AC/DC star MALCOLM YOUNG owes his life to Ozzy Osbourne after the British rocker broke up a bar fight between himself and BLACK SABBATH star GEEZER BUTLER.

The 1977 incident, during which a drunk Butler pulled a knife on the Aussie rocker, has become a rock myth, but Young insists it really did happen.

He recalls, "We were staying in the same hotel, and Geezer was in the bar, crying in his beer, saying 'Ten years I've been in this band, ten years - wait until you guys have been around 10 years. You'll feel like us.' I said, 'I don't think so.'

"I was giving him no sympathy. He'd had too many (drinks) and he pulled out this silly flick knife.

"As luck would have it, Ozzy walked in, and he goes, 'You f***ing idiot, Butler. Go to bed!' Ozzy saved the day, and we sat up all night with him."

04/09/2003 09:24