“If you’re bad-mouthing Ozzy to the crowd, you’ve got to pay”: The time Sharon Osbourne had fans throw open cans of baked beans at Bruce Dickinson
Sharon Osbourne has looked back on her infamous plot to sabotage Bruce Dickinson during the 2005’s Ozzfest.
Osbourne orchestrated a plan to egg the Iron Maiden frontman (and apparently, have open cans of baked beans launched at him, too) during the final night of the festival as revenge for what she deemed disrespectful comments made by Dickinson about the tour and Ozzy Osbourne.
She used audience members and even nurses from chemotherapy treatment she was undergoing at the time to throw the ammunition, and had crew members cut the sound to his set.
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Speaking to Metal Hammer for its new print edition, she says Ozzy didn’t even realise what was going to happen during that fateful set.
“I love Iron Maiden, it’s just the singer because he was so horribly disrespectful. But if you’re going to take Ozzy’s money, and play before him every night of a festival, and you’re bad-mouthing him to the crowd, you’ve got to pay. So I had him pelted with cans of baked beans that were open, and cut his sound,” she says.
“Ozzy only has respect for the guys in Maiden. And he didn’t even know what Bruce was doing. I never told him, until the night that it happened when it was the last show, and he just looked at me and goes, ‘You’re terrible.’”
In an interview with Billboard last year, Sharon went into further detail about recruiting nurses who treated her during chemotherapy for the plot to sabotage Dickinson.
“I had been having cancer treatments, and all the nurses that I had met over my year in chemo came to the show and they said, ‘Can we do anything for you?’ And I’m, like, ‘Yes, you can.’ I loaded them up with cans of bean soup, vegetables, eggs, and I said, ‘Pelt the singer.’ And that’s what they did. It was, like, ‘You wanna talk? You think you’re clever? Well, watch this – you’re gonna get covered in tomato soup in L.A.”
This summer, Ozzy Osbourne will be reuniting with the original Black Sabbath line up for one final show. The event, called Back To The Beginning, will take place at Villa Park in Birmingham, UK – the band’s home city.
A huge number of other rock and metal acts will also be performing on the day including Metallica, Slayer and Alice In Chains. The event will also raise money for three charities, including two children’s charities and Cure Parkinson’s, a disease which Osbourne himself battles with. Tickets for the event are completely sold out.
For more info, head to ozzy.com.
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