Expelled by the band itself: because Ozzy Osbourne was fired by Black Sabbath

Star of Rock died on Tuesday 22nd, at 76

There is no more rock attitude than being expelled from the band itself. The irony took place with Ozzy Osbourne in 1979 when he was fired by Black Sabbath. Despite the controversial exit, the “prodigal son” has met several times with the group, also the 5th, in a festival in Birmingham, England, where everything started. The rocker died on Tuesday 22, at 76.

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To bite a club by mistake on stage until he pulled the head of a dove, Ozzy has accumulated eccentricity in his career. The excesses and disputes accompanied him since he was successful with Black Sabbath, founded by him and three other friends in 1968.

Problems with alcohol and drugs

After having successes like Changes, paranoid AND Iron Man, The mood was not the best behind the scenes of the band in the late 70s.

In 1978, the group had released the album in the studio Don’t say I never die!who was not welcomed as they imagined. At the same time, Ozzy had problems with alcohol and the use of drugs.

In the book Infernal noise: the definitive history of the metal HeavyWritten by Katherine Turns, guitarist Tony Iommi recalled time.

“Ozzy was going to the clubs, he got along and did not go home,” he said. “He came to an internship where nothing was happening to him. He separated from us,” he said in the work released in 2015.

“We could not continue with Ozzy. As much as everyone wanted, we did not understand it. Nothing was happening and this would mean the end of the band. We didn’t want to fire him, but we needed if we wanted to continue,” he supported.

It was Iommi who made the final decision. In an interview with the podcast The Bob Letfsetz podcast In October 2024, the bassist Geezer Butler admitted that he did not agree with the singer’s resignation, but he had to accept.

“Tony made the decision to get rid of Ozzy. We hated doing it, but it had to happen for our good and his good. And in the end everything went well. And Ronnie James God appeared. He sang some of the things we had written and was brilliant, exactly what we needed. And that was the end of the era of Ozzy,” he said.

The expulsion of his friend, decided in a mutual agreement by the members Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward, would have changed the career of the prince of darkness forever.

Ozzy resigned from “hypocrisy” in a book

In a solo career, Osbourne continued to get shots and even returned to Black Sabbath in specific times for special performances. In your autobiographical book, They are ozzyReleased in 2009, he recalled the resignation.

“I would lie if I said that I didn’t feel betrayed for what happened to Black Sabbath. We grew up together in some streets of distance. We were a family, like the brothers. It made me a handle to be hypocrisy. We were all entrusted.

Ozzy’s latest presentation with the Heavy Metal band took place on July 5th at the Back to the Beginn Festival at the Stadium in Villa Park in Birmingham, England. This was the first time in 20 years that the original formation of Black Sabbath met.

Watch the last time that Ozzy Osbourne sang “Iron Man” in a farewell show with Black Sabbath:

Source: Terra

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