Andrew Watt opens up about losing his friend and collaborator Ozzy Osbourne.
The 34-year-old songwriter and producer who worked on Osbourne’s last two albums – the 2020s Ordinary man and the 2022s Patient number 9 — and was the musical director for Ozzy’s 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame performance, calling the Black Sabbath frontman’s passing “a heavy, heavy loss.”
“We made two albums together and we talked every day for seven years straight,” Watt shared People Magazine. “He’s one of my best friends, the funniest guy on the planet and my teacher.”
“I think about it every minute of every day. It comes to me in my dreams. It’s something I’ll never get over. I’m just going to somehow learn to live with it and I’m trying really hard, but it’s still just really fresh,” he added.
Watt recalled spending time with Osbourne the night before his final Black Sabbath show at England’s Villa Park on July 5. “He wanted me to come to the hotel and listen to some music that we were working on,” he said.
“We had a curry together that he wasn’t supposed to eat because it was bad for his voice the day before the show, but he loved curry more than anything.”
The last conversation Watt had with Osbourne was the day before his death. “We were just texting back and forth the same way we always talked. I think he said, ‘Hey, s******, where are you?’ I was in France at the time,” he recalled.
For the three-time Grammy winner, Osbourne’s death is “such a loss to the world.” Watt added, “I feel like the world is less cool without him in it. He was one of those people who was just a reason for joy and laughter, had the biggest smile of anyone ever, and was so funny. It’s just really hard right now.”
