Ozzy Osbourne's family has struck back at Roger Waters' viral comments about the late rocker with a cheeky merchandise campaign that's sure to turn heads. Months after Waters, now 82, stated in an interview that he "couldn't give a f---" about Ozzy's band Black Sabbath, the star's official shop released a T-shirt that takes aim (quite literally) at the Pink Floyd member.
The back of the shirt features an image of someone in an Ozzy tee urinating a rainbow onto what appears to be the cover of Waters' 1990 album The Wall: Live in Berlin. The text "Another Prick in the Wall" appears in Pink Floyd's iconic font, paying homage to the band's 1979 song "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2." The front of the shirt features the same album cover, but with "OZZY RULES" graffitied over it in large letters.
The description of the shirt, which is only available for 48 hours, reads, "Well... Ozzy RULES, and that's all we have to say."
The feud between the two began in August when Waters expressed his disdain for Sabbath in an interview with The Independent Ink just weeks after Ozzy's death on July 22 at age 76. "I don't care about Black Sabbath, I never did. I have no interest. I couldn't care less," he said. "Ozzy Osbourne, who just died, bless him, in his whatever that state that he was in his whole life. We'll never know, you know? Although he was all over the TV for hundreds of years with his idiocy and nonsense."
In September, Ozzy's son Jack, 40, responded with a statement shared to his Instagram Stories. "Hey @rogerwaters. F--- You. How pathetic and out of touch you've become," he wrote. "The only way you seem to get attention these days is by vomiting out bulls--- in the press." He added, "My father always thought you were a c--- - thanks for proving him right," before posting a second Instagram Story that said, "# f---rogerwaters."
On The Osbournes podcast in November, Jack, his mom Sharon, 73, and sister Kelly, 41, further discussed their dislike of Waters, with Sharon calling him "one of the most twisted, sick individuals I’ve come across in years." Kelly added that Waters is "boring" with "no charisma [and] no stage presence," while Jack found it "funny" that "probably the most press he's had in years was me responding to him."
"Dad would always be like, 'I love Pink Floyd, I f---ing hate Roger Waters,'" said Jack. "But Dad would never say that publicly, because you don't do that. All [Waters] would’ve had to say was, you know, 'I didn't really know Ozzy’s music very well. It’s sad for his family.' That’s all he had to say. You keep it simple, you keep it clean, you don’t punch down like he did."
