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Ozzy Osbourne helped to form Black Sabbath back in 1968 in Birmingham, England, alongside Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward. With the release of their self-titled debut album in 1970, Heavy Metal was born and they changed the whole Rock and Roll scene. Three years later, the brothers Angus and Malcolm Young created in Australia AC/DC, which would become one of the most influential Hard Rock bands of all time. Ozzy was always a big fan of the group and he once even revealed which is his favorite album by them. The AC/DC album Ozzy Osbourne said is his favorite AC/DC was curiously Black Sabbath's opening act in the '70s, but they were kicked off that tour after a disagreement between Geezer Butler and Malcolm Young. However, there was never any bad blood between Ozzy and the band, and he has always praised the hard rock group. In an interview with Rolling Stone in 2017, he listed his 10 favorite Metal albums of all time. One of them was AC/DC's "Highway To Hell" (1979). "I love Brian Johnson but to me my good friend, the late Bon Scott, was the best singer AC/DC ever had. This album was like an addiction to me," he said.  Later on, in 2020, he told Broken Record Podcast that Bon Scott was his favorite one. “Bon Scott was a great singer. I mean, Brian [Johnson] is good. But I prefer Bon.” "Highway To Hell" was the final AC/DC album with the late legendary singer Bon Scott, who tragically passed away in 1980 at the age of 33. Besides the famous title-track, that record also had songs like “Touch Too Much”, “Shot Down in Flames”, “If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It)” and “Night Prowler”. Scott was replaced by Brian Johnson, who was able to even make the band more successful with incredible albums they released, like "Back In Black" (1980). Osbourne said that Angus Young is like a machine In 2011 Ozzy Osbourne recorded a special video for the premiere of the DVD “AC/DC: Live At River Plate”. He praised the band and called Angus "a machine". (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage): “I’ve met AC/DC for the first time touring in Sydney with Black Sabbath. I remember thinking ‘these can’t be around touring using so much energy at every concert, they’re (not gonna be able to do that in a few years).” He continued: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l482T0yNkeo&pp=ygUPaGlnaHdheSB0byBoZWxs “Angus is like a machine that never stops. He keeps going and going. He still got the fucking energy, man, they are a really great bunch of guys. They are my friends, are real people. I love them all, God bless them. (…) There is no other band in the world like them. (They) are a meat and potatoes band. There is no bollocks, there is no fucking around. Whether  you like them or you don’t and I’m proud to say I love them,” Ozzy Osbourne said. In 2016, Angus Young was promoting the band's album "Rock or Bust". He recalled in a video at the time that Ozzy used to call them "meat and potatoes". “I play guitar when I feel like playing guitar. That’s how I learned to play. It was a never, ‘You must do that.’ It was a case of you wanted to do that and you felt like doing it. The music has a lot of power. It’s simple, but it’s also kind of complex.” “Ozzy Osbourne calls us ‘meat and potatoes’. So it’s as good a description as any. You’re trying also to communicate to the whole building. You’re hoping that that sound gets to the very back of the hall. So that they’re getting the same feeling as the people who are close,” Angus Young said. The post The AC/DC album Ozzy Osbourne said is his favorite appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

As the search for UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s killer goes on, New York police late Saturday released two additional photos of the suspected shooter that appeared to be from a camera mounted inside a taxi. The first shows him outside the vehicle and the second shows him looking through the partition between the back seat and the front of the cab. In both, his face is partially obscured by a blue, medical-style mask. Retracing the gunman’s steps using surveillance video,...

Ahmad, a young man from Yemen whose name has been changed for safety reasons, was recruited by an intermediary for a supposedly well-paid job in Russia. But instead of working in a Russian coal mine, he found himself, against his will, on the front line in the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. Other Yemeni witnesses told DW similar stories. They reported that a group of 24 friends and acquaintances had been lured to Russia with false promises of work...

Britain’s intelligence services have launched a summer internship programme – but white British students are banned from applying. MI5, MI6 and GCHQ are offering students the opportunity of a paid internship next summer, promising that the opportunity represents the “first steps towards an exciting full-time career”. It says that summer interns will not “just be sitting on the sidelines – this is your opportunity to get unique access to our operations, gain experience, and make...

In his first sit-down news interview since winning a second presidency in November’s election, Donald Trump renewed promises to pardon his supporters involved in the attack on the US Capitol in early 2021. He also doubled down on promises of mass deportations and tariffs in the conversation with NBC’s Meet the Press host Kristen Welker – the latter of which he acknowledged could cause Americans to pay more after riding voters’ complaints about higher prices back to the...

France’s President Emmanuel Macron staged an impressive return to the world stage using the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral as an opportunity to broker talks between Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President-elect Donald Trump against a backdrop that eclipsed other European leaders. The ceremony came at the end of a challenging week for the French president, after the collapse of the government, which left the country rudderless. Two days before the ceremony Macron was vowing to...

The Russian Foreign Ministry has confirmed that Bashar Assad has stepped down as Syrian president and left the country following negotiations with armed opposition groups amid the fall of Damascus to Islamist forces. In a statement issued on Telegram on Sunday afternoon, officials clarified that Moscow was not involved in the talks but acknowledged Assad’s decision to transfer power “peacefully.”