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With Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler recently sharing their regrets that Black Sabbath‘s retirement came without a final show featuring Bill Ward, the estranged Sabbath drummer has now publicly addressed speculation about a potential one-off reunion. Ward was initially on board to be part of Black Sabbath’s 2010s reunion, but bowed out before touring and recording took place over a contractual dispute. The remaining three original members went on to record the 13 album with Rage Against the Machine’s Brad Wilk on drums and Ozzy Osbourne’s solo band drummer Tommy Clufetos handling the drumming ...
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Michael Anthony has detailed a memorable – and bizarre – early touring experience, when he watched Ozzy Osbourne light his Black Sabbath bandmate Bill Ward on fire. It was 1978 when Van Halen, then one of rock’s fastest rising acts, was touring with Black Sabbath. “We had the best time opening up for Black Sabbath,” Anthony recalled during a recent conversation with Sirius XM’s Eddie Trunk. “We came out like gangbusters every night.” By all accounts, Osbourne’s group was in rough shape at the time due to alcohol and drug abuse, but Anthony noted that the metal legends “still knew how to have f...
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Ozzy Osbourne got so high on drugs he thought he was swimming in the sea when he was still on the beach. The Black Sabbath frontman, 74, whose battle with drink and drug addiction started in the 1970s, had the psychedelic experience when he swallowed pills with bandmate Geezer Butler, 73, on a break from recording one of their albums. Bassist and Black Sabbath lyricist Geezer said in his memoir ‘Into the Void – From Birth to Black Sabbath and Beyond’: “A girl called Carol offered me and Ozzy something called psilocybin. We, of course, accepted. “I was seeing skeletons. Ozzy thought he was swim...
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Black Sabbath star Geezer Butler had to cut out "at least 50 pages" from his memoirs for legal reasons. The 73-year-old rocker is best known for being part of the heavy metal band alongside Tony Iommi, Bill Ward and Ozzy Osbourne and explained that when writing his memoir 'Into the Void' - which is due to be released on June 6 - that the "original manuscript was deemed unsuitable for modern readers" and he was forced to omit some of its content when lawyers descended upon the publishing house. He told The Sunday Times: "At least 50 pages of them [had to go]! I had this whole thing back from th...
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Ozzy Osbourne has ruled out doing anymore Black Sabbath shows.The 71-year-old frontman has insisted that when the 'Paranoid' rockers played their farewell show at Birmingham's Genting Arena in 2017, that marked the end of the band for him.However, Ozzy admitted he regrets not getting to play one last time with drummer Bill Ward.He told Rolling Stone magazine when asked about a reunion: "Not for me. It's done."The only thing I do regret is not doing the last farewell show in Birmingham with Bill Ward. I felt really bad about that. It would have been so nice. I don't know what the circumstances ...
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