Sharon Osbourne has reignited a just about two-decade-old feud with Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson, accusing the singer of being “eaten up with jealousy” for her husband, Ozzy Osbourne. The tensions date again to the 2005 Ozzfest excursion, the place Dickinson and Sharon engaged in a extremely publicized war.
All over Iron Maiden’s ultimate efficiency at the excursion, the band confronted surprising disruptions. Target market contributors, reportedly inspired by means of Sharon, pelted the band with eggs, lighters, and ice. Moreover, Maiden’s PA device was once tampered with, and the level front in their mascot Eddie was once behind schedule. Those movements had been allegedly in keeping with remarks Dickinson made concerning the excursion’s sound device and demanding feedback about Ozzy.
In a up to date interview with Billboard for an “oral historical past” of Ozzfest, Sharon mentioned her problems with Maiden, mentioning, “It was once simply the singer. The opposite guys within the band are nice, nice other folks. No drawback in any respect. However if you have a singer this is so eaten up with jealousy for the headliner, it by no means is going smartly.”
Ozzy added, “He would pass at the level and switch to the target market and say dangerous issues. Be disrespectful. ‘I did not condone the fucking lighting fixtures,’ and all this. If you do not want the gig, simply say, ‘I do not want the gig.’ However it is lovely fucking silly should you settle for the gig and all you do is whinge about it.”
All over Maiden’s ultimate display, Dickinson addressed the group amid the disruptions, announcing, “You’ll have spotted a couple of smart asses that made up our minds they might pass right down to the grocery store and purchase a couple of fucking eggs and get started throwing them at us down within the entrance. I assume they idea it could be humorous. Smartly, that is an English fucking flag and those colours don’t fucking run from you asswipes.”
Sharon printed that the instigators had been her chemo nurses, announcing, “I have been having most cancers remedies, and the entire nurses that I had met over my yr in chemo got here to the display they usually mentioned, ‘Are we able to do anything else for you?’ And I am, like, ‘Sure, you’ll be able to.’ I loaded them up with cans of bean soup, greens, eggs, and I mentioned, ‘Pelt the singer.’ And that is the reason what they did. It was once, like, ‘You wanna communicate? You assume you are suave? Smartly, watch this — you are gonna get coated in tomato soup in L.A.'”
Reflecting at the incident, Sharon added, “I simply idea, ‘You take the cash to be in this excursion, and you are disrespecting the namesake of the excursion. You might be disrespecting him by means of knocking him each and every night time to the fanatics.’ I do not like that. It isn’t within the spirit of what we do.”
Ozzy agreed, announcing, “If you’re feeling that dangerous concerning the excursion, fucking go away.”
In a November 2022 interview with End result, Ozzy expressed his perspectives on Dickinson, announcing, “Bruce Dickinson is a brilliant singer, however as an individual, I have labored with him, and he is not really nice.” He contrasted this along with his admire for the overdue Ronnie James Dio, regardless of Dio having taken his position in Black Sabbath.
Sharon, then again, was once extra blunt, calling Dickinson “a fucking asshole” and accusing him of jealousy. She said, “Bruce Dickinson is a fucking prick. Smartly, no, he is not a prick as a result of a prick’s great. He is a fucking asshole. Since the state of affairs is he was once on a excursion referred to as Ozzfest. And Ozzy Osbourne was once paying him each and every night time to accomplish. He accredited the gig. He knew what he was once doing. He accredited the gig. And each and every night time he would pass onstage and say dangerous issues about Ozzy.”
She endured, “However the factor about Bruce is, he’s unknown to the general public. Bruce Dickinson may just stroll into anyplace and no person would know who the fuck he’s. Are you aware what I am announcing? He is a faceless singer to most of the people. Other folks are not scrambling to get him for an interview. And the object is, he is not fascinating. However the factor is, Ozzy is unique and Bruce is not and that is the reason what eats Bruce away.”
In a 2017 interview with NME, Dickinson downplayed the feud, calling it a “entire typhoon in a teacup” and expressing admire for early Black Sabbath with Ozzy. He added, “The truth that I do not like fact TV presentations, smartly, I am not gonna be offering an olive department to the Kardashians both.”
Ozzy defended his spouse in a 2010 interview with The Quietus, announcing, “Unbeknown to me, each and every night time [on the Ozzfest tour, Bruce] was once occurring level slagging me off. And that wasn’t truthful. If he did not just like the fuckin’ excursion, he will have to have mentioned, ‘I am leaping [off] the fuckin’ excursion,’ however to move on level and fuckin’ slag me off for no reason why… I would by no means mentioned a fuckin’ dangerous factor to him.”
He added, “To nowadays I do not perceive what the fuckin’ pork was once. I simply do not get it. To move at the Ozzfest and slag [people] off, that is loopy. I in reality assume he wishes a fuckin’ psychiatrist if he does that, he is fucking nuts. It is an irresponsible fuckin’ factor to do. Sharon should have were given frustrated with this cunt, you realize.”
The long-standing feud between the Osbournes and Dickinson remains to be a notable bankruptcy within the historical past of Ozzfest, highlighting the tensions and clashes that may get up within the aggressive international of rock and steel.
