Zakk Wylde has revealed Ozzy Osbourne’s hilarious response when he was as soon as mistaken for Meat Loaf by an air stewardess.

In a brand new interview with Basic Rock – by which he remembers his experiences assembly various rock legends all through his profession together with Lemmy, Slash and Dimebag Darrell – the Black Label Society frontman remembers becoming a member of Ozzy’s band as a younger guitar participant at round 19 or 20.

Wylde says regardless of the nerves that got here with becoming a member of the band of Ozzy Osbourne – “a man whose data I had grown up listening to,” as he places it – the Prince of Darkness was, in reality, not a “massive rock star ego man”.

“If we ever acquired turned away from a restaurant as a result of they have been full, he’d by no means go: ‘Don’t you recognize who I’m?’ He’d go: “[deflated] I assume they don’t like Black Sabbath.”

Wylde remembers Ozzy telling him a narrative about him flying on a Concorde shortly after his Sabbath departure.

“He’s sitting there, bummed out, and the stewardess is like: ‘Oh, my God, I can’t consider it’s you!’ She’s giving him drinks, getting him meals, and he’s simply floored by it. He’s going: ‘Possibly issues aren’t so unhealthy.’

“Because the aircraft lands, she says: ‘Can I get an image?’ So she takes the photograph, after which she goes: ‘Oh, wow, thanks Meat Loaf!’ Ozzy’s like: ‘I actually fucking want to chop again on the energy.’”

Ozzy Osbourne died in July 2025 on the age of 76, simply two weeks after acting at Black Sabbath’s mega last-ever present, Again to the Starting at Villa Park in Birmingham, England.

Following the present and earlier than his demise, Ozzy was texting Wylde expressing a need to report one other album, Wylde remembers.

“He was saying, ‘I wish to make one other report, like whenever you have been going by way of your Allman Brothers/Lynyrd Skynyrd section with No Extra Tears. So it’ll be heavy however melodic.’ And I mentioned, ‘Certainly you have to be kidding.’ And he goes: ‘No, I’m not kidding – and don’t name me Shirley!’

“I used to be figuring Ozzy would do his rehab and hopefully get higher, and we’d make one other report and possibly Mother [Sharon Osbourne, Ozzy’s wife and longtime manager] would do that gig annually for charity and provides him one thing to attempt for.

“Each evening after I’m saying my prayers I say hello to him.”

Sam is the Affiliate Information Editor for Guitar.com and MusicTech. Completely immersed in music tradition for almost all of his life, Sam has performed guitar for 20 years, studied music know-how and manufacturing at college, and likewise written for the likes of Guitar World, Complete Guitar, Metallic Hammer and MusicRadar.