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Forbes
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Ozzy Osbourne Scores Multiple New Hits Following His Final Concert
Ozzy Osbourne returns to multiple U.K. charts after his farewell show in Birmingham, with 'Mama, I'm ... More Coming Home' and The Essential debuting. LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 10: Musician Ozzy Osbourne signs copies of his album "Patient Number 9" at Fingerprints Music on September 10, 2022 in Long Beach, California. (Photo by) Ozzy Osbourne played his final show earlier this month in Birmingham, England, the city where he first made a name for himself as a musician. Both Osbourne and his band Black Sabbath performed to a huge crowd at a charity concert that doubled as a farewell for the two acts. Fittingly, both Black Sabbath and Osbourne storm the charts in the United Kingdom following the event. As fans honor their contributions and mourn the end of a decades-long run as pioneers in the hard rock space, Black Sabbath takes up more space than Osbourne across various tallies, but the rocker himself also manages to score both a new album and a song debut. The Essential Ozzy Osbourne Compilation Debuts More than 20 years after The Essential Ozzy Osbourne compilation first reached the charts in the U.K., the set debuts again. This week, the hits-packed project opens at No. 49 on the Official Albums Downloads ranking. It marks Osbourne's sixth appearance on the list, and it stands as his only charting album at the moment. "Mama, I'm Coming Home" Reaches Several Charts At the same time The Essential arrives, one of Osbourne's most famous compositions reaches two rankings for the first time. "Mama, I'm Coming Home" opens at No. 90 on the Official Singles Downloads chart and No. 93 on the Official Singles Sales list. Throughout his career, Osbourne has earned four hits on both of those purchase-only rankings, and "Mama, I'm Coming Home" brings him back to the rosters with a new tune for the first time in half a decade. He last debuted on the tallies alongside Elton John with "Ordinary Man" in early 2020. "Mama, I'm Coming Home" Spent Decades Between U.K. Debuts "Mama, I'm Coming Home" may be new to the Official Singles Downloads chart, but the track itself is far from new. Osbourne first pushed the tune to the Official Singles chart back in 1991, when it peaked at No. 45. The popular, which is one of the rocker's most famous, needed more than three decades to reappear on the U.K. charts. 'Crazy Train' Also Returns "Mama, I'm Coming Home" doesn't manage to find space on the Official Rock & Metal Singles chart, but another one of Osbourne's most iconic tracks does reach that genre-specific tally. "Crazy Train" reenters the 40-spot roster at No. 38.
Daily Mirror
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Sharon Osbourne shares health update on hubby Ozzy before last Black Sabbath gig
Black Sabbath will perform for the final time at Villa Park today - and it could well be the last time we see frontman Ozzy Osbourne on stage after his health has rapidly declined Sharon Osbourne has given a concerning update on her husband Ozzy's health as Black Sabbath gears up for their final performance at Villa Park today. The band, widely recognised as the pioneers of heavy metal music, could be performing for the last time due to 76 year old Ozzy's deteriorating health. Sharon, who also manages Ozzy, had previously told him that his 2019 tour would be his swansong. This was particularly pertinent as he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease midway through the tour. Ozzy attributed an intermittent numbness in his leg to years of drug abuse and excessive drinking, reports Birmingham Live. The European leg of the tour was postponed to allow Ozzy to recuperate at home. However, disaster struck when Ozzy "stupidly" decided to try "diving into bed". The rockstar hadn't turned his light on and mistakenly thought he knew where his bed was, resulting in him crashing onto the floor. According to Sharon, this accident exacerbated an old quadbike injury that Ozzy sustained in 2003. He was rushed to intensive care and informed that he would need surgery or risk becoming paraplegic. Ozzy described it as the "worst f***ing surgery you can imagine" and now regrets not seeking a second opinion on his injuries. The operation involved placing two metal plates on either side of Ozzy's spine, but the screws soon became loose, causing lesions and bone fragments. "They still haven't found out the damage, it's so intricate," Sharon Osbourne