Rock icon’s ex-songwriting partner on Hall of Fame speech snub: A mention ‘would have been nice.’

Bob Daisey, the original bassist for Ozzy Osbourne’s “Blizzard of Ozz” incarnation of the band, isn’t surprised that he was not mentioned in the Prince of Darkness’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction speech.
The bassist and songwriter spoke about this at length in an interview with Tone-Talk.
“It’s kind of what I expected,” said Daisey. “I didn’t expect to be mentioned or anything. Regardless of how important my role was or what I created or helped to create or whatever, I really didn’t expect to even get a mention. I mean, it would have been nice.”
Daisey initially met Osbourne after the frontman was fired from Black Sabbath in October 1979. From there, Daisey and Osbourne had a lengthy and rocky musical partnership. Daisey played bass and co-wrote songs from Osbourne’s first solo album, “Blizzard of Ozz,” and the 1981 follow-up “Diary of a Madman.” Both Daisley and drummer Lee Kerslake were fired from the band.
Daisey and Kerslake then sued Osbourne in 1988 for royalties and credits on both albums. The suit was dismissed in 2003 by the United States District Court in Los Angeles. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit later upheld the ruling.
In the interview, Daisey mentioned that he and Kerslake had “been taken out of photographs, been taken out of films, had credits removed, had photographs removed, all that stuff.”
Despite this, Daisey would later return to the Osbourne fold and write/play on albums such as 1983’s “Bark at the Moon ” and 1991’s “No More Tears” before the partnership ended.