Alex Van Halen confirms that a Van Halen album fronted by Ozzy Osbourne was almost a reality in the early 2000s.

Ozzy confirms that he was close to recording an album with Van Halen. Alex Van Halen: Ozzy Osbourne and Chris Cornell Were in Running to Front Van Halen

Alex Van Halen’s memoir Brothers is out next week. To promote it, the Van Halen drummer sat down with Rolling Stone for his first interview since the death of his brother and bandmate, guitar god Eddie Van Halen.

"It is something that if it had come to fruition, would have been phenomenal," said Osbourne in a new interview with 'Rolling Stone'

Alex Van Halen reveals that Ozzy Osbourne was in the frame to front a new look Van Halen at the start of the millennium, and Ozzy says that he was up for it