SHARON OSBOURNE: ‘BOB DAISLEY Is A ‘Sad Old F*ck’ Who ‘Can’t Get Over The Fact’ That He Was Fired From OZZY’s Band’

Sharon Osbourne has slammed bassist Bob Daisley as a “sad old f*ck” who “can’t get over the fact” that he was fired from Ozzy Osbourne‘s band.

Bassist sued the Osbournes several times over unpaid performance royalties. Daisley continues to get paid his songwriting royalties for the songs he wrote on Ozzy‘s Blizzard Of Ozz album and the follow-up, Diary Of A Madman.

Asked if Ozzy‘s first post-BLACK SABBATH album was initially intended as a band project, Sharon responded: “Never, never, never. The bass player, Bob Daisley, has said that over the years. He’s a sad old f*ck that played on two of the greatest albums in the [rock] genre, and he can’t get over the fact that we didn’t use him further. Like it was, ‘Goodbye. See ya.’ And he’s never gotten over it. And several lawsuits later — he tried to sue us three times — each time thrown out of court. Thrown out of court three times. He’s tried to change history, and it just won’t fit. It was never a band. There’s no way. It was Ozzy Osbourne.”

When asked in an interview with Celebrity Access Encore. Asked if Ozzy‘s first post-BLACK SABBATH album was initially intended as a band project, Sharon responded: “Never, never, never. The bass player, Bob Daisley, has said that over the years. He’s a sad old f*ck that played on two of the greatest albums in the [rock] genre, and he can’t get over the fact that we didn’t use him further. Like it was, ‘Goodbye. See ya.’ And he’s never gotten over it. And several lawsuits later — he tried to sue us three times — each time thrown out of court. Thrown out of court three times. He’s tried to change history, and it just won’t fit. It was never a band. There’s no way. It was Ozzy Osbourne.”

Sharon also talked about her decision to remove the playing of Daisley and drummer Lee Kerslake from the 2002 reissues of “Blizzard Of Ozz” and “Diary Of A Madman”, replacing the original recordings with tracks from Ozzy‘s then-current bassist and drummer, Robert Trujillo and Mike Bordin, respectively. Admitting that she is a “mean bitch,” Sharon said the tracks were re-recorded with new players “just to teach [Bob] a lesson.”

According to Sharon, when she and Ozzy and were putting together his first solo band, they were in Los Angeles first, and then in England. “We started off in L.A. yeah. That is where Ozzy found Randy [Rhoads]. Couldn’t find a bass player or a drummer. Bob Daisley had been working with Jet Records for awhile with WIDOWMAKER. He was like a session player. If you look up Bob Daisley‘s list of credits, I think he was in about 12 different bands because he was a session player.

“So my brother said, ‘Well, we’ve worked with Bob. Why don’t you try him because he’s a good bass player?’ And he is and was a good bass player. So we said, ‘All right, we will try him.’ Then when we couldn’t find a drummer, Bob said, ‘I have a mate, Lee Kerslake, looking for a gig’ and that’s how Lee Kerslake played on the first two records as well.”