Ozzy Osbourne was planning to begin work on a brand new album shortly earlier than his shock dying in July.
Ozzy Osbourne was planning a brand new album on the time of his dying
The Black Sabbath frontman, 76, handed away over the summer season – simply weeks after he received the group again collectively for a large reunion gig in his hometown of Birmingham, UK – and it is now been revealed he hoped to observe up his closing live performance with a brand new file and he’d already requested his longtime guitarist Zakk Wylde to hitch him within the studio.
Wylde instructed NJ.com: “He was texting me: ‘Zakk, let’s do one other file. As a result of I actually cherished it while you had been going by your Allman Brothers, Skynyrd section after we did ‘No Extra Tears’, it’s heavy but it surely’s extra melodic, it’s not pummeling heavy.’
“So I mentioned: ‘Alright Oz, no matter you need’.”
The album by no means received off the bottom however Osbourne did end work on his autobiography Final Rites and a BBC documentary.
Wylde added: “We did the present, he ended up ending his e book, they did the documentary, after which he was like: ‘All proper, I’m out of right here’. He completed every part he needed to do after which he was like: ‘All proper, I’m achieved’.”
The rocker additionally spoke about his closing efficiency with the music legend on the Black Sabbath reunion gig, insisting he had no thought it could their final ever time sharing a stage collectively: “Simply the truth that he willed himself to try this factor. No matter issues that we’ve run into, any obstacles or no matter, it’s all the time only a velocity bump and we’ll get by it.
“So I wasn’t pondering: ‘Oh, that is the final time I’m going to see Oz.’ I simply figured we’ll do the gig, after which who is aware of? You all the time keep optimistic on all these items …
“I wasn’t pondering after we had been doing the present that this was the final time I’m going to be doing Mama, I’m Coming Residence with the boss or that is the final time I’m going to play Loopy Practice with him or something like that.
“I used to be simply going: ‘Let’s do that and let’s have a great time’, like all the time.”
