Sadly, Ozzy Osbourne is not well enough to tour again. I am not snarking or being cynical here. He’s clearly unwell, and if we consider the grim sight of Phil Collins last year, I do think that Ozzy is making the right choice. His ouevre is ideal for a holographic spectacle, and could play wherever metal is liked.
Well THAT was a surprise….
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I saw Sharon on that Jeremy Paxman thing about Parkinson’s and assumed we wouldn’t be seeing the Ozzter in public again. I reckoned without the bottomless cynicism of promoters.
The insurance on these 60s/70s artists must be phenomenal, are we looking at a Producers-style scam here?
So much for the Black Sabbath gigs I saw advertised at the O2 when I was there in 2016. I did think they were quite ambitious.
A great loss to a lot of people. Whilst not, ahem, the world’s greatest vocalist, he was a showman and a half.
Sheffield City Hall, 37 years ago 2 weeks on Friday, one of the most incendiary gigs I’ve ever been to, even getting an encore *after* Paranoid.
Ozzy hasn’t really been well enough to tour since the mid 90s. Oxygen tents and massages etc have made showpiece events possible, but it is always a shock that he is still upright
I saw him live in my Uni years in Bradford in 1986 on whatever tour he was doing then.
1hr set. 10 minute encore.
I felt cheated.
He was good though!
He’s always been known for somewhat shorter than average gigs, but rarely disappointed. Same tour as my gig above. I’m racking my brains to work out why I went to Sheffield, when he played the RCH in Nottingham on the same tour…