revealed about her husband Ozzy's health struggles. She shared that they found another surgeon who worked to remove all of the metal from Ozzy's spine. She continued: "Five operations later, it just f***ed his body. It was torturous for him: Parkinson's and damage to his spine. It's just been horrendous." Despite his health issues, Ozzy has remained active in his career. He released the critically-acclaimed album Ordinary Man in 2020 and followed it up with Patient Number 9 in 2022. In 2022, he performed at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham alongside his Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi. However, the legendary frontman had to have a bracket supporting his back throughout the performance. Known for his wild on-stage antics, including biting the head off a bat, Ozzy admitted he was at his lowest, "praying to die in his sleep" when Sharon suggested reuniting the original Sabbath line-up for a final gig. She also wanted to bring together bands that had been inspired by them. Ozzy and Tony formed Black Sabbath along with drummer Bill Ward and bassist Geezer Butler in 1968. Some of the biggest names in rock, including Guns 'n' Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Slayer, Alice in Chains, and Van Halen, signed up to play the gig, having been inspired by Sabbath. With Metallica, Rage Against the Machine and members of Judas Priest joining the billing, the all-day show has been hailed by some as the greatest ever heavy metal line-up of all time. When discussing their upcoming performance, Sabbath members had mixed expectations. Tony Iommi joked that Ozzy Osbourne will probably be "sitting on a throne," while Ozzy himself predicted it might just be a "couple of songs" from both the band and his solo ventures. Ozzy admitted, while he's tempted to use the phrase "never say never", this concert signifies the curtain call for a career that has stretched over fifty years of touring. Sharon Osbourne added lightheartedly that the couple plans to "get some ponies and chickens" and settle into a peaceful retirement in their Buckinghamshire home post-tour.
Wales Online
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Wales Online
Ozzy Osbourne admits he 'couldn't' duet with idol Paul McCartney
Ozzy Osbourne admits he 'couldn't' duet with idol Paul McCartney The Black Sabbath frontman, 76, previously tried to get the Beatles legend, 83, to record a bass part on the heavy metal band's track Ozzy Osbourne's life will be chronicled at the museum (Image: Ross Halfin ) Ozzy Osbourne would love to collaborate with Sir Paul McCartney - but "couldn't". The Black Sabbath frontman, 76, previously tried to get the Beatles legend, 83, to record a bass part on the heavy metal band's track, which he declined, but he still dreams about being on a song with the Let It Be hitmaker. In a new episode of his SiriusXM show Ozzy Speaks, he was asked by co-host Billy Morrison who he'd like to duet with, to which he replied: "Paul McCartney." However, he swiftly added: "I would be honoured but I couldn't..." Ozzy has spoken about the legendary Liverpool band being a huge influence on him since he was a young man. He once told Heat magazine of their failed collaboration: "Meeting Paul McCartney was f****** phenomenal. Article continues below "I was in the studio at the same time as him and tried to get him to play bass on one of my songs. But he said he couldn't improve on the bassline that was there. I said, 'Are you kidding? You could p*** on the record and I'd make it my life.'" Ozzy previously said he wishes he could have collaborated with late Beatles frontman John Lennon. He told The Sun: ""John Lennon if he was alive. [I'm a] giant f****** Beatles fan. "And I'd have to have Jimi Hendrix, right?" Ozzy's last solo album, 2022's Patient Number 9, featured a long list of guest artists, including Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Zakk Wylde, Pearl Jam's Mike McCready, Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers, late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, Metallica's Robert Trujillo, Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses, and Jane's Addiction's Chris Chaney. Ozzy is currently preparing to play his last concert with Black Sabbath at the Back To The Beginning concert at Birmingham's Villa Park on July 5. Article continues below Special guests include Metallica, Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan, Duff McKagan and Slash of Guns 'N Roses, Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst, Korn star Jonathan Davis, and Anthrax.
