Dee Snider and Kelly Osbourne got locked into a war of words after Kelly accused the Twister Sister vocalist of diminishing her late father’s musical contributions.
The spat kicked off on social media earlier this week, seemingly triggered by Snider suggesting that Ozzy’s songwriting contributions were overstated on the credits of his solo and Black Sabbath material.
When a fan brought up Motörhead‘s Lemmy, who is credited with co-writing a number of songs on Ozzy’s 1991 ‘No More Tears’ album, including ‘I Don’t Want to Change the World’, ‘Mama, I’m Coming Home’ and ‘Hellraiser’, Snider wrote: “I know too much about the truth behind the scenes. Let’s just say that [Osbourne’s wife and longtime manager] Sharon doesn’t like to share.”
Another user later said bassist Bob Daisley had written a “load” for Ozzy before being fired in the early ’80s, to which Snider responded: “A load? How about ALL the lyrics? Ozzy always had bass players write his lyrics. [Black Sabbath bassist] @geezerbutler wrote ALL of @BlackSabbath lyrics. Daisley wrote lyrics for the first two solo albums (I’m pretty sure he was paid to write on other records but not credited) & Lemmy wrote lyrics.”
