Ozzy Osbourne desires to “say goodbye properly” to his followers, his longtime spouse and manager, Sharon Osbourne, mentioned this week. So though the 75-year-old “Prince of Darkness” prompt final 12 months that his touring days had ended, Sharon mentioned they’re planning on the well-known heavy metallic singer doing two last concert events in his authentic hometown of Birmingham, U.Ok.
Final summer time, Ozzy, the previous Black Sabbath frontman who has currently struggled with well being points, mentioned he was simply not able to carry out but.
Sharon made the brand new remarks about Ozzy’s proposed dwell comeback whereas onstage in London on Sunday (Jan. 21) as a part of her “Minimize The Crap” talking tour, which hits Birmingham on Wednesday (Jan. 24) and London once more on Jan. 28, per the Every day Mirror.
“He will not tour once more,” Sharon mentioned of Ozzy, “however we’re planning on doing two extra reveals to say goodbye as he looks like, ‘I’ve by no means mentioned goodbye to my followers, and I wish to say goodbye correctly.'” She added, “We’ll do it in Aston Villa, the place Ozzy is from.”
Sharon additionally mentioned, “His voice continues to be completely excellent. And on a regular basis he has been off, he nonetheless does his singing classes, so his voice is ideal.”
She added, “And he can joke, yeah. He has all these melodies in his head. Even in case you do not like his music, you’ll be able to’t not like Ozzy — he simply attracts you in.”
In 2022, Ozzy launched the Grammy-winning album Affected person Quantity 9. That very same 12 months, hewas mentioned to be “on the street to restoration” following neck and backbone surgical procedure after a 2019 harm and a 2003 accident. He returned to the stage on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games and later performed halftime at an NFL sport.
However at first of 2023, he mentioned his touring days “have ended” when he canceled his scheduled 2023 tour and appeared to announce his retirement from touring. A postponed European leg of his “No Extra Excursions II” tour was set to kick off that Could. He subsequently backed out of his deliberate look at California’s Energy Journey fest that October.