Pink Floyd icon Roger Waters spoke of Ozzy Osbourne’s “idiocy and nonsense” in a scathing interview just weeks after the Black Sabbath legend died. Ozzy’s son Jack Osbourne hit back hard to defend his dad’s honor on Tuesday. (Watch the video below.)
Waters, no stranger to controversy, lambasted his rock ‘n’ roll contemporary and the pioneering heavy metal band he fronted.
Waters appeared to complain about pop culture’s ability to distract from important political issues when he zeroed in on Osbourne, who died at age 76 of a heart attack in July. He also had been battling Parkinson’s disease.
“How can we push this to one side? I know how to do it! We’ll do it with Taylor Swift or bubble gum or Kim Kardashian’s bum,” Waters said on The Independent Ink last month. “… Or Ozzy Osbourne, who just died, bless him, in his, whatever that state that he was in his whole life, we’ll never know. Although, he was all over the TV for hundreds of years with his idiocy and nonsense.”
“The music, I’ve no idea, I couldn’t give a fuck. I don’t care about Black Sabbath, I never did,” Waters continued.
Fast forward to 37:55 for Waters’ diatribe:
Jack Osbourne called out the “pathetic” Waters, who left Pink Floyd decades ago.
“Hey @rogerwaters. Fuck You,” the younger Osbourne wrote on an Instagram story. “How pathetic and out of touch you’ve become. The only way you seem to get attention these days is by vomiting out bullshit in the press. My father always thought you were a cunt – thanks for proving him right.”
Waters’ criticism of Osbourne dates back to at least 1970 while Osbourne “throughout his life expressed admiration for Pink Floyd,” the International Business Times wrote.
HuffPost reached out to Ozzy’s widow Sharon Osbourne for comment.
