Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne: I Really DON'T Like Working With Tony Iommi!
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Channel: R&M News · 2018 · Music
During a recent conversation with The Times, Ozzy Osbourne admitted he's not really into working with his Black Sabbath bandmate, guitarist Tony Iommi. The singer explained (via Blabbermouth): "Do I like working with him? Not really. Do I like him as a person? Yeah, I love him as a person. "But if people was to say to me, 'Was there a leader of Black Sabbath?', I'd have to say it was Tony Iommi. "Because without his guitar riffs, we'd be still sitting in fucking rehearsal with our thumbs up our arses going, 'What do we do now?'" Osbourne added he has "moved on" from Sabbath, saying about the band's farewell tour: "I'll tell you what it was like. It's like when you're younger and you met a girl, Susie, and you break up and you don't see her for 30 years. "Then she's in town and you go, 'Oh, I'll give Susie a call,' because your memory only remembers the good parts and you can narrow it then to a week and you go, 'I remember that week and it was lovely.' "But then you go back and you go, 'I forgot the fucking four and three-quarter years I was fucking miserable.'" Ozzy went on to describe his ongoing solo tour as "great fun," adding: "I'm in control and it's so much better. I get more pleasure out of doing the gigs now."
