Ozzy Osbourne hails Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister as his personal “rock god”

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Ozzy Osbourne has hailed the late, great Lemmy Kilmister as his own “rock god” in a new tribute.The Black Sabbath frontman opened up on his love of the Motorhead singer when asked about the artists who inspire him, in a new interview with BBC Radio 2’s Johnny Walker.The hard-living rock icons were close friends, and Lemmy co-wrote a wide array of Osbourne’s solo tracks before he died from cancer in 2015.My rock god is Lemmy Kilmister.

Lemmy was a guy – he shot from the hip every time. ‘That sucks,’ or, ‘I like that’,” said Ozzy.“I’m good at starting lyrics, but I can’t finish them.

And he’d go – he’d write a bunch of lyrics for my songs – ‘Mama, I’m Coming Home.’“So, I’d give him a tape, and I had this book on World War II.