Ozzy: “I’m making resistance training for the last show”

The event will be held on 5 July at the Villa Park in Birmingham “Back to the Beginning“, who will see Ozzy Osbourne limestone for the last time, both as a soloist and together with his legendary Heavy Metal band, the Black Sabbath. The” Prince of Darkness “, recently guest of the show on Siriusxm of his friend and guitarist of Billy Idol, Billy Morrison, said that in view of his final show is physically preparing.

Osbourne said he was currently engaged in a “intense training“In view of the farewell event and stressed that go on stage After numerous surgery suffered in recent years “is really like starting from scratch”. When Morrison asked him about his Physical preparation routinethe singer explained: “It is Resistance training. The first thing you lose when you are stuck in bed is the resistance, therefore, even if it may seem incredible, I am doing two sessions of three minutes of walking and weight lifting. I go back and forth, so to speak. “He added:”I am awakening in my body. Three minutes for you are nothing, but I was lying in bed to recover from an infinite number of surgical operations “.

“Back to the Beginning” will mark The first time since 2005 that the original formation of the Black Sabbathcomposed of Ozzy, Tony Iommi, Bill Ward and Geezer Butler, will go up together on stage again.

The band had already taken a farewell tour between 2016 and 2017but without Ward, and the last complete solo performance of Osbourne dates back to the Ozzfest, at the Forum in English (California), on 31 December 2018. At the beginning of 2019, the frontman was hospitalized for complications related to the flu and postponed the remaining dates of the “No More Tors II” tour, only to then delete them later After a fall in his home in Los Angeles. In 2020 it was also revealed that Parkinson’s disease had been diagnosed in Osbourne. Three years later Ozzy announced the retreat from the tours, but his wife and manager Sharon has already declared the intention of organizing a last farewell concert in Birmingham in January 2024.

The ladder of “Back to the Beginning“It will be completed by a real Heavy Metal Star Parade. The event will also see – among others – Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Lamb of God, Tool, Mastodon, Alice in Chains, Guns N ‘Roses, Halestorm and Gojira, as well as a supergroup made up of Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins), Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit), Pope V Perpetua (Ghost) and others. Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine) will be the musical director of the event, while the famous actor Jason Momoa will be the presenter.