Ozzy Osbourne ‘More Than Honored’ by Rock Hall of Fame Selection

Ozzy Osbourne has shared his pleasure after being elected to the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame for a second time.

In a dialog with Billboard, the Prince of Darkness admitted incomes a second induction “feels massive. I’m greater than honored.”

“With each new music enterprise there’s all the time a specific amount of shock that comes if you see the followers embrace it, as a result of nobody needs to make a file and have it flop,” Ozzy continued, reflecting upon his solo profession. “I really feel like I used to be invited to a celebration in 1980, and it hasn’t stopped. Not dangerous for a man who was fired from his final band.”

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Ozzy Modified His Tune Concerning the Corridor

Osbourne wasn’t all the time so optimistic concerning the Corridor. When Black Sabbath was nominated for enshrinement in 1999, the singer infamously wrote an open letter slamming the establishment, saying: “Simply take our title off the record. Save the ink. Neglect about us. The nomination is meaningless, as a result of it’s not voted on by the followers. It’s voted on by the supposed elite for the trade and the media, who’ve by no means purchased an album or live performance ticket of their lives, so their vote is irrelevant to me. Let’s face it, Black Sabbath has by no means been media darlings. We’re a folks’s band and that fits us simply advantageous.”

Nonetheless, when Sabbath was inducted in 2006, Ozzy appeared to have a change of coronary heart. Years later, the Prince of Darkness expressed pleasure when his former guitarist, the late Randy Rhoads, acquired the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame’s Musical Excellence Award in 2021.

Extra lately, Osbourne admitted he was nervously hoping to be inducted as a solo artist.

“It’s been driving me mad,” Ozzy confessed in March. “It’s an honor that I’m nominated, however I’m not anticipating to get in. There’s Mariah Carey, there’s Cher, Lenny Kravitz. I’m up towards some severe folks. If I get in, I get in. If I don’t, I don’t.”