Ozzy Osbourne is opening up about his health struggles, saying he would “die a happy man” if he could perform one last show

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Rock icon Ozzy Osbourne spoke about his health struggles in… Recent interview with Rolling StoneHe said he would “die a happy man” if he could give another show to express his gratitude to his fans from the stage.

“If I can’t keep doing shows on a regular basis, I just want to be healthy enough to do one show where I can say, ‘Hey guys, thank you so much for my life.’ That’s what I’m working toward, and if I drop dead in In the end, I will die a happy man.”

74 years old Announced in February That his touring career ended because he was no longer “physically able (to)” after suffering several health setbacks. In July, he withdrew from an appearance at a music festival scheduled for October.

Osbourne damaged his spine in a major accident four years ago, has undergone several surgeries since then, and revealed his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in January 2020.

The fall and subsequent surgeries “really upset me,” Osborne said. “The second surgery went horribly wrong and left me almost paralyzed. I thought I’d be able to run after the second and third, but with the last one they put a strong rod into my spine. They found a tumor in one of the vertebrae, so they had to extract all that too. It’s pretty tough, man.” man.”

Although Osbourne performed sporadically during that period, including at the closing ceremony of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in his hometown of Birmingham, England, he was largely absent from the stage.

During his career — which began as a member of the pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath — Osbourne won Grammy Awards for both his solo work and as part of the band he left in 1979.

He became famous for his colorful shows as well as his music, especially throughout the 1980s, including when he threw raw meat at concertgoers, and bitten off a dead bat that a fan had thrown onto the stage (Osbourne thought it was rubber. It was not).

“I’m just going to take it one day at a time, and if I can perform again, I will,” he said. “But it was like saying goodbye to the best relationship of my life. At the beginning of my illness, when I stopped touring, I was very angry with myself, the doctors and the world. But as time went on, I said to myself: ‘Okay, maybe I should accept this truth.’

However, the legendary singer said playing the role of “tepid Ozzy looking for sympathy” was out of the question.

“I watched Phil Collins perform recently, and he has almost the same problems as me,” he added. “He’s getting up there in a wheelchair! But I couldn’t do it.”