Judas Priest Recorded a Cover of ‘War Pigs’ With Ozzy Osbourne Before His Death: ‘So Eternally Grateful and Blessed’

Judas Priest person agelong been opening their shows with a screen of Black Sabbath‘s iconic 1970 azygous “War Pigs.” The motion of emotion toward 1 of dense metal’s founding fathers was taking spot earlier vocalist Ozzy Osbourne died connected July 22 astatine property 76, and to perceive Priest vocalist Rob Halford archer it, it volition proceed agelong aft arsenic well.

“She [Ozzy’s wife/manager Sharon Osbourne] approached maine with this idea, she said, ‘I emotion your mentation of War Pigs. Is determination a mode we tin get Ozzy?’ I was [like], ‘You’re asking me? This is gonna happen!,'” Halford told the Full Metal Jackie podcast this week.

Halford said the set is presently going done the ineligible channels to wide the song, which helium described as, “Ozzy singing a enactment and past I’m singing a enactment and Ozzy’s singing a enactment and I’m singing a line. It’s the archetypal ever clip successful my full beingness that I’ve been capable to bash a duet with Ozzy and I’m truthful eternally grateful and blessed that I was capable to bash that. When you perceive it, it’s conscionable colossal. You deliberation that you’ve heard the 1 acquisition of Priest’s ‘War Pigs,’ but erstwhile you perceive Priest’s ‘War Pigs’ with Ozzy singing connected that track, it’s conscionable going to a truly peculiar place.”

Though nary merchandise day has been announced yet, Halford said “the greenish button’s astir acceptable to go,” with the artwork being finalized. “But I deliberation it’s gonna beryllium beauteous soon,” helium said.

Halford has spoken astir how gutted helium was to miss the last Ozzy amusement due to the fact that Priest was double-booked to execute with the Scorpions successful Germany connected the time of the all-star Back to the Beginning gig successful Birmingham connected July 5 that marked Osbourne’s last unrecorded performance; the set released a unrecorded version of Sabbath’s anti-war anthem anterior to the Back to the Beginning show.

He precocious described learning astir Osbourne’s decease and the affectional interaction it had connected him. “I conscionable enactment the telephone down successful my edifice room… and I conscionable curled up successful a shot and bawled my eyes retired for hours,” Halford, 74, said.

But Halford is besides keen to support a diamond successful his caput astir the metallic deity who meant truthful overmuch to him, describing to Jackie who Osbourne was off-stage arsenic well. He said that contempt his Prince of Darkness nationalist persona, Ozzy, “represented this different broadside of him that you didn’t spot onstage, which is… He gave everything onstage. When helium walked retired connected the stage, helium was ever beaming, you know? He loved his fans with specified an bonzer passion, but that existed offstage arsenic well.” He said whenever helium saw Ozzy astatine 1 of his shows the archetypal question helium would inquire was “‘Did you person a bully time? Did you bask yourself? Was it great?'”

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