{"id":729482,"date":"2026-08-06T15:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729482\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T15:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:44:26","slug":"slash-says-he-and-ozzy-osbourne-had-plans-to-go-into-the-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729482\/","title":{"rendered":"Slash says he and Ozzy Osbourne had plans to go into the studio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slash<\/a> has revealed that he and Ozzy Osbourne<\/a> had discussed getting into a studio together and making music after the late Black Sabbath<\/a> frontman made his bow at the band\u2019s epic Back To The Beginning show at Villa Park.<\/p>\n

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That historic metal all-dayer brought the curtain down on Ozzy and Sabbath\u2019s career, with the Double O holding court from a specially constructed throne. His health issues forced him to perform seated.<\/p>\n

Just 17 days later, Ozzy had passed away, aged 76. But speaking to Rolling Stone Australia & New Zealand<\/a>, Slash says that he and Ozzy had spoken after the gig and had agreed that they should do something together once he got back from his Guns N\u2019 Roses commitments.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI talked to Ozzy. Ozzy and I have been buddies for a long time, and I recorded with him a bunch of times, and performed with him and stuff,\u201d says Slash. \u201cAnd so we talked on the phone about getting together to do it. He said, \u2018Yeah, we should get together soon.\u2019 And that was the conversation we had on the phone. I guess it was maybe a week after the gig.\u201d<\/p>\n

Slash and Guns N\u2019 Roses performed at Back To The Beginning, playing as a five-piece for the first time since 1990, with keys\/synth players Dizzy Reed and Melissa Reese sitting it out (initially, it was only going to be Slash and GNR bassist Duff McKagan playing).<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve never witnessed anything in my career so far that was this special, as that particular event,\u201d says Slash.<\/p>\n

They played four Black Sabbath tracks \u2013 a shortened version of It\u2019s Alright segueing into Never Say Die, Junior\u2019s Eye then Sabbath Bloody Sabbath \u2013 before closing their set with the one-two punch of Appetite For Destruction classics Welcome To The Jungle and Paradise City.<\/p>\n

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Slash says he made a point of going backstage to see Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi<\/a>. But he also had the honour of introducing GNR frontman Axl Rose to Ozzy for the first time. Remarkably, they had never met.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEverybody wanted to go back and pay homage to Ozzy,\u201d says Slash. \u201cI got Axl back there to meet Ozzy for the first time, \u2018cos they never met each other. And Axl, obviously, was always a fan of Ozzy, but what Axl didn\u2019t know was Ozzy was a huge fan of his, and so it was nice to see them actually meet.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was the last time Slash saw Ozzy. Speaking on the phone, he just assumed that they would see each other again, and put something in the diary for the studio.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was sort of like, \u2018Okay then, at some point we\u2019ll converge on a studio somewhere.\u2019 And that was it!\u201d says Slash. \u201cThen I went off. I was on the road with Guns, so we went off and finished what we were doing. And then, all of a sudden, I got that fucking phone call. I was like, \u2018Jesus Christ!\u2019 It was unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ozzy and Slash had were both guests on Alice Cooper\u2019s Hey Stoopid, and on Mot\u00f6rhead\u2019s I Ain\u2019t No Nice Guy, with each showing up on the other\u2019s albums.<\/p>\n

Ozzy sang on Slash\u2019s Crucify The Dead, from his eponymous 2010 solo album. Slash played on two tracks from Ozzy\u2019s 2020 studio album, guesting on Straight To Hell and joining Elton John on the title track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slash has revealed that he and Ozzy Osbourne had discussed getting into a studio together and making music…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-729482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}