Sharon Osbourne gets even
2005-08-27 14:05
Los Angeles - How do you silence Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson? You pull the plug during his band's show, of course.
Looking to settle a score with the heavy metal front man, Sharon Osbourne, wife of rock icon Ozzy Osbourne, admitted she cut the band's power during a southern California concert on this summer's Ozzfest tour.
"Yes, I did cut Iron Maiden's sound," Osbourne said in a letter to Iron Maiden's manager, Rod Smallwood. Among other indiscretions, she accused Dickinson of badmouthing her husband from the stage throughout the tour.
During the same show earlier this month, Iron Maiden's members were pelted with eggs and debris from the crowd.
"Dickinson got what he deserved," Osbourne wrote. "Was Dickinson so naïve to think that I was going to let him get away with talking ... about my family night after night?"
Smallwood, in a statement on Iron Maiden's website, said the band deserved an apology "from a number of people, and you know who you are."
"In 30 years in this business and after attending hundreds of gigs, l have never seen anything anywhere near as disgusting and unprofessional as what went on that night," Smallwood said.
- AP