Ozzy Osbourne’s oldest children, Elliot and Jessica Osbourne, were seemingly absent from his July 30th funeral procession. Jack, Kelly, Aimee, and Louis were present.
Before Black Sabbath’s final show “Back to the Beginning” and before Ozzy Osbourne’s death, Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan sat down with Louder Sound to discuss the band and Osbourne’s legacy.
In the interview, which was just published, McKagan explained what he thinks made Ozzy such a great frontman.
“He made it seem like anyone could get up and sing,” McKagan said. “Not that he’s not a great singer – he is. But Robert Plant – I can’t sing like that. But Ozzy? He was one of us.”
He went on to say that when he was a kid Sabbath really opened his eyes to the possibility of playing music:
“Sabbath were there for me before punk. We had an FM radio station that would play whole sides of new albums. I heard ‘Iron Man,’ and to a six- or seven-year-old, that’s, like, ‘Wow!’ And then when you start playing, you go, ‘Well, maybe I could play that.’ Sabbath seemed to make things accessible.”
