Metal legend Ozzy Osbourne has told British newspaper The Guardian that he intends to move back to the UK next year due to the political climate in the USA, where he has lived with his wife Sharon for many years. He told the publication, “Everything’s fucking ridiculous there. I’m fed up with people getting killed every day. God knows how many people have been shot in school shootings. And there was that mass shooting in Vegas at that concert… It’s fucking crazy”. He goes on to shed more light on the reason behind the move, explaining, “I don’t want to die in America. I don’t want to be buried in fucking Forest Lawn,” he says of the LA cemetery favoured by expired celebrities. “I’m English. I want to be back. But saying that, if my wife said we’ve got to go and live in Timbuktu, I’ll go.”
On the rumours that Ozzy’s ill health was the reason behind the homecoming, Sharon added, “I knew people would think that. It’s not. It’s just time. America has changed so drastically. It isn’t the United States of America at all. Nothing’s united about it. It’s a very weird place to live right now.”
The pair are selling their Hancock Park mansion in Los Angeles for $18 million and moving back to the UK in February when they will resume living in their 120-year-old Buckinghamshire mansion, the Grade II-listed Welders House, and 350-acre estate. They’ve already hired builders to dig a pool, put in air conditioning, and build Ozzy a studio so he can continue making music.
What a way to bring it all to an end!
Thank you, Birmingham. Thank you, thank you, thank you!@ozzyosbourne @tonyiommi @wakemanofficial#B2022 #ClosingCeremony #CommonwealthGames pic.twitter.com/2UoSFrqoeH
— Birmingham 2022 (@birminghamcg22) August 8, 2022
Ozzy recently surprised the world and Sabbath fans by appearing in his hometown with his Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi to close the Birmingham Commonwealth Games earlier this summer. Ozzy appeared on stage for the final number, the Sabbath classic, “Paranoid”. Ozzy told the paper, “I said to Sharon: ‘I can’t fucking perform’. She said: ‘Are you sure?’ And I thought about it, and I thought: ‘Fuck it, I’m gonna go for it.’ It’s one song – and I’ve sung it every fucking night for the last 55 years, so it’s not like I’m going to forget the fucking words!”
Sharon gives a little more back story to how the performance came about, “They called six days before the gig and said: ‘Do you think Ozzy could do it now?’ And I said to him: ‘Can you do it?’ He said yeah, and that was it. Six days, turned it around, booked the flight, got everybody together.” Sharon and his daughter were amazed by the performance because of the heath battles he has fought over the last few years. She told the paper, “After the gig, Ozzy walked to the car – with no cane. Just walked, normally. Kelly and I were behind him and we’re going, ‘Jesus Christ…”.
In June, Ozzy had two metal plates removed from his spine that had been screwed into his spine in 2019. Sharon explained, “The screws had come loose, and were chipping away at the bone. And the debris had lodged under his spine”. The pain was so excruciating, Ozzy added, “It got so bad that at one point I thought: ‘Oh God, please don’t let me wake up tomorrow morning.’ Because it was fucking agony.”
Ozzy Osbourne has moved his UK & Ireland No More Tours 2 tour yet again to May and June 2023.
Still featuring special guests Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne’s previously rescheduled February and March 2022 arena shows will now take place 15 months later.
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— The Metal Voice (@themetalvoice) November 24, 2021
Ozzy is set to release his thirteenth studio album, Patient Number 9 on September 9th and finish his No More Tour 2 dates next year. You can preorder the album here, and get tickets here.
Ozzy Osbourne No More Tour 2 dates:
31/05/2023 – Nottingham Motorpoint Arena – Nottingham
02/06 – Utilita Arena Newcastle – Newcastle Upon Tyne
04/06 – OVO Hydro – Glasgow
07/06 – AO Arena – Manchester
10/06 – 3Arena – Dublin
12/06 – The O2 – London
14/06 – Resorts World Arena – Birmingham
