Last Rites

Schockierend, bitterkomisch und überraschend: der zweite Teil der schonungslosen Memoiren des 'Prince of Darkness' Ozzy Osbourne'Die Leute fragen mich: Wenn du alles noch einmal machen könntest, mit dem Wissen von heute, würdest du etwas ändern? Ich sage nur: Verdammt nein. Wäre ich clean und nüchtern gewesen, wäre ich nicht Ozzy. Hätte ich normale, vernünftige Dinge getan, wäre ich nicht Ozzy. Hör mal, wenn es morgen vorbei ist, kann ich mich nicht beschweren. Ich bin um die ganze Welt gereist. Habe viel gesehen. Ich habe Gutes getan ... und Schlechtes. Aber im Moment bin ich noch nicht bereit, irgendwohin zu gehen.' <BR>Mit 70 Jahren war Ozzy Osbourne auf einer triumphalen Abschiedstournee, spielte vor ausverkauften Stadien und erhielt begeisterte Kritiken auf der ganzen Welt. Dann das Desaster. Innerhalb weniger Wochen musste er nach einem Krankenhausaufenthalt wegen einer Fingerinfektion seine Tournee - und sein gesamtes öffentliches Leben - aufgeben, da er vom Hals abwärts fast vollständig gelähmt war. <BR>Last Rites ist die schockierende, tragikomische und bisher unveröffentlichte Geschichte von Osbournes Höllenfahrt. Dabei reflektiert er über sein außergewöhnliches Leben und seine Karriere - einschließlich seiner Ehe mit Sharon, seines Bedauerns über die Reunion von Black Sabbath, seiner Freundschaften mit Slash und Zakk Wylde und der erschütternden letzten Momente, die er mit Lemmy Kilmister von Motörhead verbrachte. <BR>Last Rites schließt nahtlos an Ozzy - Die Autobiografie an und zeigt einmal mehr, warum Ozzy seinen Status als 'Godfather of Metal' und 'Prince of Darkness' selbst übertroffen hat. Ein so verrücktes Leben, das nur in zwei Bücher passt!

'Mightily entertaining' - Heat <BR><BR>People ask me how come I'm still alive, and I don't know what to say. When I was growing up, if you'd have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street and asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the age of sixty, with five kids and four grandkids and houses in Buckinghamshire and California, I wouldn't have put money on me, no f**king way. But here I am: ready to tell my story, in my own words, for the first time. <BR><BR>A lot of it ain't gonna be pretty. I've done some bad things in my time. But I ain't the devil. I'm just John Osbourne: a working class kid from Aston, who quit his job in the factory and went looking for a good time.

People say to me, if you could do it all again, knowing what you know now, would you change anything? I'm like, f*** no. If I'd been clean and sober, I wouldn't be Ozzy. If I'd done normal, sensible things, I wouldn't be Ozzy.<BR><BR>Look, if it ends tomorrow, I can't complain. I've been all around the world. Seen a lot of things. I've done good... and I've done bad. But right now, I'm not ready to go anywhere.<BR><BR>At the age of sixty-nine, Ozzy Osbourne was on a triumphant farewell tour, playing to sold-out arenas and rave reviews all around the world. <BR><BR>Then disaster. <BR><BR>In a matter of just a few weeks, he went from being hospitalised with a finger infection to having to abandon his tour - and all public life - as he faced near-total paralysis from the neck down.<BR><BR>Last Rites is the shocking, bitterly hilarious, never-before-told story of Osbourne's descent into hell. Along the way, he reflects on his extraordinary life and career - including his turbulent marriage to wife Sharon, his regrets over Black Sabbath's reunion, his friendships with Slash and Zakk Wylde, and the harrowing final moments he spent with Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister.<BR><BR>Unflinching but surprisingly life-affirming, Last Rites demonstrates once again why Ozzy has transcended his status as 'The Godfather of Metal' and 'The Prince of Darkness' to become a modern-day folk hero and national treasure.

'People say to me, if you could do it all again, knowing what youknow now, would you change anything? I'm like, f*ck no. If I'd been clean and sober, I wouldn't be Ozzy. If I'd done normal, sensible things, I wouldn't be Ozzy.'<BR><BR>Husband. Father. Grandfather. F*cking Icon.<BR>1948 - 2025<BR><BR>At the age of sixty-nine, Ozzy Osbourne was on a triumphant farewell tour, playing to sold-out arenas and rave reviews all around the world.<BR><BR>Then: disaster.<BR><BR>In a matter of just a few weeks, he went from being hospitalised with a finger infection to having to abandon his tour - and all public life - as he faced near-total paralysis from the neck down.<BR><BR>Last Rites is the shocking, bitterly hilarious, never-before-told story of Ozzy's descent into hell. Along the way are reflections on an extraordinary life and career, including his marriage to wife Sharon, and what it took for him to return to the stage for the triumphant Back to the Beginning concert, streamed around the world, where Ozzy reunited with his Black Sabbath bandmates for the final time.<BR><BR>Unflinching, brutally honest, but surprisingly life-affirming, Last Rites demonstrates once again why Ozzy transcended his status as 'The Godfather of Metal' and 'The Prince of Darkness' to become a modern-day folk hero and national treasure.

People say to me, if you could do it all again, knowing what you know now, would you change anything? I'm like, f*** no. If I'd been clean and sober, I wouldn't be Ozzy. If I'd done normal, sensible things, I wouldn't be Ozzy.<BR><BR>Look, if it ends tomorrow, I can't complain. I've been all around the world. Seen a lot of things. I've done good... and I've done bad. But right now, I'm not ready to go anywhere.<BR><BR>At the age of sixty-nine, Ozzy Osbourne was on a triumphant farewell tour, playing to sold-out arenas and rave reviews all around the world. <BR><BR>Then disaster. <BR><BR>In a matter of just a few weeks, he went from being hospitalised with a finger infection to having to abandon his tour - and all public life - as he faced near-total paralysis from the neck down.<BR><BR>Last Rites is the shocking, bitterly hilarious, never-before-told story of Osbourne's descent into hell. Along the way, he reflects on his extraordinary life and career - including his turbulent marriage to wife Sharon, his regrets over Black Sabbath's reunion, his friendships with Slash and Zakk Wylde, and the harrowing final moments he spent with Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister.<BR><BR>Unflinching but surprisingly life-affirming, Last Rites demonstrates once again why Ozzy has transcended his status as 'The Godfather of Metal' and 'The Prince of Darkness' to become a modern-day folk hero and national treasure.