God Bless Ozzy Osbourne

384 00:35:09,988 --> 00:35:15,116 I mean, Sabbath was royally fucking ripped off. Royally ripped off. 385 00:35:15,291 --> 00:35:18,624 And then we didn't know anything about royalties. 386 00:35:20,196 --> 00:35:23,222 I didn't even know you got royalties for writing the music. 387 00:35:23,632 --> 00:35:27,961 Circa about 1976, I produced this report, quite a long report, 388 00:35:28,110 --> 00:35:31,779 basically saying how their money wasn't quite as they thought it was. 389 00:35:31,929 --> 00:35:34,931 For example, they all had houses, but they didn't own them. 390 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:38,270 We had all these million, platinum selling albums and everything, 391 00:35:38,419 --> 00:35:41,190 and nothing to show for it. No money. 392 00:35:41,340 --> 00:35:44,582 We were all out of our brains on dope. 393 00:35:46,455 --> 00:35:49,253 So the band was just, like, split anyway. 394 00:35:51,193 --> 00:35:53,286 It had been broken, really. 395 00:35:53,896 --> 00:35:55,789 Hello, welcome to Top of The Pops, and right now, 396 00:35:55,939 --> 00:35:58,492 here's a rundown on the brand new Top 30. 397 00:36:14,783 --> 00:36:15,956 Right now, Never Say Die, 398 00:36:16,106 --> 00:36:18,315 that's the brand new one from Black Sabbath. 399 00:36:42,044 --> 00:36:44,786 The last album I did with Sabbath was Never Say Die. 400 00:36:44,936 --> 00:36:48,674 It was the worst piece of work that I've ever had anything to do with. 401 00:36:48,824 --> 00:36:51,184 I'm ashamed of that album. It was disgusting. 402 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,159 He puts everything he's got into it. That's Black Sabbath right there. 403 00:37:07,308 --> 00:37:08,695 John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John 404 00:37:08,845 --> 00:37:10,795 have gone straight in at number 23 this week... 405 00:37:15,311 --> 00:37:17,404 When his dad passed away, 406 00:37:17,780 --> 00:37:23,013 and it really knocked the shit out of him. It nearly destroyed him. 407 00:37:24,453 --> 00:37:28,412 We were all devastated. We all loved Jack. 408 00:37:28,724 --> 00:37:32,785 It was Jack that had given us the crosses. 409 00:37:33,996 --> 00:37:36,857 This is the original, original, original Sabbath cross. 410 00:37:37,006 --> 00:37:39,894 My father made that when he was at work, 411 00:37:40,043 --> 00:37:42,896 and then when he'd come back with it, 412 00:37:43,045 --> 00:37:46,545 everyone in the band wanted one and he made another. 413 00:37:46,695 --> 00:37:51,339 Bill Ward wore his right up to relatively recently. 414 00:37:52,715 --> 00:37:55,941 I always wanted a man-to-man conversation with my father, 415 00:37:56,090 --> 00:37:59,577 but I was too into drugs and alcohol before he died. 416 00:37:59,989 --> 00:38:02,651 I miss my father a lot, you know. 417 00:38:03,726 --> 00:38:06,215 But I was young, I was doing... 418 00:38:06,364 --> 00:38:09,126 I was riding the fame game for a long time. 419 00:38:12,334 --> 00:38:14,542 Ozz was in absolute turmoil, 420 00:38:14,692 --> 00:38:17,366 and he put himself right inside the bottle. 421 00:38:18,641 --> 00:38:20,905 He stayed there for a while. 422 00:38:22,044 --> 00:38:25,502 And so we got on with trying to make another record. 423 00:38:27,449 --> 00:38:32,374 And we all came over to LA to do the album after Never Say Die, 424 00:38:32,523 --> 00:38:34,814 and Ozzy didn't turn up for two weeks. 425 00:38:34,963 --> 00:38:40,156 Two weeks later, he rolls through the door, smashed out of his head. 426 00:38:40,896 --> 00:38:44,488 He'd beaten somebody up on the plane coming over from England, 427 00:38:44,637 --> 00:38:48,934 and the Customs had arrested him for beating this person up. 428 00:38:50,539 --> 00:38:56,403 By the time we got to the house, he was obliterated, started rehearsing, 429 00:38:56,553 --> 00:38:58,236 and he just wouldn't sing on anything. 430 00:38:58,386 --> 00:39:01,145 He was like, "That's shit. Crap, that is. " 431 00:39:01,450 --> 00:39:03,540 Ozzy wasn't into it. He really wasn't into it. 432 00:39:03,689 --> 00:39:07,711 And most of the time, he would be on the couch asleep, 433 00:39:07,860 --> 00:39:09,514 he'd have done some Quaaludes or whatever 434 00:39:09,663 --> 00:39:13,149 it might've been at that time, and he wasn't happy, I don't think. 435 00:39:13,299 --> 00:39:15,751 He was doing too much of everything, as we all were, 436 00:39:15,900 --> 00:39:19,855 but some people can handle it better than others. He couldn't handle it. 437 00:39:20,004 --> 00:39:21,361 The conversations began about 438 00:39:21,510 --> 00:39:23,870 the possibility of looking at another singer. 439 00:39:24,940 --> 00:39:27,350 He just didn't want to be there. 440 00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:29,965 We knew it was, like, either the whole band split, 441 00:39:30,115 --> 00:39