Time of India
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Ozzy Osbourne says he 'couldn't' perform with his idol Paul McCartney
Black metal legend Ozzy Osbourne has shared that while he would love to collaborate with Sir Paul McCartney there's something which stopped that from happening. The Black Sabbath frontman, 76, previously tried to get The Beatles legend, 83, to record a bass part on the heavy metal band's track, which he declined, but he still dreams about being on a song with the 'Let It Be' hitmaker, reports 'Female First UK'. In a new episode of his SiriusXM show 'Ozzy Speaks', he was asked by co-host Billy Morrison who he'd like to duet with, to which he replied, "Paul McCartney". However, he swiftly added, "I would be honoured but I couldn't". Illness forces McCartney to cancel concerts As per 'Female First UK', Ozzy has spoken about the legendary Liverpool band being a huge influence on him since he was a young man. He once told Heat magazine of their failed collaboration, "Meeting Paul McCartney was f****** phenomenal. I was in the studio at the same time as him and tried to get him to play bass on one of my songs. But he said he couldn't improve on the bassline that was there. I said, 'Are you kidding? You could p*** on the record and I'd make it my life'". Ozzy previously said he wishes he could have collaborated with late Beatles frontman John Lennon . He told 'The Sun', ""John Lennon if he was alive. (I'm a) giant f****** Beatles fan. And I'd have to have Jimi Hendrix, right?". by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Giao dịch vàng CFDs với sàn môi giới tin cậy IC Markets Tìm hiểu thêm Undo Ozzy's last solo album, 2022's Patient Number 9, featured a long list of guest artists, including Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Zakk Wylde, Pearl Jam's Mike McCready, Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers, late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, Metallica's Robert Trujillo, Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses, and Jane's Addiction's Chris Chaney. Ozzy is currently preparing to play his last concert with Black Sabbath at the Back To The Beginning concert at Birmingham's Villa Park on July 5. Special guests include Metallica, Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan, Duff McKagan and Slash of Guns 'N Roses.
Irish Times
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
‘I don't want to die in a hotel room somewhere': Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath on reconciling for their final gig
On a video call from his home in Los Angeles, Ozzy Osbourne is struggling to recall the exact details of recent years, ones he calls 'the worst of my life'. 'How many surgeries have I had?' he wonders aloud. 'I've got more f**king metal in me than a scrap merchants.' The trouble began in earnest in early 2019, when he was midway through what his wife and manager Sharon Osbourne had firmly told him was his farewell tour. For one thing, both of them had been working constantly since their teens; for another, Ozzy had been diagnosed with a form of Parkinson's disease , after years of insisting an intermittent numbness in one of his legs was the result of a drinking binge (or rather its aftermath, during which he says he didn't move for two days). The tour was going well, but then he caught pneumonia, twice. 'And then I had an infection. I'm still on antibiotics to be honest with you, I had a thing put in the vein in my arm to feed in IV shots of them.' Six years later, 'I've still got it on – it comes out this week, with a bit of luck. Antibiotics knock the hell out of you.' The European dates of the tour were postponed to give him time to recover. Then, in February 2019, 'I went to the bathroom in the night, I didn't put the light on. I thought I knew where the bed was. I was stupid, I dived and there weren't a bed there. I landed straight on my face. I felt my neck go crunch. I went: 'Sharon! Call an ambulance!' She said, 'Where the hell are you? Get into bed!' I said: 'Sharon, don't ask questions.' I thought I was going to be paralysed.' The fall had 'pushed out of whack' existing damage to his neck vertebrae from a 2003 quad bike crash . In intensive care, he was told that if he didn't have an operation, he would be left paraplegic, but the operation itself was, Ozzy says, 'the worst f**king surgery you can imagine. I should have got a second opinion, but you think surgeons know what the f**k they're doing.' READ MORE Two metal plates were put in either side of his spine, but the screws became loose, creating bone fragments and lesions. 'They haven't figured out the damage, it's so intricate,' Sharon says. Another surgeon was found, who slowly removed all the metal. 'Five operations later, it just f**ked his body. It was torturous for him: Parkinson's and damage to his spine. It's just been horrendous.' Ozzy Osbourne onstage during Black Sabbath's 'The End Tour' in August 2016. Photograph: Kevin Mazur/WireImage/Getty Images Incredibly, Ozzy continued to work. He released two acclaimed albums, 2020's Ordinary Man and 2022's Patient Number 9; guested alongside Travis Scott on Post Malone's multi-platinum single Take What You Want; and managed to make an appearance at the 2022 Commonwealth Games closing ceremony in Birmingham, performing Paranoid alongside his Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi , with a bracket supporting his back. More incredible still, he says he did it all without the aid of pain medication. 