Ozzy Osbourne Shares Cocaine Story With Lemmy Kilmister

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The Prince of Darkness recalls the time where he canceled a line of shows with Motorhead in the early ’80s because he and Lemmy Kilmister spent the whole week using cocaine together. This happened during a brief respite from Ozzy’s first solo road trip, as he has just been fired from Black Sabbath then.

In an interview with NME, Ozzy shared, โ€œWe had a few days off so I went round toย Sharonโ€™s fatherโ€™s house, and Lemmy came with us. Eventually it was time to go back on tour, but Iโ€™d been doing coke all fucking week. I come out into the yard and Lemmy comes out and his face is fucking whiter than a ghost. He looks at me and he goes, โ€˜Fuck me, man, I hope I donโ€™t look as bad as you.โ€™ If Lemmy Kilmister says that to you, you must be fucking bad. I just went, โ€˜Cancel the gigs.โ€™โ€

Ozzy also said that Kilmister’s passing in 2016 hurt him deeply, saying, โ€œIt fucked me up bad. He was a good man. To look at Lemmy, youโ€™d think he had about two brain cells, but he was very knowledgeable. I wish you could have seen his apartment โ€“ fucking hell! It was like the Imperial War Museum. I used to buy Nazi daggers for him when I was on the road and bring them back for him. He must have had 10,000 fucking German daggers.โ€

He recalled Kilmister’s last shows with the band, along with his final months. โ€œI couldnโ€™t believe how thin he was. He was a fucking bag of bones. I could see he was very ill, but he kept it to himself. I phoned him on the day he died,” Ozzy said. “Sharon and I were gonna go down to his apartment and see him. I phoned up his apartment, and I donโ€™t know who the fuck it was answered it, but I wanted them to say it was okay to come down. On the third or fourth phone call, they said, โ€˜Heโ€™s gone.โ€™โ€

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