Hear Judas Priest’s charity version of War Pigs with Ozzy Osbourne

Judas Priest and the late, great Ozzy Osbourne teamed up for a charity cover of War Pigs, which has been released today (September 26).

Raising money for The Glenn Tipton Parkinson’s Foundation and Cure Parkinson’s, the rendition came about because Priest weren’t able to make the Back To The Beginning mega-show, and thought of this instead as a wonderful tribute.

Speaking to Full Metal Jackie (via Blabbermouth), Priest icon Rob Halford teased earlier this month, “What is cool and what is kind of waiting in the wings is Ozzy singing with me doing War Pigs together… We’re just having to go through all the rigmarole of legal clearance and so on and so forth. But when Sharon said, and this is just so beautiful, when she approached me with this idea, she said, ‘I love your version of War Pigs. Is there a way we can get Ozzy [on it as well]?’ I said, ‘You’re asking me?! This is gonna happen.’ So we were able to make it work.

“So you get Ozzy singing a line, and then I’m singing a line and Ozzy’s singing a line and I’m singing a line, and it’s the first-ever time in my entire life that I’ve been able to do a duet with Ozzy. And I’m so eternally grateful and blessed and grieving that I was able to do that. But when you hear it, it’s just colossal.”

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