Jack Osbourne On God Bless OZZY OSBOURNE - “I Was Essentially Fed Up With My Dad Having This Osbournes-Esque Image”
August 24, 2011, 13 years ago
Billboard.com recently conducted an interview with OZZY OSBOURNE's son Jack Osbourne. In the interview he talks about God Bless Ozzy Osbourne, his brand new documentary about the life of his father. An excerpt from the interview is below:
“Osbourne says that the DVD will include some more recent observations his father made about the death of guitarist RANDY RHOADS in a March 1982 airplane accident, which was inspired by audience comments at Tribeca. "People were frustrated there was nothing of my dad, present day, talking about Randy," Osbourne notes. "In the film we used an archival clip. We have a really emotional (interview) where my dad gets really into talking about Randy and his death and what it meant to him, how he feels this massive level of guilt and remorse over it. So we put that in the DVD." Osbourne says the idea of a soundtrack album, he says, "hasn't really come up, but we're not completely excluding it."
Ultimately, Osbourne is pleased that God Bless Ozzy Osbourne represents its well-caricatured subject in a way he hasn't been before.
"I was essentially fed up with my dad having this Osbournes-esque image in the mainstream media," he explains. "That's really frustrated me. Since 'The Osbournes' (reality TV show) he got sober and became a totally different person, and I wanted to kind of celebrate that. Everyone knows what he's done, so for me this was about more who he is as a person. The focus is not so much Ozzy as it is John. That's the story I wanted to tell."Read the entire interview here.
Ozzy Osbourne was absent for the private preview of his documentary God Bless Ozzy Osbourne on Monday, August 22nd at the ArcLight Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, CA. Artisan News caught up with Jack and Kelly Osbourne and asked the obvious question, where is he?
Jack: "I can neither confirm or deny who he's with or where he is."
Kelly: "My dad is with … ohhh, I don't know if I'm allowed to tell you (looking back at her mother Sharon) … but he's doing something that is very, very exciting."
The interviews add more to the rumours that Ozzy is behind-the-scenes working on the rumoured BLACK SABBATH reunion, but that is just pure speculation at this point! Read the latest official response regarding Sabbath here.
Check out the Artisan News report below:
God Bless Ozzy Osbourne, an exclusive in-theater Fathom event that will be broadcast to more than 400 movie theaters nationwide on Wednesday, August 24th and Monday, August 29th at 7:30 PM (local time).
Shot over the course of three years, audiences will experience the life story of Ozzy, as seen through the eyes of his youngest child, producer/filmmaker, Jack Osbourne, who worked alongside directors Mike Fleiss and Mike Piscitelli.
During the documentary, Ozzy will recount his troubled youth, his early career with BLACK SABBATH and the impact of fame and addictions on his first marriage. Viewers will also witness the second chapter of his life as a family man with Sharon, during which his addictions grew to a frightening level, as well as hear Ozzy and his children explain his attempts at staying clean, ultimately resulting in more than five years of sobriety. Music fans will also see live performances from around the world, including rare behind the scenes clips of Ozzy on and off stage, in his dressing rooms pre-show, to his nights in a series of hotel rooms. Throughout God Bless Ozzy Osbourne, audiences are given an inside look into the life of a rock star, from the good times to the bad.
Tickets for God Bless Ozzy Osbourne are available at participating theater box offices and online at FathomEvents.com. For a complete list of theater locations and prices, visit the NCM Fathom website (theaters and participants are subject to change).
Presented by NCM Fathom, Omniverse Vision and Eagle Rock Entertainment, God Bless Ozzy Osbourne will be broadcast to nearly 400 select movie theaters across the country through NCM's exclusive Digital Broadcast Network.
"This is the most honest portrait of my father. I set out to tell the truth - regardless of how raw it might be - and I think we accomplished just that," said Jack Osbourne.
Ozzy Osbourne is a multi-platinum Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy-winning musician. Osbourne's career has spanned four decades (as both a solo artist and as the lead singer of Black Sabbath) and his music is as relevant today as ever. Beyond his music career, Osbourne is an author (I Am Ozzy, 2010), advice columnist (Sunday Times, London and Rolling Stone, America) and the first to have a celebrity-reality television program (The Osbournes, which won a 2002 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program). God Bless Ozzy Osbourne will relive the highs of his triumphs as well as his voyage to sobriety, which Ozzy regards as his greatest accomplishment.
"During this exclusive Fathom event, Ozzy's son, Jack, will take the legion of Ozzy fans on an unbelievable journey experiencing a side of the music legend most have never seen," said Dan Diamond, vice president of Fathom.
A personal video invitation from Ozzy can be seen below: