John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English singer, songwriter, actor and television personality. He rose to prominence during the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, during which he adopted the nickname "The Prince of Darkness".
Osbourne was fired from the band in 1979 due to alcohol and drug problems, but he went on to have a successful solo career, releasing eleven studio albums, the first seven of which were all awarded multi-platinum certifications in the United States. Osbourne has since reunited with Black Sabbath on several occasions.
Ozzy Osbourne once asked Corey Taylor if he could be “number 10” in Slipknot
nme.comCorey Taylor has recalled the moment he first met Ozzy Osbourne, when the Black Sabbath frontman asked if he could be the tenth member in Slipknot.The Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman, who recently released his second solo album ‘CMF2‘, was reflecting on how his band got on the line-up at Ozzfest in 1999.“The reason Slipknot got onto Ozzfest [in 1999] is because we were [Ozzy’s son] Jack’s favourite band,” Taylor shared in a new interview with Classic Rock magazine (via Louder Sound). “Sharon gave us a little more leeway because of that.
We did some crazy shit, but she’d be, ‘It’s fine, it’s Slipknot’”.He went on to recall his first meeting with The Prince Of Darkness. “I was sitting at a table with Jack and Kelly and Sharon,” he said. “All of sudden, Ozzy comes bounding up: ‘Sharon, can you help me with my earrings?’ And Sharon goes, ‘Ozzy, this is one of the members of Slipknot, it’s Corey, he’s the singer.’“He looks at me and goes, “You’re the guys with nine members?
I wanna be number ten!” I was like, ‘Dude, you’re Ozzy, anything you want!’ It was like meeting Superman.”Elsewhere in the interview, Taylor reflected on meeting his various musical heroes, including Metallica.“I’ve met them in so many phases of their career,” he said “The first time was when they headlined over Slipknot at a show in the early 2000s.
James [Hetfield] and Jason [Newsted] invited us into their dressing room to hang out, and we were in such awe of them that the only thing we could do was raid their food and drink.“We were like these Dickensian street rats, drinking all their beer and stuffing our pockets.
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