LITA FORD Recalls The Day She Asked SHARON OSBOURNE TO Manager Her
August 26, 2011, 12 years ago
'Kiss Me Deadly' and the OZZY OSBOURNE duet 'Close My Eyes Forever' made LITA FORD a household name, but the former RUNAWAY connected with Sharon Osbourne immediately.
“I thought she was fantastic, and I asked if she would be my manager," she recalls to MLive.com. "I was sitting on the Queen Mary, where it’s docked now in California, with all these little restaurants and oyster bars inside, and I gave her a call. It was crazy, I already had everything in place, I had signed with RCA, but I just wanted her to fill those shoes.”Ford made the call - “Sharon was a very powerful lady but I figured the worst that could happen is that she’d hang up on me,” she said - and Osbourne answered with a drawled out, “Yes, of course.”
“I celebrated on the spot with my oysters and Bloody Marys,” Ford said.In the years since, she’s blazed the trails for many more women, in music and out.
“I"m really proud of people who can stand up and follow their dreams, and if I was part of the soundtrack, well, that’s what it’s all about. Go for it, girl!”
That’s just what she did nearly 15 years ago, when she was pregnant with her first son.
“I wanted to devote myself to being a mom,” she remembered. “I had been touring so long - I started on the guitar when I was 11 and I was 38 then - and I decided, after 27 years, it was time to disappear.”A second son came along, and now, she said, “they’re at the point where they don’t need me hanging around all the time,” she said. “And I missed rock ‘n’ roll. It’s still great, and there are still people who don’t get it.
“But when I get out there, yeah, it’s the best!”Read the entire interview here.
