Ozzy & Sharon Osbourne
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Pushkin Industries
4.5 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Just before the release of his first solo album in over a decade, Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon sat with Rick Rubin to talk about his tumultuous career that's spanned five decades. Friends since the early '80s, they discuss the early days of Black Sabbath, Ozzy's first encounter with his late guitarist Randy Rhoads, and how blown away Rick is by the power of Ozzy's voice at 71 years old.
Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | It's been 50 years since Black Sabbath released Iron Man, but its guitar riffs are still |
| 0:16.2 | some of the hardest and darkest in rock history. |
| 0:20.6 | While Black Sabbath is often given credit for creating heavy metal, none of its members |
| 0:24.4 | had the success or longevity of their original frontman, Ozzy Osborne. |
| 0:29.2 | In the 80s, Ozzy successfully turned his Prince of Darkness alter ego into a decades-long |
| 0:33.9 | career. |
| 0:34.9 | What felt from his manager and wife Sharon Osborne, Ozzy's released 11 solo albums, |
| 0:40.5 | with seven of them going multi-platinum. |
| 0:43.3 | They also created Oz Fest, a touring metal festival that became a mecca for metal fans |
| 0:47.7 | everywhere myself included. |
| 0:50.2 | And of course, they had their pop culture crossover moment with the reality show The Osborne's |
| 0:54.5 | on MTV. |
| 0:56.2 | Ozzy and Rick Rubin first met when Rick had just moved to LA and the two became fast |
| 1:00.5 | friends. |
| 1:01.5 | Their friendship eventually turned into Rick producing the last Black Sabbath record, |
| 1:05.5 | the reunion album from 2013. |
| 1:08.1 | Ozzy's mostly kept a low profile since then, but at 71 he's back to making music. |
| 1:13.2 | He has a new album called Ordinary Man, its his first solo album in a decade. |
| 1:18.9 | Rick Ozzy and Sharon sat on the bus at Changelot to talk about the record and how a gift from |
| 1:23.2 | his father turned an ordinary boy from Birmingham, England into the Prince of Darkness. |
| 1:32.0 | This is Broken Record, liner notes for the digital age. |
| 1:34.8 | I'm Justin Richmond. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Pushkin Industries, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Pushkin Industries and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.