Now I don’t drink or smoke or f***ing do any of that s***. People wouldn’t know if I was gonna go through the door, the roof or the window. I was doing f***ing huge amounts of drugs and booze. What’s the secret of their long-lasting marriage? “Love, I suppose,” says Osbourne. “Maybe it’s because I’m back off holiday and I’m not spending any more money.” He bought his wife a ruby necklace for the occasion she got him a ruby-encrusted skull ring. He’s been in Hawaii with Sharon, celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. Today, though, he’s enjoying that just-home-from-holiday bounce. That same year he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, and more recently he’s survived a tussle with Covid. In June, Osbourne underwent “life-altering” surgery to deal with neck injuries he first sustained in a 2003 quad-biking accident, which were exacerbated by a fall in 2019. The 73-year-old is in fine form, sharp and witty despite various physical ailments. I’m not American and I want to come home, you know?” “I’ve missed going to the cake shop in Beaconsfield,” says Osbourne, infectiously enthusiastic about the move. There’ll be no high-powered psychedelics for tea this time. These days Osbourne walks with the aid of a black cane, and the only pure white lines are the roots near his centre-parting. After two decades here they’ve decided to go back to their Grade II-listed Buckinghamshire estate, Welders House. On the eve of his 13th solo record, Patient Number 9, Osbourne and his wife Sharon have put their stately mansion in LA’s leafy Hancock Park up for sale for $18m (£15.5m). “You’ll have to ask the horse.”įifty years on, Osbourne is once again plotting a return to England with an explosive new album tucked under his arm. He’s a little hazy on the rest of the details. Osbourne wandered into a field and spent an hour talking to a horse before it turned round and told him to “f*** off”. “We used to take it all the f***ing time,” he recalls, that Aston accent still clear as a ringing bell. When it was done, their hell-raising frontman flew back to England and celebrated by swallowing 10 tabs of LSD. The year was 1972, and heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath were in sun-kissed California making their stone-cold classic Vol 4.
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When he first came to this city to record, he was a wide-eyed, golden-voiced Brummie lad of 23, with a passion for fringed stagewear and as many cereal boxes full of cocaine as he could lay his nostrils on. It's just that I've got to get off my butt and go for it.Ozzy Osbourne is at home in Los Angeles, contemplating the passage of time. "Even if I manage one show, then fall over. So whatever I make of it is entirely up to me now. I had my last surgery in June, I can't have any more. I've got a goal: the goal is to get back onstage. I don't think that I'll be here in another 25 years.
"I am going to put 110 per cent into getting myself out there," he latter emphasized. If I put every effort into it and I still can't, at least I can't say that I haven't tried." I have a goal: that next summer I will be onstage. But I don't mind, as long as I can fuckin' walk around without falling on my head. I mean, I'll probably always have a limp. "My balance is all fucked up, but I've got to keep going. "I've just got to get back into a rhythm again," Ozzy told Kerrang!. The Prince of Darkness has undergone numerous surgeries over the last few years, but he's currently in recovery and has a plan to get back out there to play for his adoring fans.
While Ozzy seems to have no interest in reuniting with his pioneering metal bandmates, he does have a clear goal in mind for the near future - getting back onstage for full shows. "We put that band to bed," he continued. "And if he wants to Sabbath album, I'm not doing it!" Maybe the tracks he did on my album was like what Sabbath should have been had we stayed together, but I want to take it away from Sabbath. There's no getting away from the fact that, when he plays with me, it'll be some kind of a reflection of that.
"If Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi do an album together, it's going to sound like a Sabbath album," Ozzy said, upon being asked if he has more music in store with Iommi. "Tony was the sound of Sabbath.
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