The rocker detailed his interaction with the former Beatles member during a new radio broadcast.
Speaking during a new episode of his SiriusXM show Ozzy Speaks, the musician, 76, opened up about his interactions with the Beatles bassist, noting that working with the legendary musician is high on his list of to-dos.
When the show's co-host, Billy Morrison, asked Osbourne who his dream collaborator would be, it took the Black Sabbath frontman a total of one second to respond with "Paul McCartney."
The Beatles have previously been cited as a “massive” influence on Black Sabbath, with Osbourne telling us in a 2020 NME cover feature that “I was an avid, fucking freaked-out Beatles fan”.
However, though Osbourne is keen to work with McCartney, he expressed some hesitation: “I would be honoured but I couldn’t…”
Perhaps it’s due to Osbourne’s previous attempt to duet with the musician. He once said he tried to get McCartney to play bass on a Black Sabbath song, but “he said he couldn’t improve on the bassline that was there. I said, ‘Are you kidding? You could piss on the record and I’d make it my life’.”
When picking out his top ten favourite songs for a 2004 feature with Rolling Stone, Osbourne picked out three Beatles classics and also saved a space for McCartney and Wings’ song ‘Live and Let Die’, the title track for the 1973 James Bond movie of the same name. Osbourne called the symphonic rock anthem “a fucking great song” before adding: “I Love it!”
"I'm a big Beatle fan and when I first met Paul McCartney, it was like meeting Jesus Christ "
When you're as a big a star os Ozzy Osbourne, there's likely not many people that could leave you starstruck, but during a recent episode of The Osbournes Podcast, Ozzy revealed that there was one fellow musician that left him in awe.
Paul McCartney and Ozzy Osbourne both had been in the business for years before they eventually met in the early 2000s.
The moment began when a stumbling Ozzy was in the studio. He gets wind of The Beatle lurking around the halls and makes his move. But, in fact, the story started a little earlier in the day as Ozzy had asked McCartney to play bass on his track.
Osbourne revealed he wanted ‘A Day In The Life’ by The Beatles to soundtrack his funeral and explained how he fell in love with the group. The Black Sabbath singer recalled: “I come from the backstreets of Aston in Birmingham, and it wasn’t a very cool place when I was growing up,” the singer began. “I used to sit on my doorstep and think, ‘How the hell am I going to get out of here?’ And then one day ‘She Loves You’ came on the radio”.
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