Rocker Ozzy Osbourne has opened up about the recent Black Sabbath reunion announcement, sharing that although he’s unable to walk at the moment, he’s thrilled to be alive and is looking forward to taking the stage with his former bandmates one last time.
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According to reports, Osbourne said on his Ozzy’s Boneyard radio show on Wednesday, February 5 following the announcement that Black Sabbath would return for one last bash in Birmingham, “I have made it to 2025. I can’t walk, but you know what I was thinking over the holidays? For all my complaining, I’m still alive. I may be moaning that I can’t walk but I look down the road and there’s people that didn’t do half as much as me and didn’t make it.”
Joining Sabbath on stage during their final Back To the Beginning show at Birmingham's Villa Park will be fellow masters of metal Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Alice in Chains, Lamb Of God, Gojira, HALESTORM, Mastodon, and Anthrax -- as well as a ton of special guests. Tickets will be available starting February 14 via Live Nation.
Ozzy's wife, Sharon, says her husband is “very emotional” about the planned farewell concert, recently telling The Sun, “He’s very happy to be coming back… Parkinson’s is a progressive disease,” she added. “It’s not something you can stabilize. It affects different parts of the body and it’s affected his legs. But his voice is as good as it’s ever been.”
“It’s my time to go Back to the Beginning… time for me to give back to the place where I was born,” Ozzy, 76, said in a statement announcing the concert scheduled for July 5 at Birmingham's Villa Park, which also revealed Osbourne will perform his own short solo set before taking the stage with Sabbath. “How blessed am I to do it with the help of people whom I love. Birmingham is the true home of metal. Birmingham Forever.”
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