Ozzy Osbourne crippled by disease, to perform one last time with iconic band
Ozzy Osbourne can no longer walk, he revealed, but the rock legend still plans to perform one last time with Black Sabbath.
Osbourne was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2020, and the disease has crippled his body.
“I have made it to 2025,” Osbourne, 76, said while appearing on SiriusXM earlier this week. “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.”
Sharon Osbourne, his wife, told The Sun her husband’s voice is still up to the task of performing.
“He’s very happy to be coming back and very emotional about this,” she said. “Parkinson’s is a progressive disease. 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.”
Black Sabbath will perform on July 5.
“It’s my time to go Back to the Beginning … time for me to give back to the place where I was born,” Osbourne said in a post on X. “How blessed am I to do it with the help of people whom I love. Birmingham is the true home of metal. Birmingham Forever.”