Andrew Watt just confirmed what fans have been whispering about since Ozzy Osbourne’s final albums: there are unreleased Ozzy songs, and he’s heard them. The producer of Ordinary Man and Patient Number 9 told Rolling Stone the tracks were made“for a specific reason,”adding,“And, yeah, that’s all I can say. They’re hard for me to listen to.”When asked whether fans might ever hear them, Watt offered a loaded“kind of.”Take from that what you will.
The songs are tied to a night Watt won’t forget. The evening before the July 2025 Back to the Beginning concert, he came to Ozzy’s Birmingham hotel room, curry in hand, and joined Sharon and the team to listen to the new material together, making notes like any other session. It was the last time Watt saw Ozzy, who passed about two weeks later. Watt has repeatedly credited Ozzy with launching his career, comparing that instinct to the way Ozzy championed Randy Rhoads and Zakk Wylde, and noting that his decision to bring Yungblud on for“Changes”changed the young singer’s life.
Meanwhile, the Back to the Beginning concert film premiered in Los Angeles on October 14 and hits wide release October 28, so fans have a way to celebrate the legend on the big screen while we wonder what’s coming next. Is it unthinkable to release the unheard tracks, or the exact tribute Ozzy would have wanted? Sound off below.
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