Ozzy: 'I didn't understand Maiden beef'

Ozzy Osbourne has claimed that he never understood why Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson fell out with him.

The Black Sabbath singer told The Quietus that his wife Sharon only arranged for eggs to be thrown at Iron Maiden during 2005's Ozzfest after Dickinson badmouthed his group on stage.

Ozzy said: "Unbeknown to me, every night he was going on stage slagging me off. And that wasn't fair. If he didn't like the f**kin' tour, he should have said 'I'm jumping the f**kin' tour', but to go on stage and f**kin' slag me off for no reason... I'd never said a f**kin' bad thing to him.

"Sharon got p*ssed off... it was nothing to do with me. I suppose Sharon got p*ssed off. I'll back my wife up to the hilt, but I didn't know what was going down. "

He added: "I don't like all that s**t going down. If you don't like me, just say, 'I don't like you, I'm doing this festival but I think you're a c**t'. That's all right. But to go on my stage and start slagging me off - that ain't fair. They weren't f**king slagging me off when they got paid every f**king night."

"To this day I don't understand what the f**kin' beef was. I just don't get it. To go on the Ozzfest and slag off, that's crazy. I really think he needs a f**kin' psychiatrist if he does that, he's f**king nuts. It's an irresponsible f**kin' thing to do. Sharon must have got pissed off with this c**t, you know."