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Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne's final show celebration Back to the Beginning is going down in less than a month, and Sharon Osbourne recently revealed she kicked a band off the bill.
“I had a huge, huge to-do with a manager over this celebration for Ozzy and Sabbath,” Sharon, who's Ozzy's wife and manager, explained in an interview with Metal Hammer. “And it was probably the worst way I’ve felt in years. And I don’t care what this person says about me, thinks about it, because he doesn’t know me. And he’s now going around making up bulls**t lies because I threw his band off the bill.”
“I don’t care what people say. Because do you know what? I don’t love them," she added. "I care about people who love me, what they say about me. You can’t care what an industry says, because you don’t love them, so how can it hurt you? It doesn’t.”
Sharon didn't disclose what band got the boot, but when Metal Hammer asked if it was Iron Maiden she insisted that it wasn't. “Oh god, no. Ozzy only has respect for the guys in Maiden. And he didn’t even know what Bruce [Dickinson] was doing [during Ozzfest]," she said, referring to a feud she had with the singer during Ozzfest 2005 that resulted in him getting pelted with eggs. "I never told him, until the night that it happened when it was the last show, and he just looked at me and goes, ‘You’re terrible.'”
Back To The Beginning and is to take place July 5 at Villa Park in Birmingham, UK. The all-day event will also feature sets from Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Alice in Chains, TOOL, and many other rock and metal icons.