Whereas musician Bob Daisley is finest identified for his work with Ozzy Osbourne, he and the Prince of Darkness had a little bit of a rocky relationship through the years. Regardless of their variations, Daisy admitted in a brand new interview with Johnny Beane that Osbourne’s dying hit him laborious.
“That’s all very unhappy. The day that I came upon that Ozzy had gone, it introduced tears to my eyes, I inform you. Simply because all the great recollections got here flooding again, all the great things, you recognize? The creativity, the snigger, the humor, the great instances, all got here flooding again,” he stated.
Daisley continued, recalling what the late Black Sabbath singer was actually like behind the scenes. When requested particularly if it was true that Ozzy was “the last word prankster,” he replied:
“Yeah, he was. All of us had enjoyable collectively. There was plenty of enjoyable in that music. And I believe, should you’re having fun with it and having a very good time and having enjoyable doing it, that comes out within the music. And positively, [it’s] an vital ingredient.”
Seventeen days earlier than he handed away on July twenty second, Osbourne carried out for the ultimate time at “Again to the Starting” alongside the unique members of Black Sabbath. Ozzy had been battling a number of well being points for the previous couple of years, together with Parkinson’s illness. In a latest interview following his dying, his bandmate Tony Iommi stated that he thinks the late frontman held on simply lengthy sufficient to carry out one final time.
“I believe he actually simply held out to do this present,” Iommi instructed ITV. “I actually really feel — and me and Geezer [Butler] have been speaking about it final evening — that we predict he held out to do it, and simply after that, he’s executed it and stated goodbye to the followers. And that was the top of it, actually.”