'Not anything,' Ozzy says. 'And I could have gone ballistic on the medical cabinet. I've been on that road before – I used to take painkillers recreationally, they're very addictive. I'd whack my arm with a f**king lump of wood to get a bottle of them. I mean, there's so many bent doctors over here [in LA], and I was their best friend.' Nevertheless, he says, he was horribly depressed after his surgery: at his lowest, he was in so much discomfort that he prayed to die in his sleep. 'You wake up the next morning and find that something else has gone wrong. You begin to think this is never going to end. Sharon could see that I was in Doom Town, and she says to me, 'I've got an idea.' It was something to give me a reason to get up in the morning.' He laughs. 'I thought: oh, f**king hell, she's got an idea. Here we go.' Sharon's idea was to stage a farewell show, for charity, in Ozzy's hometown of Birmingham, featuring not just a reformation of the original line-up of Black Sabbath, but a litany of artists they influenced. It says something about the respect the band are held in, about the sheer length of the shadow Sabbath cast over hard rock that, as Ozzy characteristically puts it, 'everyone and their f**king mate started jumping on board'. Ozzy Osbourne performing during the closing ceremony for the 2022 Commonwealth Games at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, England. Photograph: Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images The line-up for the gig is genuinely extraordinary: Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Slayer, Pantera, Alice in Chains, Anthrax, Mastodon, Tool; members of Judas Priest, Limp Bizkit, Smashing Pumpkins, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Megadeth, Van Halen, Ghost and Faith No More. Moreover, the bill appears to be growing all the time: when I speak to Sharon, she informs me that Soundgarden and Aerosmith's Steven Tyler are the latest additions. The show's musical director, Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello, says, 'There's some pretty great surprises that are not posted anywhere.' It's hard to argue with Morello's assessment that the gig, called Back to the Beginning, might represent 'the greatest day in the history of heavy metal'. Equally, it seems fraught with potential issues. [ Ozzy Osbourne to reunite with original Black Sabbath for final performance in Birmingham Opens in new window ] [ Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi: 'I've been on the road 50 years - I have to live what life I've got' Opens in new window ] First of all, it involved reconvening the four original members of Black Sabbath. The quartet formed in 1968. It's almost impossible to overstate the impact of the music they made between then and Ozzy Osbourne's initial departure from the band in 1979: there's a chance metal, grunge and the rest might have come into existence without their cocktail of sludgy downtuned riffs, overpowering volume and bleak lyrics delivered in Osbourne's despairing wail – the sound, as Morello puts it, of 'the no-hope working class driving a stake through the heart of the flower power generation' – but it's very difficult to picture what it might have sounded like. 'The Beatles were my thing, they were everything to me,' Ozzy says when the subject of Sabbath's influence comes up. 'When I met Paul McCartney it was like seeing God. I was telling a guy about it one day. His kid was with him, and he said to me, 'You know what you said to that guy about meeting Paul McCartney? That's what I felt like when I met you.' I was like, 'You what?' You never think about it.' He describes the frequently turbulent relationship between the band's four original members as 'like a marriage: you have a row with the wife, but then you make up again'. Certainly, said marriage appears to have been going through a particularly rocky patch since the four last played together, 20 years ago. Ozzy says part of the appeal of a final reunion was the involvement of drummer Bill Ward, who had declined to take part in Black Sabbath's last album, 2013's 13, or the ensuing farewell tour. Depending on whose story you believe, Ward was either unfit to perform live, or unable to secure a proper contract: either way, a public slanging match ensued. Meanwhile, bassist Geezer Butler – who had been openly critical of what he calls 'the politics behind the making' of 13 – says he 'hadn't spoken to Ozzy since the last Sabbath show in 2017, mainly because his wife and my wife had fallen out over God knows what'. Sabbath's enmities were apparently remedied with a series of phone calls and texts. Ward and Ozzy were already back in touch – the pair reconnected when Ozzy fell ill – while Ozzy thinks 'religious' Aston Villa fan Butler might have been swayed by the fact the gig is taking place at Villa Park – 'My first thought was: that'll make Geezer f**king happier.' Iommi says he was the member who took the most convincing. 