Ozzy Osbourne admits he 'can’t walk' as he prepares for final Black Sabbath performance

The Paranoid hitmakers—Osbourne, 76, Tony Iommi, 76, Geezer Butler, 75, and Bill Ward, 76—will instrumentality the signifier astatine Villa Park successful Birmingham connected 5 July for Osbourne’s past hurrah with the band.

The quality was unveiled by his wife, Sharon Osbourne, and guitarist Tony Iommi astatine Aston Villa’s stadium. However, Sharon warned that portion the rocker’s vocals stay strong, his Parkinson’s diagnosis has taken a toll connected his mobility, peculiarly his legs.

She told The Sun: “He’s precise blessed to beryllium coming backmost and precise affectional astir this.

“Parkinson’s is simply a progressive disease. It’s not thing you tin stabilise. It affects antithetic parts of the assemblage and it’s affected his legs.

“But his dependable is arsenic bully arsenic it’s ever been.”

Osbourne, who is acceptable to determination backmost to the UK adjacent month, appeared connected Sirius XM and revealed that helium tin nary longer walk.

He admitted: “I person made it to 2025. I can’t walk, but you cognize what I was reasoning implicit the holidays? For each my complaining, I’m inactive alive.

“I whitethorn beryllium moaning that I can’t locomotion but I look down the roadworthy and there’s radical that didn’t bash fractional arsenic overmuch arsenic maine and didn’t marque it.”

The set played its “last” gig successful 2017 successful Birmingham with Osborne, guitarist Iommi and bassist Butler but without Ward connected drums.

In 2020, Osbourne revealed helium had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s illness and helium paused touring “for now” successful 2023 aft extended spinal surgery.

He had a autumn astatine location successful 2019 which aggravated injuries from a near-fatal quad motorcycle clang successful 2003, stopping his No More Tours 2 shows from going up successful Europe and the UK.

The circuit had antecedently been rescheduled respective times due to the fact that of illness, the Covid pandemic and logistical issues.

The amusement successful July volition besides spot performances by Pantera, Gojira, Halestorm, Lamb Of God, Anthrax and Mastodon.

Other musicians connected the line-up see Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan and Slash, Limp Bizkit vocalist Fred Durst, Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale and Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello.

Anthrax’s Frank Bello and Scott Ian, Disturbed’s David Draiman, Korn’s Jonathan Davis, Faith No More’s Mike Bordin, Ghost’s Papa V Perpetua, guitarist Jake E Lee, Judas Priest’s KK Downing, bassist Rudy Sarzo, guitarist Sammy Hagar, Wolfgang Van Halen, Zakk Wylde and Sleep Token person besides been confirmed for the day.