For Josh Home, Ozzy Osbourne like David Bowie: “A poetic end”

Engaged on tour with his Queens of the Stone Age and in the promotion of the live album “Alive in the Catacombs”, recorded last year in the Catacombs of Paris, Josh Homme released a new interview for Radio X during which he reflected on the recent disappearance of Ozzy Osbourne, which took place on 22 July a few weeks after the last concert with the Black Sabbath. Homing the Black Sabbath frontman, Homme then compared his death to that of David Bowie, defining both “poetic”.

In the chat, the Qotsa leader commented on the fact that Osbourne died shortly after his final show and said:

“I think it was a poetic conclusion of a career from which I could not divert eyes and ears. I want to say, I could look Ozzy to do anything. Well, almost anything. But you know, even if I was squeezing an orange I would think: ‘We have to look to the end. There is about something that goes beyond the juice’. I don’t know if I explain to me. I really think it’s a classic”.

Homme added:

“I think his disappearance was poetic, and I feel pain for the family, because it is a huge loss. But I also think they see poetry in this. You know, I think that David Bowie’s death was also: two poetic ways of leaving”.

Although without explaining, it is possible that Josh Homme reported that Bowie died of cancer in January 2016, only two days after the release of his latest album, “Blackstar”. Since then, the album has been widely interpreted as a farewell disc.

The concert recorded in the Parisian underground oxyler, which saw the band confronting the death again after the latest album “In Times New Roman …” (here our review), will become a tour that will also pass from Italy. In our part, “Alive in the Catacombs” will relive live for a single date at the Lyric Theater Giorgio Gaber in Milan on October 18th.