'I'm the one that said, 'I don't know if we should do it', because we did a farewell tour and I didn't want to get into that thing like all the other bands are doing, saying it's the last tour and then reappearing again. But I've been convinced, because we're doing it for a reason.' The gig will raise money for Parkinson's and children's charities: 'No one's getting paid or anything.' But even with the other members of Sabbath on board, questions loomed – and still loom – over the state of Ozzy's health. Certainly, none of the members of Black Sabbath seem to know what form their performance is going to take ('I think Ozzy might be on some kind of throne,' offers Iommi, 'but I'm in the dark as much as anybody else'), and it's hard to miss a certain trepidation on their part. 'I'm already having palpitations,' says Butler. 'In fact, I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed everything went wrong on stage and we all turned to dust. It's important that we leave a great impression, since it's the final time that people will experience us live. So it has to be great on the night.' When I speak to Morello, he's bullish: 'Sharon and Ozzy were like, 'You're gonna have Black Sabbath'. And that felt good.' Others are less certain. The day I interview Ozzy, one artist on the bill, Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan, seems to cast doubt on the whole enterprise: 'I'm cautious about saying, 'Yeah, all in, he's gonna do it.' Because man, I don't know what kind of modern miracles we'll come up with to get him on stage to do the songs ... I'm kinda preparing for the worst, but hoping for the best.' Ozzy is at pains to point out that he isn't going to be performing a full set. 'We're only playing a couple of songs each. I don't want people thinking, 'We're getting ripped off', because it's just going to be ... what's the word? ... a sample, you're going to get a few songs each by Ozzy and Sabbath.' He says he's in training. 'I do weights, bike riding, I've got a guy living at my house who's working with me. It's tough – I've been laid up for such a long time. I've been lying on my back doing nothing and the first thing to go is your strength. It's like starting all over again. I've got a vocal coach coming round four days a week to keep my voice going. I have problems walking. I also get blood pressure issues, from blood clots on my legs. I'm used to doing two hours on stage, jumping and running around. I don't think I'll be doing much jumping or running around this time. I may be sitting down, but the point is I'll be there, and I'll do the best I can. So all I can do is turn up.' Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne in 2018. Photograph: PA If it works, it will be a remarkable victory against the odds, and as every member of Black Sabbath points out, that would be entirely in keeping with their career. No one thought they were going to make it, not even Ward, who legendarily had the eureka moment that shaped the band: why not try to come up with a musical equivalent to the horror films that were packing them in at his local cinema? When Iommi followed through, debuting the song that gave the band their name at a rehearsal, Ward says his first reaction was that, 'It scared the hell out of me, I absolutely loved it. Then I thought: oh well, we've completely f**ked our career now.' Even when their career took off, Ozzy points out, 'I don't think we ever had a good review. Maybe that was a catalyst in a way: every critic didn't like us, so more of the people liked us. We were a people's band: four guys from Aston, one of the poorest parts of Birmingham.' Growing up, 'I used to have an old tyre and a stick, rolling it around the streets of Birmingham. We never had a car, never went on holiday, never saw the ocean until I was in my late teens. Couldn't hold a job down – I'd get four weeks into a factory job and go, 'F**k it.' But we just had a crack and it worked out.' Whatever happens on July 5th, Sharon says it's definitely the end. The rest of Black Sabbath seem to be immersed in projects – Ward says he has seven unreleased solo albums to put out, Butler is working on a novel, Iommi has recently helmed, of all things, a Black Sabbath-themed ballet and his own perfume – but, she insists that, for her and Ozzy, 'it's time to say 'enough'. When you've given it your all, you can sit back and say: I did it.' Hang on: are the Osbournes really going to repair to their home in Buckinghamshire and live a life of genteel retirement? 'Yeah. Get some ponies and chickens, and a million dogs. I want to open a dog rescue centre and a horse rescue centre. Scream at the neighbours a couple of times. There you go.' Ozzy concedes that he's done, too. 'I'd love to say 'never say never', but after the last six years or so ... it is time. I lived on the road for 50-odd years, and I've kind of got used to not picking up my bags and getting on the bus again. I don't smoke dope or do any of the rock star lifestyle any more. I'm kind of like a homebody. I never go out. I never hang out in bars – I don't drink. So what the f**k is out there for me? I hate going shopping with my wife. I feel like stabbing myself in the neck after half an hour. But it's time for me to spend some time with my grandkids, I don't want to die in a hotel room somewhere. I want to spend the rest of my life with my family.' – Guardian Back to the Beginning is at Villa Park, Birmingham, on Saturday, July 5th
