Previously unseen footage of a talkshow interview from 1974 featuring Ozzy Osbourne has resurfaced online.
The footage is taken from the music discussion show, Speakeasy, hosted by Chip Monck, a man responsible with coining one of rock music's most iconic on stage warnings; "The brown acid that is circulating around us is not specifically too good".
Produced by J Walter Thompson, the show featured star studded list of household names in its time, including: Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Bill Wyman, Dr John, Peter Gabriel, Alvin Lee, Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, John McLaughlin, Dave Mason, Jackson Browne, Steve Miller, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Waits and Frank Zappa.
Other stars interviewed on the show, include Black Sabbath icon Ozzy Osbourne and Deep Purple's Jon Lord after both bands had performed at the famous 1974 one-day festival at Ontario Motor Speedway in California.
The pair were joined by Mott The Hoople's Ian Hunter, a band who were also performing in California, playing shows with Aerosmith.
On the show, Ozzy Osbourne can be heard speaking about his first experiences touring in the USA.
"We got off the plane, and I was expecting gangsters," he said. "I was so terrified to go out, I stayed in my room for a week. I wouldn't go out because I was so frightened".
Like the other musicians on the show, Ozzy was also asked about the impact Rock and roll has had on his life.
"I wouldn't be doing nothing else," he explained. "It's like living in pain, but also living in the most incredible high in the world. I had to go and see a few head doctors now and again, because it was getting too much. It takes you from one life to another".
Despite the show being short lived, Chip Monck went on to work with household names like Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Muhammed Ali among others. He also worked as the lighting designer for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, as well as Pope John Paul II's visit to the city in 1987.
In fact, 2024 saw Monck inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Check out his interview with Ozzy Osbourne below.
Back in February, Ozzy Osbourne was posthumously honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Brit Awards, after being recognised as his “inimitable impact and influence on music worldwide”. Osbourne sadly passed away in July last year.
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