Metal icon Ozzy Osbourne has revealed that fear of wife Sharon's retribution was the main motivation behind his new album.
Ozzy Osbourne has no need to make new music. After four decades in the music industry the singer has helped to invent and then revolutionise heavy metal music, sparking waves of imitators.
Releasing his autobiography earlier this year, Ozzy Osbourne followed the book with a new studio album. Recorded in his home studio, 'Scream' ends a three year silence from the rock icon.
So why the return? "It's called my wife Sharon's left boot," he joked. Speaking to the BBC, the singer insisted that music is his main motivation. "With that TV thing I do, I did that reality thing for a few years. That's not really what I'm about. That was a kind of an experiment that went crazy. It was okay for my ego for five minutes but I'm basically a rock 'n' roller. That's my passion."
The lead single from 'Scream' was given its world premiere on the American television show CSI, but the rock icon seems unfazed by the attention. "Sharon goes: 'Ozzy! Come in here!,'" he recalled.
"And they're playing and I'm looking and going, 'What am I watching?' It was so foreign with all the racket going on in there and I'm thinking my wife's gone nuts. Then I listened and it was pretty cool. That's a new one for me."
Elsewhere, Ozzy Osbourne confessed that he refused to use new technology on the grounds that he can't quite get to grips with it. "I don't own a computer, I couldn't work one if I tried. I don't own a cellphone, I have an assistant," he explains.
"Do you know when that hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans it shut everything down and they didn't have a back-up system and so everyone relied so much on this stuff that people were dying because they couldn't get any help."
"We all rely on this technological stuff so much the art of conversation is dying - in fact, I get in the car with my assistant and my wife and they are on the phone all the time and I am sitting there like a dork."
Ozzy Osbourne's new album 'Scream' is out now.
