Ozzy Osbourne wanted Jimmy Page for 'Patient Number 9' album: "Maybe he'd lost his phone"

If you're feeling bad about that text message you sent that got left on read, it might be comforting to know that even Ozzy Osbourne doesn't always get an answer back.

In an interview with Metal Hammer, the Prince of Darkness shares that he reached out to Jimmy Page to appear on his upcoming new solo album, Patient Number 9, only to get crickets from the Led Zeppelin legend.

"I don't even know if he plays anymore, but I thought getting Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page meant having the greatest guitarists on the planet," Ozzy shares. "But I never heard from him. Maybe he'd lost his phone or something!"

Osbourne's comments follow an interview Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, who plays on Patient Number 9, gave to the Talk Is Jericho podcast earlier this year, during which he said that there was an attempt to recruit Page for the album.

While the potential Page collaboration didn't come to be, Patient Number 9 features a ton of other guests, including Clapton, Beck, Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi, Pearl Jam's Mike McCready, Black Label Society's Zakk Wylde, Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses, Metallica's Robert Trujillo and late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.

Patient Number 9 will be released September 9.

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