Ozzy Osbourne is “very emotional” about his upcoming farewell live performance along with his Black Sabbath bandmates, regardless of not with the ability to stroll on account of his battle with Parkinson’s illness.
The “Godfather of Heavy Steel” will be part of the unique members of Black Sabbath — Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Invoice Ward — for the primary time in 20 years for one closing present, titled The Again to the Starting, on July 5 at Villa Park in Birmingham, England.
His spouse, Sharon Osbourne, not too long ago instructed The Solar that “he’s very completely happy to be coming again and really emotional about this.”
“Parkinson’s is a progressive illness,” she added. “It’s not one thing you possibly can stabilize. It impacts totally different components of the physique and it’s affected his legs. However his voice is nearly as good because it’s ever been.”
Osbourne additionally shared on his Sirius XM radio present Wednesday, per The Unbiased, “I’ve made it to 2025. I can’t stroll, however you already know what I used to be pondering over the vacations? For all my complaining, I’m nonetheless alive. I could also be moaning that I can’t stroll however I look down the street and there’s those that didn’t do half as a lot as me and didn’t make it.”
Osbourne has confronted a number of well being challenges lately, together with a fourth spinal surgical procedure. He additionally revealed his Parkinson’s illness prognosis in 2020.
A number of years in the past, he instructed Rolling Stone UK that he was “fucking pissed off at” by no means getting the “likelihood to say goodbye or thanks” to his followers on account of retiring from touring. He added that his aim was to be “nicely sufficient to do one present the place I can say, ‘Hello guys, thanks a lot for my life,’” so he’s lastly making that occur with the Black Sabbath reunion present.
“It’s my time to return to the start…time for me to offer again to the place the place I used to be born,” Osbourne stated in an announcement on the upcoming live performance, the Related Press reported. “How blessed am I to do it with the assistance of individuals whom I really like. Birmingham is the true residence of metallic. Birmingham endlessly.”
The Again to the Starting present will even function performances from different main metallic bands together with Metallica, Slayer and Alice in Chains.
