Sharon Osbourne. If she’s not being an X-Factor pantomime villain, she’s trying to control her wobbly-headed husband or slapping her arse in those exceptionally patronising Asda adverts.
And now, she’s fighting with Iron Maiden for allegedly getting up to some kind of mischief while on tour with Ozzy Osbourne in America.
A fight between Iron Maiden and Ozzy Osbourne? Bless them, it’s like they really want it to be 1986 again.
Iron Maiden (CDs) were on the Ozzfest tour, and performing at Devore,
California when sections of the crowd apparently started to chant for
Ozzy Osbourne (CDs). Items ranging from bottles to eggs were also reportedly
flung at the band.
According to reports, at this point lead singer Bruce Dickinson asked
for the arms of the flingers to be broken, and he made a comment about
singers with reality television shows. After this, supposed technical
difficulties started to break up Iron Maiden’s set – there were drops
in both sound and lighting. Iron Maiden fans have claimed that the Osbournes
were behind these hiccups.
If that wasn’t enough, Sharon Osbourne took the stage after Iron
Maiden’s set and called Bruce Dickinson a bad word. She then took to
the Ozzfest website to call Dickinson a "jealous prick," and claimed
that Iron Maiden’s bassist had gone on to apologise for Bruce’s behaviour.
She also wrote, weirdly, that "It also offended me every night how he
took out the English flag in America. There are American boys going to
war alongside the English boys every day. How dare he forget the
American troops on their home turf".
No longer on the Ozzfest tour, Iron Maiden have retaliated. Their manager Rod Smallwood wrote on their website: "In 30 years
in this business and after attending hundreds of gigs l have never seen
anything anywhere near as disgusting and unprofessional as what went on
that night… The scale, viciousness and concentration of the throwing
made it obvious that this was a premeditated and co-ordinated attack".
He also goes on to claim that the chants for Ozzy were actually a tape
played deliberately through the PA system.
Who’s right and who’s wrong? We don’t really care – take the music
out of the equation and you’re basically left with a shrieking mother screaming at a pilot. Admittedly the mother is the face of a supermarket and the pilot is friends with a giant papier-mache zombie.
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[story by Stuart Heritage]
Ken says
I realize this is a bit dated, for a no-talent hack like Sharon Osbourne she’s a bit overexposed. Admittedly, B. Dickinson was acting unprofessionally. But Sharon is already an antagonistic bitch, and if she wasn’t going to start trouble with Iron Maiden she would’ve done it within someone else. If there was a rivalry between Ozzy and Iron Maiden, it’s not her concern. I remember when she used to be a somewhat sweet and demure Englishwoman. Now she’s just annoying as hell, and what’s worse is that she has no talent. Sharon- go on sabbatical, get a hobby, do something. Just go away.