Ozzy Osbourne Speaks Out On Iron Maiden Beef

terrybezer / News, Uncategorized / 29/07/2010 16:51pm

The Double O lays into Bruce Dickinson over the now infamous US Ozzfest dispute in 2005. Get tickets for Ozzfest UK here!

It may have happened five years ago but following the now infamous egging incident, Ozzy Osbourne has broken his silence on the whole situation to The Quietus. Read the full interview here!

In 2005 your wife Sharon allegedly arranged eggs to be thrown at Iron Maiden while they played at the Ozzfest, supposedly because Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson had made some comments on stage that she disliked. What’s your take on that?

OO: You know what? Unbeknown to me, every night he was going on stage slagging me off. And that wasn’t fair. If he didn’t like the fuckin’ tour, he should have said “I’m jumping [off] the fuckin’ tour”, but to go on stage and fuckin’ slag me off for no reason… I’d never said a fuckin’ bad thing to him. The bass player [Steve Harris] came round at the last gig and said “I’m sorry about Bruce” and I’m like, “What the fuck are you talking about?” Nobody had told me, you know. I said, “You know what? I don’t understand what the fuck you’re talking about here.”

And so, I mean, Sharon got pissed off… it was nothing to do with me. I suppose Sharon got pissed off. I’ll back my wife up to the hilt, but I didn’t know what was going down. But you know what? [Maiden were getting] a few fuckin’ quid out of that Ozzfest. If you’ve got something to talk to me about, be a man. Come to my face and say, “I think you’re a fuckin’ asshole.” Don’t be a fuckin’ idiot. It’s so pathetically childish.

Unfortunately the rest of the band had to suffer: I suppose they were pissed off with him. But it’s wrong: I’ve never, ever, ever spoken to the guy… no, I tell a lie, one night they were about to go on stage and I didn’t know anything was going down, and I said to them, “Have a good show, guys.” But I don’t like all that shit going down. If you don’t like me, just say “I don’t like you, I’m doing this festival but I think you’re a cunt.” That’s all right. But to go on my stage and start slagging me off – that ain’t fair. They weren’t fucking slagging me off when they got paid every fucking night.

It was disappointing to see the two biggest British metal bands in disagreement.

OO: To this day I don’t understand what the fuckin’ beef was. I just don’t get it. To go on the Ozzfest and slag [people] off, that’s crazy. I really think he needs a fuckin’ psychiatrist if he does that, he’s fucking nuts. It’s an irresponsible fuckin’ thing to do. Sharon must have got pissed off with this cunt, you know.

Ozzy Osbourne will headline a one-day feast of metal at this year’s Ozzfest festival at the o2 on September 18th. Also on the bill will be Korn, The Murderdolls, Skindred and Steel Panther with a full second stage to also be revealed. There will also be a Village of the Damned taking over the o2 with a funfair, tattooists and all manner of metal-orientated stalls. Get tickets for Ozzfest UK here!

30 Comments


I’m not surprised. Bruce Dickhead has always been up himself- nice of Steve Harris to apologise though. Ozzy as a vocalist and person comes across as more interesting and genuine.

Am I the only person left who just doesnt give a damn about what musicians do or say off stage. Just do what you do best and play music FFS.

When two musicians slag each other off they generally both end up looking like tossers.

Both Ozzy and Bruce should realise that they both have a large number of fans who are also fans of the other and to come out slagging each other off is just as disrespectful to the fans as it is to the other artist. If i pay good money to see Iron Maiden i dont want to have Bruce telling me how he doesnt like Ozzy and vice versa.

Either make up or shut up.

Ooh! Let’s have an Ozzy versus Maiden poll!

Bagsy vote first for Maiden

The fact that it was down to Sharon and Ozzy claims to know nothing says it all….

nailmann

i like both these guys. dont care if they hate each other.. just a shame theyll probably never share the stage together..

If i remember correctly, this all started ‘cos Bruce was saying how he was glad he wasn’t the sort of bloke who would end up being more famous for a documentry than his band. But all that the egotistical f**kwit that is Sharon Osbourne achieved by organising fellow f**kwits to egg the biggest metal band on the planet whilst performing was to almost ruin the day for 70,000 paying punters. Unfortunately, Ozzy is probably quite right in saying he didn’t have a clue what was going on…

“Either make up or shut up.”

This!!!

Basically what Reed said.

devilstoy668

Love Maiden and Ozzy but cant stand Sharon…but anyone think this is all to do with publicity for new albums and various festivals??? Smells a bit funny this all starts again after 5 years….

Sharon = money grabbing stupid bitch.

You know if someone is saying bad things about you be a man and stop crying about it. Whether Ozzy knew about it or not just get over it. If people would talk instead of just ignoring the issue things would get solved and everything would go back to the way it was. Last time I heard a interview with Bruce on the radio he doesn’t even want to talk about it because it’s stupid and it’s in the past. Just get over the incident and stop whining about it. I love Bruce and Ozzy and I just don’t care. It’s stupid and childish.

