Kelly Osbourne Blasts Dee Snider as “Spectacularly Classless” Over Ozzy Lyric-Writing Claims

Kelly Osbourne has publicly attacked Dee Snider, calling the Twisted Sister frontman “spectacularly classless” after he claimed on X that her late father, Ozzy Osbourne, rarely wrote his own lyrics. The dispute began on August 12, 2026, and escalated over several days into a series of public posts on X and Instagram between Osbourne and Snider. Ozzy Osbourne died in July 2025 at age 76 after suffering a heart attack.

• Dee Snider claimed on X that bassist Bob Daisley wrote “ALL” the lyrics for Ozzy’s first two solo albums and that Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler “wrote ALL of Black Sabbath lyrics.”
• Snider also said Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister wrote lyrics for songs on Ozzy’s 1991 album “No More Tears,” including “I Don’t Want to Change the World,” “Mama, I’m Coming Home,” the title track and “Hellraiser.”
• Kelly Osbourne, 41, responded on Instagram Stories on August 14, 2026, defending her father’s legacy and later calling Snider “a delusional man with a vendetta” and “just a bitter old man.”
• Snider, 71, is set to be replaced by former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach on Twisted Sister’s upcoming 50th anniversary tour after resigning earlier in 2026 due to health issues.

How the Dee Snider and Kelly Osbourne Feud Started

The exchange began on August 12, 2026, when Dee Snider responded on X to a fan post noting that Bob Daisley had written “a load” of Ozzy Osbourne’s lyrics. Snider replied, “‘A load’? How about ALL the lyrics? Ozzy always had bass players write his lyrics,” adding that Geezer Butler “wrote ALL of Black Sabbath lyrics” and that Daisley wrote lyrics for Ozzy’s first two solo albums, with Lemmy Kilmister also contributing lyrics.

When another user brought up Lemmy Kilmister’s co-writing credits on Ozzy’s 1991 album “No More Tears,” Snider wrote that he knew “too much about the truth behind the scenes” and added, “Let’s just say that Sharon doesn’t like to share,” referring to Ozzy’s wife and longtime manager, Sharon Osbourne.

Kelly Osbourne Defends Her Father’s Legacy

Kelly Osbourne posted to her Instagram Stories on August 14, 2026, writing that “My father’s legacy as a musician, songwriter, singer and bandleader speaks for itself” and that his fans “know exactly what he meant what he contributed and what he leaves behind.” She added that his legacy “will live on eternally.”

In a follow-up post, she directly addressed Snider, noting that his “last hit,” Twisted Sister’s 1984 single “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” came out the year she was born. She called it “spectacularly classless” for Snider to try to diminish her father’s “extraordinary abilities and achievements” when he is no longer alive to challenge the allegations, adding that Snider “cannot claim to know the private reality” of her father’s life.

Osbourne went further, describing Snider as “a delusional man with a vendetta” against her father and saying she believed the two men were “maybe in the same room once if even at all.” She contrasted their careers, writing that Snider “had a brief period of mainstream success more than 40 years ago” while her father’s career “spanned nearly six decades, from helping define heavy metal with Black Sabbath to building an extraordinary solo career.” She suggested Snider’s comments were an attempt to get “people talking about him again,” and closed by thanking him “for allowing the world to see how truly desperate he really is,” adding that her father “doesn’t need Dee Snider’s approval to establish his place in music history.”

Dee Snider Responds to Kelly Osbourne

Snider replied on X on August 14, 2026, writing, “To be clear, I HAVE NOTHING BUT LOVE FOR OZZY. He was always lovely to me. Black Sabbath changed my life! As a songwriter I can be a little touchy about credit and royalties.”

Kelly Osbourne fired back, calling his clarification “a backhanded compliment dressed up as nothing but love.” Paraphrasing Will Smith’s 2022 Oscars remark, she told Snider to “keep my father’s name out of your f–king mouth,” calling him “just a bitter old man” whose “past is over.”

The day after his clarification, Snider posted again, addressing Kelly, the music press and “all the rest of you idiots who confuse apples with oranges.” He insisted he thought “Ozzy Osbourne was a metal god, icon, legend, game changer & a really great guy,” but added, “NONE OF THAT CHANGES WHO WROTE HIS LYRICS!”