JACK OSBOURNE Slams ROGER WATERS Over OZZY: 'My Father Always Thought You Were a C@#$%'

Summary

• Roger Waters dismissed Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath, saying he ‘couldn’t give a f@#$%’ about their music.
• Jack Osbourne fired back on Instagram, calling Waters ‘pathetic’ and repeating Ozzy’s opinion of him as a ‘c@#$%.’
• The clash follows Ozzy’s death in July at age 76, with fans still sharing tributes while Waters’ timing raised eyebrows.

Jack Osbourne did not tiptoe after Roger Waters said he never cared about Black Sabbath and “couldn’t give a f@#$%” about Ozzy Osbourne, Jack answered with a blunt message of his own.

The back-and-forth kicked off after Waters’ recent video chat with The Independent Ink, where the former Pink Floyd leader spoke dismissively about both Ozzy and Sabbath.

Waters’ remarks, delivered with his usual deadpan and a shrug, landed poorly across metal circles. Jack Osbourne took that personally.

He posted on Instagram, “Hey Roger Waters, f@#$% you,” and accused the bassist of chasing headlines by “vomiting out bull@#$% in the press.” He added, “My father always thought you were a c@#$%,” capped with the tag #f@#$%rogerwaters.

Well, Subtle diplomacy did not attend this exchange.

Ozzy Osbourne died on July 22 at 76. His certificate listed an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and coronary artery disease, with Parkinson’s disease noted.

The document also did something the music press has done for decades. It called him a “Songwriter, Performer and Rock Legend.”

What Roger Waters Said

In the Independent Ink interview, Waters referred to Ozzy in the past tense, then waved off his discography entirely:

“The music, I have no idea. I couldn’t give a f@#$%.” He widened the blast radius to Black Sabbath, saying he never cared about the band and tossing in a line about having no interest in “biting the heads of chickens or whatever they do.”

That last bit misses the actual lore. Ozzy infamously bit the head off a dove during a label meeting and a bat he believed was fake on stage.

Chickens were not involved.

The bat incident happened during Ozzy’s solo career, not while he was in Black Sabbath. Heavy music myths multiply faster than you can fact-check them.

Jack Fires Back

Jack Osbourne did not parse footnotes. He went straight for the source.

“Hey Roger Waters, f@#$% you,” he wrote on Instagram.

He called Waters “pathetic” and “out of touch,” arguing the only way the Pink Floyd co-founder trends now is by stirring the pot.

The closer was barbed: “My father always thought you were a c@#$%.” Hashtag deployed. Topic settled. At least for Jack.

Jack’s stance mirrors the tone many fans took after seeing the clip. Ozzy was widely mourned this summer, with tributes from across rock and metal.

Long History

There is context? Yes. Ozzy Osbourne spoke well of Pink Floyd over the years. He once named “Money” among his favorite rock songs in a 2004 interview with Rolling Stone as cited by Far Out.

Waters, on the other hand, has thrown shade at Sabbath before. He reportedly delivered a scathing reaction to the band’s early track “Evil Woman” back in 1970, according to Far Out Magazine.

The gulf is not new. It is just louder this week.

Waters also took a swipe at the Osbournes’ reality-TV era in the interview, framing it as cultural “idiocy.”

You can criticize a show. You can roll your eyes at a brand. When someone has just died, people tend to read the room a little more closely. Waters chose not to. Jack chose not to let it pass.

SO, Why It Stung?

Ozzy’s final months played out in public, including candid updates about his health. Fans and peers rallied around him.

The man had already returned to stages for symbolic moments despite serious mobility issues. When Waters tossed off “I couldn’t give a f@#$%,” it undercut that goodwill.

Even if you never liked “Paranoid,” there is a basic courtesy when someone’s death is fresh.

The factual slip about “chickens” did not help. These details matter in a genre that cares about lore. Get the animal wrong and the whole point looks sloppy.

Sabbath helped define heavy music. Ozzy’s solo run expanded it. You can dislike it. You can also admit it changed the map.

1. Jack Osbourne defended his father with heat.
2. Roger Waters delivered a cold pint of indifference.
3. Ozzy Osbourne remains one of the most influential figures in rock and metal.

Those three truths can live in the same paragraph.

There will be more arguments about legacies. There always are. For now, the story is simple. A son heard someone dismiss his dad and answered in kind. Strong feelings. Strong language.

No mystery there.

Check out the instagram post. 👇

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And here’s the Roger Waters full interview. 👇

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