Yungblud has reacted to backlash for his performance with Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry at the MTV VMA’s.
He told Billy Corgan on The Magnificent Others, “With the VMAs to obviously honor him (Ozzy) and I think we were probably one of the only acts singing live there,” Yungblud said. “You can tell, you know, I mean, amongst all the bubble gum and amongst all the award show, to have us just play live and it be the most viewed video on the internet the day afterwards.”
“You can feel rock music is all about truth and all about passion and all about humanity,” he said.
Aerosmith and Yungblud are soon set to release their One More Time EP.
In July, just two weeks before Ozzy Osbourne passed away at the age of 76, he and Black Sabbath took the stage for the final time at their farewell concert “Back to the Beginning.” Yungblud also performed at the event. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Grammy-winning producer Andrew Watt – a longtime friend of Osbourne – reflected on taking part in the massive event, describing it as surreal.
“The experience at the show was unbelievable, and at this current moment, it feels like a dream sequence. The whole last month of his life feels like a dream,” he said. “I had been in London working on a project, and going to the show and getting to Birmingham was amazing. And I got there and there was this big photo shoot, everyone was there.
“It was this amazing thing because [guitarist] Jake E. Lee was there, who hadn’t seen Ozzy in 30 years. And all these people were there from all walks of his life, bands that he loved. Musicians that he loved. There’s this really great photo shoot that Ross Halfin was conducting and Ozzy was telling him to f*ck off the whole time, and he was telling Ozzy to f*ck off back.
“It was just this great, fun thing. It felt like a heavy metal summer camp. That’s the best way to describe it. And then we were all together every day, and getting to be with Sharon and Jack and Kelly and everyone…”
Watt continued, recalling some of his last moments with the legendary musician.
“I remember the night before the big show, I went out with Sharon to have a curry, ’cause that’s what you eat in Birmingham. And we brought one back to the hotel for Ozzy. Hung out with him for a long time and talked. We had a couple hours together in his room the night before the show,” he said, taking a moment to pause before concluding: “This is hard to talk about.”
