf I don\u2019t get $200 million by August I\u2019m gonna live!\u201d (laughter)<\/p>\n

\t\tYou did an interview last year in the New Musical Express around the time of the Castle Donington festival last year where it sounded like you\u2019d absolutely had it with touring and your image and heavy metal.\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI was in a real depressing stage at that thing. Earlier on in the I\u2019d gone to Japan and come up with this fuckin\u2019 awful virus that I couldn\u2019t shake off, y\u2019know, and I\u2019m goin\u2019 to the doctor for antibiotics and decongestant pills and inhalants and vaporizers. And I thought maybe it\u2019s time for me to quit. My shows weren\u2019t goin\u2019 too well, I wasn\u2019t singin\u2019 too well, and then I cut the tour short, as it happens.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd I got bogged down with depression, and I thought \u201cOh fuck this. It\u2019s all over. I\u2019m not gonna do it anymore.\u201d But then just recently I did a benefit show with the band in Los Angeles for the homeless, and I got up there and just played, and this fuckin\u2019 great feeling \u2014 it was there again. And I\u2019ve since then decided that I\u2019m not gonna go on the road for nine months ever again \u2014 three or four at the most. I\u2019ve been doin\u2019 it for 19 years and I can\u2019t do the things that I used to do anymore. I\u2019ve gotta work at a more easier pace, slow down a little. If I can\u2019t give them my best shot, then I feel like I\u2019ve cheated. Only my best is good enough. I see these fuckin\u2019 bands from the Woodstock era and they sing their one all-time hit and they barely even move, and you think, \u201cWhat the fuck is he tryin\u2019 to do?\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\tDon\u2019t you ever feel that way when you\u2019re playing \u201cParanoid\u201d?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tNo, because I play it like I\u2019m fuckin\u2019 enjoyin\u2019 it! I mean, \u201cParanoid\u201d is one song, but there\u2019s a lot of other songs in my set that have been hits. It\u2019s like fuckin\u2019 \u201cSing Along with Ozzy!\u201d at my shows. As long as you are enjoying what you\u2019re doing \u2014 can you imagine me just standin\u2019 there going (mumbles opening lyric from \u201cParanoid\u201d), \u201cFinished with my\u2026\u201d (trails off) As long as you look like you\u2019re alive!<\/p>\n

\t\tYou kind of disappeared for a while after the last tour.\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI just took off. At the end of the tour I was so depressed, so fucked up, and so disappointed with myself. I just wanted time to myself. So I just travelled around America and Canada, just on my own. I just didn\u2019t wanna see anybody, and I didn\u2019t go to fuckin\u2019 Tibet, like everybody said, and shave my head bald, and I didn\u2019t have an affair with fuckin\u2019 Stevie Nicks as somebody else reported!<\/p>\n

\n\tIf I\u2019d\u2019ve gone home, I know what it would\u2019ve been: \u201cOh Ozzy, I forgot to mention it, but we have to wrap up by doin\u2019 these TV interviews and these 15 in-stores,\u201d and all this, and I just didn\u2019t wanna do anything! I wanted to just get sane again, \u2019cause tours send me fuckin\u2019 crazy. I have to have a security guy with me \u2014 as I must, because of these fuckin\u2019 \u2018eadcases \u2014 and you feel like a prisoner of your own success, when you\u2019re on the road. Because you go under a different name, and you can\u2019t sit in a coffee shop without some fuckin\u2019 waitress slipping a tablemat under you sayin\u2019 \u201cPlease sign this.\u201d I was just tired of living like that, y\u2019know. So I changed my look \u2014\u00a0collar and tie and suit. There was a report that said they saw me in a coffee shop in California and I resembled an insurance salesman more than the wild man of rock and roll. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\tIs it true that Sharon asked radio stations to keep an eye out for you?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI don\u2019t know. [Unintelligible] fucked up. I don\u2019t know where they got the photograph with the bald head from! But people like fuckin\u2019 intrigue, though, don\u2019t they?<\/p>\n

\t\tHow are your kids?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tLovely!<\/p>\n

\t\tHow many do you have?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tWith Sharon, three, but I have two from my ex-wife, and one adopted son from my ex-wife.<\/p>\n

\t\tWhen did you last see them?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThey were out in California about a week ago. I\u2019m going home tomorrow! (Looks heavenward.) After a year! I \u2018aven\u2019t been home for a year, apart from a fleeting visit now and again.<\/p>\n

\t\tDon\u2019t you and Sharon ever get on each other\u2019s nerves?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tAll the time! We have some real screaming fights from down here [unintelligible], sometimes we end up exchanging a few blows, but that\u2019s the way it goes.<\/p>\n

