Ozzy Osbourne Suing AEG

Ozzy Osbourne has filed a lawsuit against AEG over its block booking policy requiring artists who want to play the O2 Arena in London to also play Staples Center in Los Angeles. Osbourne is seeking an injunction to force AEG to abandon the policy and is asking a judge to find that the block booking policy violates U.S. antitrust laws.More »

By on March 22, 2018

Ozzy Osbourne has filed a lawsuit against AEG over its block booking policy requiring artists who want to play the O2 Arena in London to also play Staples Center in Los Angeles. Osbourne is seeking an injunction to force AEG to abandon the policy and is asking a judge to find that the block booking policy violates U.S. antitrust laws. In his lawsuit against AEG, Osbourne’s attorney Daniel Wall, with Latham Watkins, accuses AEG of being a “monopolist for arena-sized venues in greater London” that “through management contracts it also controls a number of other large concert venues in greater London in addition to the O2,” including The SSE Arena at Wembley and the summer concerts series at Hyde Park. The lawsuit claims that earlier this year, Osborne’s U.K. promoter Live Nation sought to book the O2 for Ozzy’s farewell ‘No More Tours 2,’ noting Live Nation “requested a date in February 2019, which AEG said was available-but only on the condition that Ozzy be bound by the Staples Center Commitment,” a document that says artists playing the O2 must agree to play Staples Center when performing an indoor concert in Los Angeles for a large arena audience. Copyright(c) 2018 RTTNews.com. All Rights ReservedLess «