Aerosmith missing members for Yungblud EP?
Yungblud was recently interviewed about his collaboration EP with Aerosmith, One More Time. Yungblud did not mention Brad Whitford and Tom Hamilton in any of the interview. He even recalled asking Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, “Would you guys, as Aerosmith, be up for potentially doing a remix of Hello Heaven, Hello?” This has fueled discussion among fans that Tyler and Perry are using the Aerosmith name without any of their bandmates.
Yungblud previously was mentored by the late Ozzy Osbourne. After meeting for the first time in 2022, Yungblud and Ozzy Osbourne seemed to bond instantly, quickly forming a deep friendship that endured until Ozzy’s passing in July 2025. In a recent interview with Loudwire Nights, Yungblud opened up about his relationship with the legendary musician, recalling that he first met Ozzy through his daughter Kelly Osbourne.
Yungblud’s relationship with Ozzy Osbourne’s family
“I’ve known Kelly for years. Me and Kelly really got on because we’re quite loud, we’re quite boisterous and we’re quite naughty, so me and Kelly have known each other for years,” he said. “And I remember I had an idea for [the song] ‘The Funeral’ that I was like, I want Kelly to run me over in a car and someone was like, ‘Who was that,’ and she would just say, ‘I don’t know, it’s just some poser.'”
While a scheduling conflict prevented Kelly from appearing in the music video, she offered up her parents as a replacement.
“She was like, ‘Let me call my mum.’ And she’s like, ‘I’ve just called my mum and my mum and dad are up for it.’ I’m like, ‘You are kidding me,’” Yungblud remembered. “Ozzy was always really my North Star, you know what I mean. So the fact that I was going to, one, get to meet him and chill with him [and] him being in my video was just mental.”
Yungblud went on to recall how, on the day of the video shoot, he and Ozzy hit it off instantly.
“We just sat for about an hour and a half and just laughed and laughed and laughed and honestly just really got on and we had the most fun day. Because I’ve kind of loved him so much and I’m from the U.K. and my family is mental as well, we just got on and that was the start of a beautiful friendship.”
He continued, explaining why his relationship with the Osbournes means so much to him.
“They’ve been so helpful. In terms of how to navigate this crazy industry, how to navigate hate, how to navigate love, how to navigate releasing things, how to navigate my festival. They really have given me a lot of time and I’ll never take that for granted,” Yungblud said, adding that Ozzy once gave him a piece of advice that has stayed with him to this day.
“The thing he said to me when he gave me his cross was, ‘Never compromise, be yourself, they’ll understand it later. Trust me.’ That’s what he said.”
