Veteran bassist and songwriter Bob Daisley, 75, who contributed heavily to Ozzy Osbourne’s early solo catalog as both a musician and lyricist, opened up in a recent interview with Loaded Radio’s Scott Penfold about being left out of Ozzy’s final Birmingham concert in July 2025 and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2024.
"Hey, you're not alone in thinking that [I should have been invited] and saying that. So many people did. It was me not being there and me not being asked to be there, was really the elephant in the room, wasn't it?" Daisley said, reflecting on the concert.
While Daisley emphasized he wasn’t personally upset by missing the show — citing a lingering inability to fly after contracting COVID — he did express disappointment at not receiving recognition during the event: "I couldn't have gone even if I'd wanted to, but a mention on the day, being that the whole audience was out there, thousands of people singing my lyrics, and I don't even get a mention. It seems a bit, um, what's the word? I don't know."
Daisley also highlighted being overlooked during Ozzy’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction: "People were speaking out about that. There were people putting messages up on their Instagram and on Facebook and saying, 'What the fuck? He doesn't even get a mention? He wrote all your fucking lyrics.'"
Asked about the deterioration of his relationship with Ozzy, Daisley described it as a complex, multi-layered situation spanning decades: "Well, really, for that, it's so complicated and so interconnected with all the different facets and things that happened… I went back and worked with Ozzy about three or four times, when I was asked to… They got rid of me right after the recording of Diary Of A Madman.
"Then I was asked back to do the third album, and then that didn't materialize 'cause Randy [Rhoads] was killed. But I did do the third album with Jake E. Lee. That was Bark At The Moon."
Daisley recounted the last time he spoke with Sharon Osbourne — during legal proceedings in 2001 related to royalties and credits for Diary of a Madman: "Probably in New York in about 2001… But, yeah, that was probably the last time I spoke to her. In the early days, Sharon and I got on really well, and Ozzy and I were close mates… I got on great with both of them. And the day that I heard that Ozzy died, I actually shed tears because there was a lot of memories that came flooding back."
Despite past conflicts, Daisley is open to reconciliation: "I would talk. I don't hate her. If there was something to talk about, of course I'd talk. I'm not a vindictive person and I don't hold grudges… Nobody likes to see people suffer. Well, I don't like to see people suffer."
