Late last year, Ozzy Osbourne’s widow and manager Sharon Osbourne called out Black Sabbath’s original manager Jim Simpson for allegedly trying to profit off of unreleased demos from the band’s pre-Black Sabbath project Earth. However, it appears they have since settled their legal dispute.

Sharon said the following during a recent appearance on “The Osbournes” podcast:
“We settled with Jim Simpson and the band now have their demos back. And all four of them [the original members of Black Sabbath] own it, which is where it should be. All of that stuff should be theirs. So it all ended well. So, yeah, they own them. We’re gonna talk about what everybody wants to do with it, and we’ll go from there.”
She went on to say that the Earth demos were “very different” from Black Sabbath:
“I just think it’s historically important — for music lovers of that genre. And then we got [the rights to] the pictures that were taken at that time too. So, that is all so important. I mean, listen, you [Jack Osbourne] want those pictures. Everybody in the band’s kids and grandkids would love to see [them]… It’s special. And I’m just happy that it’s where it should be — with the band, and [they can decide] what they wanna do as a band, what they’re gonna do with it. So that’s great.”
Sharon also thanked Simpson for settling:
“He did the right thing at the end of the day. He did the right thing for the band.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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