Ozzy your last decent album was NO MORE TEARS, you ripped off your fans with the stupid shit your “CELEB” wife did to maiden, Fuck you!
OZZY+SHARON+ MONEY= Money grabbing cunts

Destroying Dignity

maybe ozzy would’ve heard the insults if he’d stood on the side of the stage watching a better singer and frontman showing him how its done!

thats not a slur on sabbath, i love them too, but ozzy is a joke these days. is his new album not selling well? is he trying to drum up some publicity now that maiden are back in the spotlight with their new album? forget who’s to blame, its in the past as bruce has said so this is probably another clever sharon publicity stunt

Wonder why its taken 5 years for ozzy to finally have his say? Nothing to do with the fact that ozzy has released an album and its sales will be trumped by Maiden on release of final frontier. In the 5 years the maiden machine has rolled on and on but what has ozzy done in this time? Fuck all. Sorry oz but you should have had your say at the time and not when your wife tells you to.

Whatever happened, it was bloody immature to organise eggs to the thrown, especially for someone who’s supposed to be a manager. Grown the fuck up Sharon.

Johnny Buc

Err…sorry…i forgot we live in a world where we can’t say what we want! Bruce is entitled to his opinion and Ozzy his. I would say that more than likely that Mrs double O has probably spun this story to make Bruce look an arsehole!

So sad to see two of our rock royalty at loggerheads… :-(

Kriss Lane

Sharon may be a good business woman but for as far back as I can remember you can’t read anything about Ozzy without her name coming up. She should just do her job & keep out of the press/public eye. She’s done Ozzy no favours in that respect.

I believe Ozzy when he says he knows nothing about it. But I only believe that because I don’t think he’s really been aware of anything for the last 25 years

To be honest I think that Ozzy just couldn’t take the fact that Bruce will always be a better performer and singer than him. I never saw that tour, but I’ll bet Maiden went out there every single night and showed the Prince Of Darkness up…

I saw an interview with Bruce not so long ago where he was talking about how him and Ozzy were having a laugh in a bar on tour once- so they HAVE spoken in the past. It doesn’t surprise me that Ozzy wouldn’t remember it. He’s probably only saying this now because it has taken 5 years for the story to penetrate the residual drugs haze around his brain.

Laurence

to be fair, maiden have had a hard time in america over the years, its not been as easy for them over there as it has been in europe. So when they get booked on one of the biggest touring festivals in america, why go on stage an start slagging the guy who invited you along? makes no sense what so ever.

however I doubt Ozzy has never spoken to Bruce, for all the years these guys have been going I can’t believe that for a second…

Ozzy will believe anything Sharon tells him. I didn’t once hear that Bruce used Ozzy’s name. I even read Zak Wilde’s comments that he hated Bruce because he was dissn’ the American flag. He and Sharon must work for Fox News. Making things up knowing people will just believe them . If Sharon really had balls, she would have kicked Maiden off the tour instead of acting like a six year old.

BlakNo1

I love them both, but I saw that tour and Bruce was being a dick. He came off like a child throwing a tantrum.

beruce Dickhead started it so im glad they threw eggs at him not the band just him i like the other members but i never liked him

I saw the gig online, to be honest Bruce was just saying what every real sabbath fan was thinking, if Ozzy can’t sing as good as bruce or be as enigmatic as him he should accept his hasbeen status!
Maiden can’t be having that much of a hard time in america, last i heard they were selling out concert venues no problem. Ozzys friends in shite black label society can fuck off as well cos they suck shit!

Scotchmik

maybe these two should get in the ring and finish it or tell them both to shut the hell up. it’s fucking Coronation Metal style…keep the bullshit drama at home!

Scotchmik

maybe these two should get in the ring and finish it or tell them both to shut the hell up. it’s fucking Coronation Street Metal style…keep the bullshit drama at home!

TheCraigus

Such old news now. Why is it being dragged up again? Besides, so what if Bruce said some derogatory things. Pelting the band with eggs and messing with the sound was just plain childish. On the subject of Ozzfest it hasn’t been cutting edge in the last few years, and the current bill at the O2 is okay but you know it could be better with possibly Skindred the only band that will really take advantage from the exposure.

Curtis McCraw

As per fucking usual Ozzy talks a load of shite, he is right when he says he did not know what was going on, Ozzy never knows whats going on period!!!!!!!! As for his missus, she’s a boot and i hope her next shites a porcupine with poisoned pincers

The reason Ozzy’s broke his silence on the incident now is because the interviewer asked him about it. Nothing to do with Ozzy needing publicity. I love both Ozzy and Bruce, Maiden and Sabbath, and don’t feel the need to slag either off.

The Trooper

Why are people so incensed in listening to this? It happened five years ago. What angers me is at that time Bruce didn’t call Sharon a fucktard to her face.
Move on.

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