Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson was “eaten up with jealousy” for Ozzy Osbourne, says Sharon

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Iron Maiden‘s Bruce Dickinson sharing that he was “eaten up with jealousy” for Ozzy Osbourne.As Blabbermouth previously noted, the Iron Maiden frontman was involved in a verbal confrontation with Sharon – Ozzy’s wife and manager – back in 2005, when his band were pelted with eggs and other objects during a performance at the Ozzfest tour.The band continued with the show, before Sharon came on-stage and reportedly said that Dickinson had “disrespected Ozzfest” while the group were on the road.

As a result of the incident, Dickinson and co. departed the tour early.It’s reported that Sharon had ordered interference with Maiden’s PA system, delayed the entrance of their mascot, Eddie, and encouraged the audience to throw bottles at Dickinson.Now, in a new interview with Billboard as part of an “oral history” of Ozzfest, both Sharon and Ozzy opened up about the feud with the ‘Fear Of The Dark’ singer. “It was just the singer.

The other guys in the band are great, great people. No problem at all. But when you’ve got a singer that is so eaten up with jealousy for the headliner, it never goes well.”“He would go on the stage and turn to the audience and say bad things.

Be disrespectful. ‘I didn’t condone the fucking lights,’ and all this,” Ozzy told the publication. “If you don’t want the gig, just say, ‘I don’t want the gig.’ But it’s pretty fucking stupid if you accept the gig and all you do is complain about it.”Sharon added: “I just kept saying, ‘Let him do it.