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    Roger Waters has defended his Ozzy Osbourne comments following the late rocker's death in July

    After Ozzy, 76, passed away last year following a long battle with Parkinson's disease, Pink Floyd frontman Waters, 82, dismissed Ozzy's pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, insisting he "couldn't care less" about the Paranoid rockers.


    Speaking to The Independent Ink, he added: "Ozzy Osbourne, who just died, bless him, in his whatever that state that he was in his whole life. We'll never know... Although he was all over the TV for hundreds of years with his idiocy and nonsense."

    And, he doubled down after being blasted by Ozzy's widow Sharon Osbourne.

    During an appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored, the host said: "So I do want to end with something which was quite personal to me, because it involved a friend of mine, which was after Ozzy Osbourne, your fellow rock star..."

    But Roger interrupted to say: "Oh shut up! Well, I mean, do I have to like every rock group there ever was?"

    Piers said: "Did you have to trash him in such a personal way so soon after he had died?"

    When asked if he would say sorry for upsetting Sharon, Roger said: "Of course I will, not that I have any time for Sharon, she is a raging Zionist...

    "She's accused me of all kinds of things because she is part of the Israeli lobby.

    "Jack [Ozzy's son], if he wants to have a chat, I'll have a chat, and I won't be nasty to him. Well, I'm, you know, yeah, I'm sorry you lost your dad, Jack, but this is like, you have conversations about things and about people, what do you think?

    "Well, not a lot. I was honest. I said I didn't like Black Sabbath... I don't like people who bite the heads off bats. I just don't. I think it's disgusting, and I've said that again now.

    "I know he's dead, and he can't come back and go, 'Yeah, I'm sorry I bit the heads off bats,' if he ever did. Who knows whether he did or not? I don't want to talk about it."

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