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14 авг 2025 :	GREAT WHITE's MICHAEL LARDIE On OZZY OSBOURNE: 'He Was Pretty Much The Guy That Made This Style Of Music'
5 авг 2025 :	MARK KENDALL On New GREAT WHITE Music: 'We Made A Lot Of Demos'
18 фев 2025 :	GREAT WHITE Guitarist MARK KENDALL On Band's Late Singer JACK RUSSELL: 'We Had So Many Special Moments' Together
29 дек 2024 :	ANDREW FREEMAN Reflects On The 'Sneaky' Way He Was 'Dismissed' From GREAT WHITE
11 дек 2024 :	GREAT WHITE's AUDIE DESBROW On New Singer BRETT CARLISLE: 'He's Put A Great Fire Under Our A****'
26 авг 2024 :	MICHAEL LARDIE Says GREAT WHITE Singer BRETT CARLISLE Is 'Really Involved' In Songwriting Process For New Music
24 июл 2024 :	Watch GREAT WHITE's Entire Performance In Toledo
16 июл 2024 :	Watch Pro-Shot Video Of GREAT WHITE Performing On 'KLOS Helpful Honda Rock Room' Stage
23 апр 2024 :	GREAT WHITE's MICHAEL LARDIE Praises New Singer BRETT CARLISLE: 'With His Vocal Range, We Can Do Pretty Much Anything'
30 янв 2024 :	GREAT WHITE's MARK KENDALL Talks New Music: 'I've Been Writing Like Crazy'
14 янв 2024 :	GREAT WHITE Bassist SCOTT SNYDER Undergoes 'Major Lower Back Surgery'
13 окт 2023 :	GREAT WHITE's AUDIE DESBROW: 'Our Singer Won't Be Wasted On Drugs' And 'Falling Off The Stage'
30 май 2023 :	GREAT WHITE Drummer Rules Out Reunion With JACK RUSSELL: 'It Just Couldn't Physically Be Possible, I Think'
11 май 2023 :	Watch GREAT WHITE Perform On This Year's MONSTERS OF ROCK Cruise
18 апр 2023 :	GREAT WHITE Is Demoing Music With New Singer BRETT CARLISLE
23 мар 2023 :	ANDREW FREEMAN Explains Why He Lasted Only Five Months As Singer Of GREAT WHITE
26 фев 2023 :	GREAT WHITE's MARK KENDALL Rules Out Reunion With JACK RUSSELL: 'Have You Seen Videos' Of His Recent Live Performances?
18 янв 2023 :	GREAT WHITE's MARK KENDALL On First Show With New Singer BRETT CARLISLE: 'He Went Out There And Just Totally Killed It'
30 дек 2022 :	Ex-GREAT WHITE Singer JACK RUSSELL: 'Every Time MARK KENDALL Gives An Interview, He Starts Talking S**t About Me'
22 ноя 2022 :	JACK RUSSELL Rules Out Reunion With GREAT WHITE: It 'Will Never Happen'
29 окт 2022 :	GREAT WHITE Singer BRETT CARLISLE Is Excited About Prospect Of Recording New Music With The Band: 'Let's Go'
25 окт 2022 :	New GREAT WHITE Singer BRETT CARLISLE: 'If They Want Me To Be The Guy To Do It, Then I'm Here For It'
25 окт 2022 :	TERRY ILOUS Looks Back On His Exit From GREAT WHITE: 'It Just Was Time To Go Separate Ways'
23 окт 2022 :	GREAT WHITE Officially Welcomes BRETT CARLISLE As Band's New Singer
22 окт 2022 :	GREAT WHITE's MARK KENDALL Praises New Singer BRETT CARLISLE, Explains Split With ANDREW FREEMAN
13 окт 2022 :	MARK KENDALL On Deadly GREAT WHITE Concert Fire: 'It Was The Most Horrific Thing'

14 авг 2025

GREAT WHITE's MICHAEL LARDIE On OZZY OSBOURNE: 'He Was Pretty Much The Guy That Made This Style Of Music'

In a new interview with Matt Bingham of the Z93 radio station, GREAT WHITE rhythm guitarist and keyboardist Michael Lardie paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, who died late last month at the age of 76. Asked if he has any Ozzy memories to share, Michael said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "A couple of things. We did do [the] Roskilde [festival] in Denmark, and they were the headliner — Ozzy solo. So we were able to see him — not really talk to him so much. But the best story I have is we were both on a flight to London together, the band and Ozzy and his solo band. And he was walking around the plane, saying hi to [original GREAT WHITE singer] Jack [Russell], and we were talking and chatting and all that stuff. And he's got a DAT player. I don't know if you remember those, the digital cassettes. And he's going around to the guys in the band and our management at the time, and he goes, [adopts British accent] 'This is my new record. Would you go take a listen to it?' And it was 'No More Tears'. And when you first put the headphones on and you hear that riff, you're just, like, 'Oh, my…' To me, that was kind of the height of his prowess as the Prince Of Darkness. He had a great guitar player with him, and it was just a great marriage of everything. And that record just had so much toughness and energy. And it was a treat to see him on the plane, for one, but then to be able to listen to that record before pretty much anybody else did, certainly the general public…"

Reflecting on Ozzy's legacy, Michael said: "You think about people that have been so important to our genre of music. He was pretty much the guy that made this style of music with SABBATH, and it kind of leapt on to… And I don't know how it couldn't be in anybody's DNA that plays hard rock. You've gotta have SABBATH in your thing. I mean, I remember listening to 'Master Of Reality' when I was like 12 and learning 'Sweet Leaf'. So that that part of what he meant to all of us is an incredibly cool thing. And the fact that we actually had some up-close-and-personal stuff with him as well is something I'll always treasure."

Asked by Bingham if the passing of some of these rock legends, like Ozzy and Jack, makes him "start to wonder" about GREAT WHITE's future at all and how long he and his bandmates want to stay out on the road, Michael said: "Well, it's hard to say. It all feels pretty good for us still at this point. And we were clocking the number of years — like Audie Desbrow, the [GREAT WHITE] drummer, and I have been in the band since '85, so this year is our 40th year. So when you look in those terms, of course you see your mortality on some level. You don't know how much longer you can actually do this, but at this point I can say that everybody's healthy, happy and still loves doing this. So it's hard to say — five, seven, ten years. It's hard to say, but we are blessed with having a catalog of music that people seem to respond to, and they wanna keep coming and seeing us. So, it's kind of that push-[and]-pull between the audience and us. If we have the ability to go out and play and we're still healthy enough to do it well, which is obviously very important to us, we're gonna keep doing it. The only thing that's probably difficult for what we do, the way we travel now, it's a different thing because we're like the weekend warrior. Like for this weekend, we're gonna come and see you guys. We're gonna be in Bay City [Michigan] on Friday and Morton, Minnesota on Saturday, which is like an hour and a half out of Minneapolis. So we got a back-to-back coming. So it's early flights. So that's probably the only downside I could possibly come up with. I mean, the fans have been fantastic. We're still getting 45 to 50 shows a year."

Ozzy died the morning of July 22, his family announced in a statement.

"It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time," the family said.

No cause of death was given, but Osbourne had battled a number of health issues over the past several years, including Parkinson's disease and injuries he sustained from a late-night fall in 2019.

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