Ozzy Osbourne: "Tony Iommi is a lamppost with a guitar"

Ozzy Osbourne: “I can’t walk, but I’m still alive”

Ozzy Osbourne will go on stage both as a soloist and as a frontman of Black Sabbath at the concert “Back to the Beginning” which will be held at the Villa Park in Birmingham, England, next July 5th. Ozzy and the band, in their hometown, will of course be the hosts but in addition to them there will also be Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Gojira, Alice in Chains and other metal groups.

For those who wonder what to expect from Ozzy given a state of health that is not exactly excellent, the 76 -year -old Birmingham musician in his radio program on Siriusxm reassured: “I arrived at 2025.

I can’t walk, but do you know what I thought during the holidays? Despite all my lanes, I am still alive. I could complain of not being able to walk, but I look at the end of the street and I see people who have not done half of what I did and they didn’t make it. “

During a meeting with the press at Villa Park, the guitarist of the Black Sabbath Tony IommiOzzy’s wife Sharon Osbourne Speaking of her husband she explained: “It’s really fantastic. She has Parkinson’s, we all know, but it’s fantastic and does not affect her voice”. While Iommi commented confidently: “This will do this well, do this show. He will really do it. This is the point: he wants to go out and do something”.

In another interview, granted to the British newspaper The Sun, Sharon said: “Parkinson’s is a progressive disease. It is not something you can stabilize. It affects different parts of the body and has hit his legs. But his voice is more Beautiful what never. “

Ozzy will probably perform sitting or with the help of a support to which he can stand when he is standing, as done a couple of years ago in his short performances at the Commonwealth games in Birmingham and the kick -off of the NFL in Los Angeles . Sharon has also observed that the concert will be immortalized, “it is something that must be documented. It is history of music.” Tony Iommi He added his own, “It’s definitely a very special thing, isn’t it?”