“I look over at Zakk and he can’t work the fretboard. I’m screaming at him, ‘It’s from liftin’ them weights!’ I didn’t realize he’d taken all the antibiotics in the bottle”: How Ozzy Osbourne and Zakk Wylde became metal’s most beloved partnership

Ozzy Osbourne and Zakk Wylde.

Over the course of his solo career, the late Ozzy Osbourne worked with a long line of guitar greats, but his partnership with Zakk Wylde – who stepped into the fill the spot previously held down by Randy Rhoads and Jake E. Lee – is perhaps his most enduring. Wylde became Ozzy's longest-serving (and, for many, definitive) guitarist, and contributed to some of his greatest records and tours.

In this classic GW cover feature from May 2018, published around the time of Ozzy's farewell tour, the pair reflected on their three-decade partnership, and discussed how they became metal's most beloved pairing...