When Ozzy Osbourne brought Metallica on tour in 1986, he noticed his young opening act blasting Black Sabbath in their dressing room and covering his old band’s songs in soundchecks. Osbourne’s first assumption, he said later, was that Metallica were mocking him. He was stunned to learn they were actually displaying their hero worship, and trying to coax him onstage with them.

As discussed in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now , Osbourne — who died July 22 at the age of 76 — could be touchingly insecure for a beloved and wildly influential metal legend. (To hear the whole episode, go here for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts , or just press play above.) Those feelings of inadequacy, fueled by an impoverished childhood, were a

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