JUDAS PRIEST is honoring Black Sabbath with a "charity" version of "War Pigs", featuring the late Ozzy Osbourne!
The song drops tomorrow, as all profits will be donated to The Glenn Tipton Parkinson's Foundation and Cure Parkinson's.
"He gave everything on stage. When he walked out on the stage, he was always beaming. Rob Halford said of Ozzy. He loved his fans with such an extraordinary passion, but that existed offstage as well. Whenever I'd see him, if I went to see a show, the first thing he would say to me was, 'Did you have a good time? Did you enjoy yourself? Was it great?' And so that part of him as a person — he was always giving stuff. He was always giving out. He wasn't a taking kind of a guy. He was always pushing stuff forward, paying it forward, whatever that expression is. So that part of Ozzy that we probably didn't see much of existed when he wasn't on stage."
PRIEST couldn’t appear at the "Back To The Beginning" final performance of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath, because the band performed at SCORPIONS' 60th-anniversary concert.
"It was a really difficult thing to say, 'I can't do it,' but that was just the way the chips fell on that particular event," Rob said. "However, we were there in spirit, as we said in that brief little thing that we said for Ozzy on the big video screens. And probably even more important, the PRIEST homage to BLACK SABBATH with our — it's not really a version; it's JUDAS PRIEST playing BLACK SABBATH's 'War Pigs' to about as close as we possibly could. “