Metal veteran Ozzy Osbourne moves back to his native England. In recent years, the 73-year-old Californian by choice has been in the media between a Parkinson’s diagnosis and several surgeries, mainly because of his state of health. in the Interview with the Guardian the Osbournes give another reason for the move across the Atlantic.
“I knew that people [an seine Gesundheit] would think. But that’s not the point,” says his wife Sharon Osbourne. “It’s just about time. America has changed so drastically. It’s not the United States of America at all. Nothing about you is unified. It’s a very strange place to live at the moment.”
Ozzy Osbourne put it more bluntly: “Everything here is bloody ridiculous. I’m sick of people getting killed every day. God only knows how many people have been killed in school shootings. And there was this killing spree at the Vegas concert… it’s fucking crazy.” A mass murder at a Las Vegas festival in 2017 killed 58 people.
The Osbournes’ home in LA’s uptown Hancock Park is already up for sale for $18 million. But that doesn’t mean their standard of living is declining: in Buckinghamshire, England, they own the 120-year-old Grade I listed Welders house, which includes 350 acres of land. In preparation for the move, they have also hired construction workers to build in a swimming pool and music studio.
“You haven’t seen the end of Ozzy Osbourne yet”
In early August, Osbourne made his first appearance on stage in a long time at the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games. They performed their hit “Paranoid” with former Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi. But the performance was on the razor’s edge, as Osbourne says: “I said to Sharon, ‘I can’t fucking perform.’ And she said, ‘Are you sure?’ And I thought about it, and I was like, ‘Fuck, I’ll do it.’ It’s a song — and I’ve sung it every damn night for the past 55 years, so it’s not like I’m going to forget the damn lyrics.”
He hasn’t given up the idea of touring either. “I tell you that I will do my very best for another tour. You haven’t seen the end of Ozzy Osbourne yet, I promise. If I have to go up there and die on the first song, I’ll still be back the next day.”
Osbourne was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2003, but didn’t make the diagnosis public until 2020. Most recently, he underwent a neck operation in June 2022. His neck problems originally stemmed from an ATV accident in 2003.