Ozzy Osbourne has revealed that he has by no means been fully au fait with the concept of being the Godfather Of Steel. Actually, as he sees it, he would not actually see himself as a full-on heavy steel artist in any respect, regardless of his former band Black Sabbath being extensively considered the inventors of the style.
“Properly, I’ve by no means felt snug about that title that they placed on me – ‘steel’,” he explains in a brand new interview with Spin. “As a result of Ozzy Osbourne performs heavy, however the bands which might be [considered metal] are actually heavy, and we’re all put in the identical class. While you get pigeonholed with a sure [genre], it may be very tough to do one thing a bit lighter or an acoustic observe or no matter you need to do. Again within the day, it was all the time simply rock music. It’s nonetheless simply rock music.”
Elsewhere within the interview, the Prince Of Darkness discusses his emotions on actuality TV – a format which he and his household have been instrumental in making in style courtesy of their legendary early-00s TV present, The Osbournes.
“Properly, it’s actually attention-grabbing as a result of individuals love the Kardashians,” he says. “They took it one stage additional. They noticed what we did and mentioned, ‘That’s a good suggestion,’ however they organized themselves. What they do now’s form of scripted actuality. It’s not uncooked. It’s not the true, actual actuality. With our present, what you noticed was what actually went on. It wasn’t contrived. It wasn’t scripted. As a result of on the finish of the day, each season, my spouse would sit us all down and go, ‘Alright, what do you need to do? Do you need to do one other season or not?’ After the third yr, the [production crew and MTV] began to ask us to do issues that we wouldn’t usually do. At that time, I misplaced curiosity in it.
“I imply, what they name actuality TV now’s actually not actuality,” he provides. The primary season once we did The Osbournes and it acquired picked up and all people went Osbournes mad, we’d exit and [film] within the streets, and there could be pedestrians and common individuals simply strolling by. They’d simply [have those people sign a waiver to be on the show], however by the second season, they wouldn’t simply signal the waiver. They’d need cash for it. Individuals wouldn’t simply enroll anymore.”
Speaking to Metal Hammer lately in regards to the insane success of The Osbournes, Ozzy admitted that the present’s recognition even took him unexpectedly.
“It began off as a spin-off of that MTV present, Cribs,” he recalled. “Our episode of Cribs was probably the most watched on replay, so some producers approached us with the concept of doing it as a full present set in the home. All of it went from there. We’d by no means actually deliberate on being the subsequent large TV household, nevertheless it grew by itself steam and went loopy. I’m not notably planning on doing a re-run of it, but when one thing occurs, it occurs!”
You may hear extra from Ozzy on The Osbourne’s newly resurrected podcast, which is out now through all of your standard podcast platforms.
