“Ozzy’s like, ‘I really f**king need to cut back on the calories’”: Zakk Wylde on the time an air stewardess mistook Ozzy Osbourne for Meat Loaf
Zakk Wylde has revealed Ozzy Osbourne’s hilarious reaction when he was once mistaken for Meat Loaf by an air stewardess.
In a new interview with Classic Rock – in which he recalls his experiences meeting a number of rock legends throughout his career including Lemmy, Slash and Dimebag Darrell – the Black Label Society frontman remembers joining Ozzy’s band as a young guitar player at around 19 or 20.
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Wylde says despite the nerves that came with joining the band of Ozzy Osbourne – “a guy whose records I had grown up listening to,” as he puts it – the Prince of Darkness was, in fact, not a “big rock star ego guy”.
“If we ever got turned away from a restaurant because they were full, he’d never go: ‘Don’t you know who I am?’ He’d go: “[deflated] I guess they don’t like Black Sabbath.”
Wylde remembers Ozzy telling him a story about him flying on a Concorde shortly after his Sabbath departure.
“He’s sitting there, bummed out, and the stewardess is like: ‘Oh, my God, I can’t believe it’s you!’ She’s giving him drinks, getting him food, and he’s just floored by it. He’s going: ‘Maybe things aren’t so bad.’
“As the plane lands, she says: ‘Can I get a picture?’ So she takes the photo, and then she goes: ‘Oh, wow, thank you Meat Loaf!’ Ozzy’s like: ‘I really fucking need to cut back on the calories.’”
Ozzy Osbourne died in July 2025 at the age of 76, just two weeks after performing at Black Sabbath’s mega last-ever show, Back to the Beginning at Villa Park in Birmingham, England.
Following the show and before his death, Ozzy was texting Wylde expressing a desire to record another album, Wylde remembers.
“He was saying, ‘I want to make another record, like when you were going through your Allman Brothers/Lynyrd Skynyrd phase with No More Tears. So it’ll be heavy but melodic.’ And I said, ‘Surely you must be kidding.’ And he goes: ‘No, I’m not kidding – and don’t call me Shirley!’
“I was figuring Ozzy would do his rehab and hopefully get better, and we’d make another record and maybe Mom [Sharon Osbourne, Ozzy’s wife and longtime manager] would do this gig once a year for charity and give him something to strive for.
“Every night when I’m saying my prayers I say hi to him.”
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