Launch Radio Networks has issued the following report from Don Kaye:

OZZY OSBOURNE has listed his five favorite hard rock bands for Spinner.com. The list includes LED ZEPPELIN, MOTÖRHEAD, NIRVANA, GREEN DAY and, of course, his own group, BLACK SABBATH.

Osbourne said about his Number One choice, Led Zeppelin, "I can remember walking through Birmingham with Geezer Butler, the bass player from Sabbath, and he knew (Zep singer) Robert Plant. Plant was walking through the subway and I'd heard his voice. And Geezer says to him, 'What are you up to?'Plant says, 'Well, they asked me to join a band called the New Yardbirds (which became Zeppelin).' And that was it... The first two albums had such an impact on my voice, and on my life, similar to the Beatles when I first heard them."

About Black Sabbath, Osbourne said, "One of the things with Sabbath: We had full control over what we were doing and how we wanted it laid out. People would come in the studio and give us a suggestion and we'd go, 'Would you f***ing get out of here right now?' We had full artistic control."

On Nirvana: "Apparently, I met (late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain), 'cause I was talking to Dave Grohl and he said, 'You probably don't remember this, but when you were in Devonshire Studios in the (San Fernando) Valley, me and Kurt were in the room where they had a pool table. When you walked in we were like, 'F***ing hell'.'"

Osbourne called Green Day's American Idiot album "f***ing brilliant."

Osbourne's new album, Black Rain, debuted at Number Three on the Billboard album chart last month. The CD's first single, 'I Don't Wanna Stop', is currently Number One at rock radio.

The singer will headline this summer's free Ozzfest, which begins on July 12th in Seattle.