Music Osbourne just wanted to go back to the stage: ‘work to improve’

When Ozzy Osbourne took the Metallic on tour in 1986, he noticed his young opening band playing Black Sabbath In the last volume in the dressing room and making covers of songs of their old band in the sound check. The first assumption of Osbournehe said later, was that the Metallic I was mocking him. He was surprised to find that they were actually showing his worship and trying to convince him to take the stage with them.

As discussed in the new episode of the podcast Rolling Stone Music Now, Osbourne – who died on July 22 at 76 – could be insecure for a legend of beloved and extremely influential metal. These feelings of inadequacy, fueled by a poor childhood, were a factor behind both their substance abuse and its many decades of success. “He didn’t think he was a winner,” says Kory Grow of the Rolling Stonewho joins the presenter Brian Hiatt For the conversation. “And I think this mindset is what really made him strive for more and strive to be better.”

The episode traces the whole life and career of Osbourneincluding the moment when he and the Sabbath They created the metal as we know it. Much of his threatening image, we found out, was imposed from outside. Church bells in music “Black Sabbath” They were added by a producer, and the inverted cross on the album’s cover was a complete surprise for the band members, who were created as Christians and so sensitive to the occult that The Exorcist He scared them.

The episode also addresses the separation of Osbourne of Sabbath In the late 70’s, the almost miraculous birth of his solo career after his partnership with the late guitar genius Randy Rhoads And all that followed. Growwho talked to Osbourne Often, it offers a privileged perspective of its last years.

When Osbourne He returned to the stage in 2022, he was “in a good mood,” he says Grow. “He thought he was going to play more than two songs at the shows … After that, he was still talking about working to improve, but he also talked about how difficult it was, how he had difficulty walking and the various difficulties he was facing. And in successive interviews I did with him, his voice sounded weaker and a little more flawed. It was sad to hear it, especially because he seemed so mentally alert and in full form.

In the end, Osbourne Finally he took the stage once more, just two weeks before his death in his hometown, Birmingham, England, for the gigantic farewell charity show, Back to the beginning. Sitting on a throne, Osbourne found strength to sing solo successes and meet with the Black Sabbath for the last time, after a day when Hard Rock and Metal giants, Tool to the Metallic and to Guns n ‘Rosespaid tribute. “That says a lot,” he says Grow“that these bands would like to support charity and support the music and legacy that Ozzy created. “

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