\t\tIs it hard having her as your manager?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI wouldn\u2019t have it any other way. It\u2019s really funny, I was sayin\u2019 this to her on the phone last night \u2014 when we\u2019re with each other, we sometimes get on each others\u2019 case, but as soon as we\u2019re separate, it\u2019s like a big part of my life\u2019s gone, it\u2019s like my life stops. I don\u2019t know what to do with myself! She\u2019s a great person, she\u2019s a great mother too. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\tWhen did you first meet Sharon?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI met her when she used to work for her father as a receptionist, many many years ago. And I always had a secret admiration for her, from a distance, for a long time. She\u2019s had to carry around a lot of\u2026she\u2019s had to fight to get where she\u2019s gotten in her career, because her father has got such a bad [reputation] , you know, [the notoriously tough and threatening British artist manager] Don Arden. She\u2019s had to really live through that, y\u2019know. She\u2019s a very honest woman, she\u2019s a very hard-working woman.<\/p>\n

\t\tDoes the image you put across ever feel limiting?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tWell, the only thing that feels limiting is the fact that if I wanted to branch out in a different area \u2014\u00a0like, when I put out [the ballads] \u201cGoodbye to Romance\u201d or \u201cSo Tired,\u201d they would still be put on the heavy metal rack. That was not heavy at all, and [radio] wouldn\u2019t play it because it was classed as heavy metal.<\/p>\n

\t\tIs there anything you\u2019re listening to now that you really like?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI like a bit of variety in music. My record of \u201986 was \u201cSo\u201d by Peter Gabriel, I played the fuck out of that, that was incredible. And I wasn\u2019t a Peter Gabriel fan before that. And I quite like that, uh\u2026 [to Mitch], what\u2019re they called? It\u2019s kinda disco\u2026<\/p>\n

\n\tMitch Schneider<\/strong>: INXS?<\/p>\n

\n\tINXS, yeah. Played that for awhile.<\/p>\n

\t\tAny metal bands?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI don\u2019t listen to too much other metal bands because I think a lot of \u2019em sound so fuckin\u2019 stereotyped, so much, like the 95th version of Ronnie James Dio. They\u2019ve got a radio station in Los Angeles called KNAC that plays nothing but metal, and it don\u2019t half wear ya down, y\u2019know, when everybody sounds like Rob Halford or Ronnie Dio.<\/p>\n

\t\tDo you like any of the speed metal bands?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tYeah, I really like Metallica. I\u2019m not really jammed up on speed metal at all, but I did a tour with Metallica. It\u2019s like a faster version of Sabbath \u2014\u00a0early Sabbath, y\u2019know, the way they look, walk around is just like that as well.<\/p>\n

\t\tIt\u2019s very punk, too.\t<\/p>\n

\n\tWell, it\u2019s combination of new metal and punk, this thrash metal is like, \u201cFuck you!\u201d Because as soon as something starts to work, it gets capitalized by the industry, and when it gets capitalized, it gets fucked.<\/p>\n

\n\tI mean, I was lookin\u2019 through, what was it, Metal Edge [magazine] yesterday. The guys look more like chicks now! It was like a fuckin\u2019 drag magazine! Eh \u2014 what\u2019s this fuckin\u2019 band Poison or something? What\u2019s this about? (Laughter)<\/p>\n

\t\tI knew it!\t<\/p>\n

\n\t(Ozzy begins flipping quickly through magazine) I said to my wife yesterday, there\u2019s a great new band \u2014\u00a0and I swear to God that it was totally accidental, like, and I didn\u2019t mean it at all to be a knock \u2014 but I thought they were four chicks! I swear to God! I said, \u201cSharon, there\u2019s a great-lookin\u2019 new chick band out now: Poison.\u201d She said, \u201cWhat are you talkin\u2019 about? They\u2019re fuckin\u2019 guys!\u201d And I swear that was a pure, innocent accident. I\u2019ve gotta find this fuckin\u2019 photo in one of these magazines. It\u2019s incredible!<\/p>\n

\t\tBut Ozzy, everybody\u2019s doing that now! Even the guys in your band look kinda like that!\t<\/p>\n

\n\tYou\u2019ve gotta see this fucking photo! (Points to picture of himself in the magazine) Now, does that look like a chick?<\/p>\n

\t\t(Laughing) No, it doesn\u2019t.\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019ve gotta fucking find this (Looking frantically through magazine, sees different photo of himself with Alice Cooper.) Now me and old Alice here, we don\u2019t look like fuckin\u2019 chicks. (Sees photo of Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi wearing eyeliner.) Even Iommi wears eye makeup now! Fuckin\u2019 \u2018ell, what\u2019s happenin\u2019? And never, ever before! We\u2019ve all turned into fuckin\u2019 raving \u2018omos! (He turns page and lands on photo of Poison.)<\/p>\n

\t\tAll: There they are!\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s it! I even fancied the fuckin\u2019 lead singer! (More hilarity)<\/p>\n

\n\tMitch: <\/strong>Well, I hate to break this up, but the next interviewer is here. Ozzy, Sharon just called, if you wanna call her back?<\/p>\n

\n\tOkay. (long pause) What the fuck was I doin\u2019 listenin\u2019 to fuckin\u2019 Gregg Allman last night? Like I\u2019m still in a fuckin\u2019 mystery over that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many, many years ago, when this reporter was just a few months into his first music industry job…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":90010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[33111,171,975,16513,34034,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-90009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-black-sabbath","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-ozzy-osbourne","12":"tag-sharon-osbourne","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114911077367162734","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}