The astonishing claims about the Birmingham-born Black Sabbath icon, who died last year, were made by American heavy metal star Dee Snider, of Twisted Sister.
In a post on X, he claimed Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler penned all of the band’s lyrics.
He also claimed Ozzy’s first two solo albums featured lyrics written by Bob Daisley, and that the No More Tears album had contributions from Lemmy Kilmister.
Snider also suggested that Sharon Osbourne “doesn’t like to share” while discussing the legacy of Ozzy’s music, but aded that while many artisits don’t write their own material they can still make songs their own.
This was common knowledge when I was getting into music in my early teens about 20 years ago, and it was repeated in music magazines and conversations about music a lot. This happening doesn’t make it true obviously, but like, it was known. I even remember saying it once or twice.
I think one of the old heavy metal musicans from the Sabbath era released an auto/biography around that time (early 00’s) and it was said there too/first? I can’t remember. I read a bunch of that shit around that time though, so it might just be conflated memories?
Yeah like it’s not even a big deal. Plenty of artists don’t write all their own songs. There’s lots of collaboration in writing a song as part of a band. Idk why they feel the need to fight over it 🤷♀️
The osbourne lot are just trashy, shitty people. This is what they do.