justin Hawkins Clarifies Comments about Yungblud’s Authenticity

The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins has clarified his comments about Yungblud’s authenticity as a rock star, saying he never “intended to incite a feud” and emphasized that “it’s OK to be a bit skeptical.”

The issue started after the band’s guitarist Dan Hawkins criticized the artist – whose real name is Dom harrison – for his performance paying tribute to Ozzy Osbourne with Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt at the MTV VMAs. He called Harrison, and his fellow performers “a bunch of bellends.”

Justin Hawkins later expanded on Dan’s comments on his YouTube channel, describing the performance as “rock n’ roll seen through an Instagram filter of some sort” and adding: “Yungblud seems to have positioned himself as a natural heir to the Ozzy legacy, having nothing to do with the really important stuff.”

In response, Yungblud…