Ozzy Osbourne reacted to profitable two Grammy Awards on Sunday (Feb. 5) within the actual approach you’d anticipate from heavy steel’s legendarily salty king of darkness. After touchdown finest rock album for Affected person Quantity 9 and finest steel efficiency for the album monitor “Degradation Guidelines,” in a press release on Monday (Feb. 6) Osbourne, 74, was completely candid about what it felt prefer to land his fourth and fifth Grammys wins.
“I’m one fortunate motherf—er to have received the ‘finest rock album’ Grammy,” Osbourne stated. “I used to be blessed to work with among the best musicians on the planet and [producer] Andrew Watt was my producer on this album.” The rock icon added that profitable finest steel efficiency was “equally gratifying being that the track featured my longtime buddy and Black Sabbath bandmate, [guitarist] Tony Iommi.”
Osbourne’s thirteenth solo studio album was certainly full of a few of his favourite gamers, from the title monitor (one in every of a number of that featured late guitar legend Jeff Beck), to songs that includes Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready (“Immortal”) and Ozzy’s longtime musical companion guitarist Zakk Wylde (“Parasite,” “Mr. Darkness,” “Nothing Feels Proper,” “Evil Shuffle”) and Eric Clapton (“Considered one of These Days”). Different visitor performers/songwriters included: Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, Weapons N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan, Jane’s Habit bassist Chris Chaney, Crimson Scorching Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins and others.
Although Osbourne will make a hilarious look in a Tremendous Bowl LVII business on Sunday (Feb. 12), he not too long ago revealed that he won’t ever tour once more resulting from a spinal harm, which pressured the cancelation of his scheduled European/UK tour.