“I always wanted to reconcile, tell him there weren’t any hard feelings and end things on a friendly note. I got to do that”: Jake E. Lee had a hero’s welcome at Back to the Beginning – but mending his rift with Ozzy Osbourne was what meant the most

English musician Ozzy Osbourne and Jake E Lee perform in concert, New York, New York, circa 1986. (Photo by Larry Busacca/WireImage).

Things might have gotten messy during his time in Ozzy Osbourne’s band in the early ‘80s, but Jake E. Lee can set that aside and because of what the late Prince of Darkness meant to him.

“He changed everything for me,” Lee tells Guitarist. “He put me in the spotlight. Whether that would have happened if I hadn’t been in his band is anybody’s guess.”