Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy Kilmister were friends for decades. Now Ozzy Osbourne has confirmed the two brothers spoke on the phone in the spirit of heavy metal just hours before the Motörhead singer’s death: “I was talking to Lemmy the morning he died. But I couldn’t understand what he was talking about. I wanted to speak to someone who was there, but they kept handing the phone to Lemmy.”
It’s hard to lose someone you love: “He was a good man, Lemmy,” said the 73-year-old.
It was too late to visit the sick
As he revealed in an interview with METAL HAMMER from 2018, after the last phone call with Lemmy, he wanted to rush to the side of his sick intimates – after all, he heard the musician’s condition. As he was about to leave the house, his wife Sharon finally informed him that Lemmy had passed away: “As we were about to leave, she came up to me and said, ‘You don’t have to worry anymore, he’s dead’. And I said, ‘Oh God,'” Osbourne recalled. He then collapsed completely – the news hit him very hard.
Lemmy to Ozzy: “You’re going to be bored to death”
Six years ago, the former head of Black Sabbath remembered it differently: At that time, he scheduled the last conversation with the Motörhead head for December 26, 2015 – two days before his death. “I couldn’t make sense of what he was talking about, he was so ill,” Osbourne said in an interview with Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald, adding, “Two days before I spoke to him he had just Birthday, his 70th. I mean, there’s not a damn good thing about dying at any age, you know?” But Lemmy simply said, “Well, I lived my life the way I wanted to live it. Who wants to be 85 years old? You will be bored to death.”
Lemmy Kilmister died on December 28, 2015 in Los Angeles at the age of 70.