Andrew Watt is speaking out about the loss of his friend and collaborator Ozzy Osbourne.
The 34-year-old songwriter and producer, who worked on Osbourne’s last two albums – 2020’s Ordinary man and 2022 Patient number 9 — and served as musical director for Ozzy’s 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame performance, called 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 said. 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 learn to live with it, and I’m trying very hard, but it’s still very fresh,” he added.
Watt recalls spending time with Osbourne the day before his final Black Sabbath concert at Villa Park in England on July 5. “He wanted me to come to the hotel and listen to some music we were working on,” he said.
“We ate a curry together, which 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 the same way we always talked. I think he said, ‘Hey, shit, where are you?’ I was in France at that time,” he recalls.
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. He was one of those people who was just an element of joy and laughter, who had the biggest smile ever and was so funny. It’s really, really hard right now.”
