Ozzy Osbourne said he had finished with the “Rock Star lifestyle” before Black sabbathThe last live show of this this summer.
During a recent interview with The guardianThe Prince of Darkness confirmed that The huge concert of the legendary metal group at Birmingham’s Villa Park on July 5 It would be the last time he would occur on stage.
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It came after his wife and manager, Sharon, said in the conversation that “it’s time to say” enough “” for her and Ozzy. “When you have given everything, you can sit down and say: I did it,” she added.
Explaining that the couple would retire with them in the buckinghamshireSharon said to the publication: “(We are going) get ponies and chickens, and a million dogs. I want to open a dog rescue center and a horsepower rescue center. Criez to neighbors a few times. That’s.”
Ozzy then said: “I would love to say” Never Say Never “(on more performance in the future), but after the last six years … it’s time.”
This follows the icon undergoing several surgeries and encounter many health problems in recent years, especially Parkinson’s disease.
“I lived on the road for 50 years, and I have somehow used to not picking up my bags and taking the bus,” continued Ozzy. “I don’t smoke drugs or no longer do the lifestyle of Rock Star. I’m a bit like a home. “
He continued: “I never go out. I never hang out in bars-I don’t drink. So what is it for me? I hate shopping with my wife. I want to stab my neck after half an hour. But it’s time for me to spend a little time with my family, I don’t want to die in a hotel room somewhere.
In 2020, Ozzy looked at the buffoonery of the suspension of his previous career during an interview with Nme. He was dismissed by Black Sabbath in 1979, the group citing his too zealous consumption of drugs and alcohol.
Ozzy once Strier a anthem to outdo Nikki Sixx from Mötley Crüe, before licking his urine on the groundand famous bite the head of a live bat and Dove.
“Well, I can’t deny these stories because I probably made them,” he said Nme. “I was fucking crazy when I was doing this whole shit – out of my mind – but what people did not see was the next morning when I woke up and I go: ‘Oh my God!’
“I am lucky to have a friend in the world, no matter a woman. I have certainly experienced the Rock’n’Roll lifestyle, but the musical scene since these days has radically changed. To start, none of us sells any more records. ”
Earlier this year, Ozzy once remembered “28 alcohol gallons” to go to ChristmasAfter Sharon revealed that he was “stoned” in each episode of their reality show Osbournes. In 2022, The singer said he had stopped having acid in the 1970s, after a trip that left him “standing by speaking to (a) horse for about an hour”. He added: “In the end, the horse turned around and told me to fuck. That’s it for me.”
In 2018, Ozzy confirmed that he was no longer drinking alcohol or no longer taking drugs. “I don’t smoke tobacco,” he said at the time. “(…) I’m fine at the moment. He continued: “I think now:” How did I think of entering a bar and breaking and making this cocaine was fun? “”
But last fall, the legendary singer admitted that He was “not completely sober”And had been “tempted” to use “stronger drugs” due to his current health problems. “I use a little marijuana from time to time,” he said.
In the same new interview with The guardian,, Ozzy sought to play the last black Sabbath show in good health. “I will be there and I will do my best,” he promised. “So all I can do is introduce yourself.”
He suggested that he “could sit” on stage, following reports that he would occur from a “throne flying on the stadium”.
“Were I only play a few songs each. I don’t want people to think “we are scammed”, because it will be … what is the word? … A sample, you will get some songs each by Ozzy and Sabbath, “Ozzy told the newspaper.
It came shortly after the singer revealed that he was “in strong training” for the next farewell concertAnd was back in the gymnasium. He too said he would only “make small pieces” with Sabbath At Villa Park in the middle of his health problems: “I do what I can, where I feel comfortable.”
Earlier this year, Ozzy said he couldn’t “not walk” Following Parkinson – but Sharon said Nme that his illness “does not affect his voice”. “He wants to thank everyone,” said Sharon to Villa Park. “He didn’t have this chance because of his illness, but now he’s lucky.”
Despite this positive perspective of the Osbournes, Tool‘s Maynard James Keenan – of which The group appears on the programming stacked “ back to the beginning ” – recently said he can take “modern miracles” to bring Ozzy on stage.
Meanwhile, the Sabbath bass player Geezer Butler has admitted that he has “nightmares” and “palpitations” Before the last historical performance of the group.