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Bob Daisley, a 75-year-old veteran rock/metal bassist and songwriter who performed on and wrote or co-wrote the lyrics and music for a significant amount of Ozzy Osbourne‘s early solo catalog, was asked about his invitation to participate in Ozzy‘s farewell concert last July in a recent interview with Scott Penfold of Loaded Radio, as per Blabbermouth.
Hey, you’re not alone in thinking that [I should have been invited] and saying that. So many people did. It was me not being there and me not being asked to be there, was really the elephant in the room, wasn’t it? I wasn’t put out [by the fact that I wasn’t asked to take part in the concert], because a couple of years ago I got COVID and it knocked the shit out of me and I can’t fly anywhere anyway. I couldn’t have gone even if I’d wanted to, but a mention on the day, being that the whole audience was out there, thousands of people singing my lyrics, and I don’t even get a mention. It seems a bit, um, what’s the word? I don’t know.
Daisley was also questioned on why he was left out of Osbourne‘s October 2024 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
That was another [thing]. People were speaking out about that. There were people putting messages up on their Instagram and on Facebook and saying, ‘What the fuck? He doesn’t even get a mention? He wrote all your fucking lyrics.’
When asked what went wrong between him and Ozzy to make their relationship so bad that he wouldn’t even be mentioned at the Rock Hall or invited to the “Back To The Beginning” event, Bob responded as follows.
Well, really, for that, it’s so complicated and so interconnected with all the different facets and things that happened, it’s not a question that you can answer in one simple answer. ‘Cause I went back and worked with Ozzy about — I don’t know — three or four times, when I was asked to, because it iscomplicated. They got rid of me right after the recording of ‘Diary Of A Madman’. Then I was asked back to do the third album, and then that didn’t materialize ’cause Randy [Rhoads] was killed. But I did do the third album with Jake E. Lee. That was ‘Bark At The Moon’.
Additionally, he was asked when he last communicated with Sharon Osbourne, Ozzy‘s manager and wife.
Oh, probably in New York in about 2001, it was. When 9/11 went down, we were there for a deposition. Because [former Ozzy drummer] Lee [Kerslake] and I had a lawsuit against them for unpaid royalties and incorrect credits on ‘Diary’ and all that. But, yeah, that was probably the last time I spoke to her. The thing is, in the early days, Sharonand I got on really well, and Ozzy and I were close mates and it was very sad for me to see all that end. I got on great with both of them. And the day that I heard that Ozzy died, I actually shed tears because there was a lot of memories that came flooding back. There was the dirty water that went under the bridge, but there was a lot of good times as well. There was a lot of laughter and a lot of enjoyment and a lot of creativity. And for me, that day it all came flooding back and I did shed tears.
Would he be open to speaking to her again if she reached out?
I would talk. I don’t hate her. If there was something to talk about, of course I’d talk. I’m not a vindictive person and I don’t hold grudges. And I felt for Ozzy’s family that day too. Nobody likes to see people suffer. Well, I don’t like to see people suffer. And it was sad for me, with all the nice memories that came back, and it was sad for me to know what they were going through.
