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It was a match made in heaven. Or, if you buy into the whole Prince of Darkness thing, hell.

During an appearance on step brother Jack Osbourne’s Trying Not to Die podcast this week, metal legend Ozzy Osbourne‘s eldest son, Louis Osbourne, sat down to have a familial chat about their late dad and one of the topics that came up was an obscure song that Osbourne tracked during the height of his early 1980s fame that also featured a just-about-to-be-famous Madonna.

The sons were talking about the bands that Ozzy loved and Jack noted that the metal godfather “really loved female vocalists,” adding that in the final years of his life wife/manager Sharon Osbourne really wanted Ozzy to do a duets albums with all-female singers. That prompted Louis to note that he has a rare 12″ vinyl at home that will blow Ozzy fans’ minds.

“Was (Not Was) did a duet with Madonna and my dad,” he said of the truly bizarre song “Shake Your Head” from the Detroit duo’s 1983 album Born to Laugh at Tornadoes. When Jack interrupted to remind him that the song actually featured Ozzy and actress Kim Basinger, Louis corrected him and said it “was Madonna originally… It was written for Madonna and Was (Not Was) and it was when dad was poppin’ in the early ’80s and so was she, but then she kind of like really f–kin’ popped and then didn’t give approval on the record.”

Louis said after Madonna, or her team, allegedly blocked approvals, Basinger — then just at the beginning of a decade-long big screen hot streak — hopped on the song as her team were trying to “make her a pop star as well.” Louis said the track, a banger with a perfectly perfect early 1980s Madonna dance floor vibe overlaid with Ozzy’s yearning vocals (“You can’t feed the hungry/ Can’t talk Shakespeare to a monkey”) is “somewhere out there.”

Last month, Don Was told Rolling Stone that Madonna “did a great job” on the song, but it didn’t “sound like Was (Not Was) to me anymore,” so they brought in Ozzy to pseudo rap over the electro pop tune. “We realized about eight years later that we had Ozzy and Madonna on parallel tracks,” Was said. “So we gave it to a remixer… and he turned it into a Ozzy/Madonna duet.” The remix by Steve “Silk” Hurley ended up on the Now Dance ’92 compilation after Was accidentally on purpose sent him the original Madonna vocal track along with Ozzy’s, with Louis noting that the original, never-released version, went top 10 on the U.K. dance charts, topping out at No. 4 in 1992.

Watch the conversation below.

If you managed to snag tickets to see Oasis on their triumphant Live ’25 tour this year, congratulations. If you didn’t and had your hopes raised last week when singer Liam Gallagher appeared to (once again) tease the possibility of additional shows next year, well, keep that bucket hat on the shelf for now because it sounds like it’s not at all a done deal.

As the group geared up for the launch of the final push of gigs in South America this weekend, Liam, as he does, hopped into the comments on an X user’s post last Wednesday (Nov. 12) after they asked if he was sad to see the tour end, saying “I’m not actually as I know things you don’t,” after earlier suggesting that his unexpected rapprochement with older brother songwriter Noel Gallagher was “only starting.”

Well, Liam was back in the comments on Wednesday (Nov. 19) when asked by a fan if anyone had “scolded you for saying ‘see u next year’?,” he replied, “there was a few tuts and raised eyebrows.” Another fan lamented that with just a few shows left they didn’t get to see a single gig and feared not surviving 2026 if there isn’t another tour next year. “WE NEED MORE,” they pleaded. Liam rubbished that anxiety talk and said, “stop being dramatic.”

Then, he threw yet another spanner in the works when asked to “just reply with one word is there gonna be a 2026 tour.” His answer, sorry to say, was “NO.” With the muddying of the water complete, another devastated superfan yelled, “ARE YOU F–KING SERIOUS,” to which Gallagher replied, “YES IM F–KING SERIOUS.”

It was all a bit soul-crushing, though Gallagher once again eased the door open a tiny crack in a lengthier response in which he said he will definitely be around next year, but, like, maybe not Oasis? “You will see me next year and the year after and so on just not sure yet if it’ll be with oasis we need to sit down and discuss these things,” he wrote. “If it was all up to me then you know we’d be touring till the day we die as it’s the best thing in the world but UNFORTUNATELY it’s not.”

If you simply cannot stand the suspense, get yourself down to São Paulo, Brazil’s MOrumBIS stadium on Saturday (Nov. 22) or Sunday (Nov. 23) for what sounds like the final shows by the reunited Britpop legends… for now, anyway.

See Gallagher’s comments below.