Roger Waters is not taking back the comments he made about late singer Ozzy Osbourne shortly after his death in July 2025.
The Pink Floyd frontman threw a few jabs towards the late, great Black Sabbath singer-songwriter in an interview with “The Independent Ink” in August 2025.
“Ozzy Osbourne, who just died, bless him in his whatever state that he was in his whole life, we’ll never know,” Waters said. “Although he was all over the TV for hundreds of years with his idiocy and nonsense. The music, I have no idea. I couldn’t give a f–k.”
Waters, 82, went on to add, “I don’t care about Black Sabbath, I never did. Have no interest in biting the heads of chickens or whatever they do. I couldn’t care less, you know.”
The Osbourne family wasn’t having it.
Ozzy’s son, Jack, responded in an Instagram story stating, “How pathetic and out of touch you’ve become. The only way you seem to get attention these days is by vomiting out bulls–t in the press. My father always thought you were a c–t. Thanks for proving him right.”
The Osbournes also released a limited-time t-shirt in December 2025 depicting Ozzy urinating on the cover of Pink Floyd’s The Wall, with the back reading “OZZY RULES” below Waters’ name.
Waters addressed the criticism from the Osbourne family during a Jan. 16 interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored.
“Those comments, I’m not denying that I said them, came in the middle of a long interview,” Waters stated. “Do I have to like every rock group there ever was in the world or people who bite the heads off bats?”
Morgan asked Waters if he thought an apology was in order, to which the Pink Floyd frontman remarked he would “certainly not” give one to Sharon, because “she is a raging Zionist” and has “accused me of all kinds of things because she is part of the Israeli lobby.”
Waters defended his position, saying “I regret nothing in life, except that I haven’t been more successful in getting people to understand that we as a human race recognize and empathize with all of our brothers and sisters all over the world and make certain that they have equal human rights one with another under international law.”