Rock legend Ozzy Osbourne is about to take to the stage for one final efficiency.
The 76-year-old, whose actual title is John Michael Osbourne, will reunite along with his Black Sabbath bandmates at Aston Villa’s Villa Park for a gig that guarantees to be the “greatest heavy metal show ever”.
The all-day Again To The Starting present would be the steel band’s first efficiency collectively in 20 years, with unique stars Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Terence ‘Geezer’ Butler and Invoice Ward.
The comeback marks the primary main present Osbourne has executed since he cancelled deliberate gigs in Europe and the UK again in 2023, saying at the moment that he’s not “physically capable” of performing.
In 2020 the singer additionally revealed he has Parkinson’s illness.
The present, deliberate for five July, is the most recent in a profession that has spanned 5 many years and earned Osbourne the nickname The Prince Of Darkness.
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Black Sabbath within the Nineteen Seventies. Pic: Everett/Shutterstock
Who’s Ozzy Osbourne?
Born in Birmingham, Osbourne rose to fame as a founding member and lead singer of the band Black Sabbath.
The band shaped in 1968 and two years later launched their self-titled debut album which included songs like The Wizard and Evil Girl.
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Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath Performing Reside within the mid Eighties. Pic: Busacca/Mediapunch/Shutterstock
The group’s follow-up album, Paranoid, included a few of the band’s most well-known songs together with Struggle Pigs, Iron Man, Fairies Put on Boots and Paranoid.
The report was an enormous success, topping the charts within the UK and reaching no 12 within the US.
Black Sabbath went on to develop into one of the crucial profitable steel bands of all time, promoting greater than 75 million albums worldwide over time.
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Pic: Andrew Kent/Retna/Mediapunch/Shutterstock
The band performed its “last” gig in 2017 in Birmingham with Osborne, guitarist Iommi and bassist Butler however with out Ward on drums.
The singer went on to have success as a solo artist after leaving the band.
His solo debut album Blizzard Of Ozz reached the highest 10 within the UK, and in 2020 he achieved his highest-ever charting album with Odd Man, which featured collaborations with Elton John, Slash, Publish Malone and Tom Morello.
Household life and actuality TV
Away from music, Osbourne’s private life has been a key function of his profession.
In 1970, he was launched to Sharon Levy – who would later develop into his spouse and supervisor, Sharon Osbourne.
They went on to have three kids – Aimee, Kelly and Jack Osbourne.
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Ozzy Osbourne, spouse Sharon and youngsters on the Kerrang Awards 1997 in London. Pic: PA
The household hit new heights of fame after they starred within the actuality TV collection The Osbournes.
The present adopted the household throughout their each day lives in Beverley Hills in Los Angeles, together with Sharon’s public battle with colon most cancers.
After showing on the present, Jack and Kelly went on to have profitable careers on their very own within the public eye.
Jack has since offered quite a few programmes on journey and health whereas Kelly has appeared on reveals together with Australia’s Bought Expertise, Undertaking Catwalk and The View.
The Osbournes lasted from 2002 to 2005, successful an Emmy Award for excellent actuality programme.
Substance abuse and well being troubles
Osbourne has often spoken publicly about his issues with medication and alcohol and his time in rehab.
The singer instructed Selection in 2021 that he had expertise of medicine from a “very early age” including that he felt “lucky” to have survived.
“There’s nothing particular about me. I ought to have been useless 1,000 instances. I am not being big-headed about that, or invincible. It does not take a lot to kill you, he mentioned.
The couple’s youngest kids Kelly and Jack additionally suffered with habit, each going to rehab.
