Ozzy Osbourne, who has sadly died, aged 76, skilled various shut shaves over time, together with a catastrophic quad bike accident and an on-stage encounter with a knife-wielding Satanist
Ozzy Osbourne had various “brushes with loss of life” throughout his decades-long profession, together with an encounter with a knife-wielding Satanist and a “witches’ coven”. Yesterday (Tuesday, July 22), it was introduced that the heavy metallic icon had sadly died, aged 76, simply weeks after performing a farewell live performance along with his Black Sabbath bandmates.
In a press release asserting his passing, his household wrote: “It’s with extra unhappiness than mere phrases can convey that we have now to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has handed away this morning. He was along with his household and surrounded by love.”
The ‘Struggle Pigs’ rocker suffered from various well being points over time and had been battling Parkinson’s illness since 2019, a situation that in the end led to him being unable to face or stroll with out help.
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Ozzy, whose hell-raising antics included biting the top off a bat, additionally had a well-documented struggle with alcoholism and drug dependancy and skilled a number of shut shaves with loss of life over his lengthy profession.
Certainly, a few of these incidents have been astonishing, together with an encounter with a Satanist in 1971, who jumped onto the stage throughout a Black Sabbath gig and wielded a “sacrificial knife”, writes the Telegraph.
It would not be the top of the weird ordeal, nonetheless, as a “native witches’ coven” later surrounded the band’s resort. Fortunately, the group’s drummer, Invoice Ward, managed to “scare them off” with what was described as a “pretend hex.”
But, Ozzy’s “brushes with loss of life” weren’t all linked to the occult. In 1982, Sabbath’s personal jet had been “buzzing” the tour bus in Florida, US, when it collided right into a home, killing the enduring guitarist, Randy Rhoads, Rachel Youngblood, and the pilot, Andrew Aycock.
In a newer incident in 2003, Ozzy suffered catastrophic accidents in a quad bike accident on his Buckinghamshire property, with the singer requiring resuscitation and breaking his neck vertebrae, eight ribs, and collarbone.
As well as, his “industrial-scale consumption of drink and medicines” in the end took its toll and had what the publication described because the “best impact” on his well-being.
Talking about his addictions, Ozzy confessed: “I’m one thing of a madman. I can do nothing sparsely. If it is booze, I drink the place dry. If it is medicine, I take every part after which scrape the carpet for little crumbs.”
In 2024, studies emerged that Ozzy had been substance-free for a lot of the earlier 10 years, however he revealed that 12 months he wasn’t “fully sober”, admitting on his speak present, The Madhouse Chronicles, that he used a “little bit of marijuana now and again.”
Ozzy, who carried out sat down on a throne in entrance of 42,000 followers lower than three weeks in the past, obtained an outpouring of tributes from the worlds of rock and metallic following the tragic announcement that he’d handed away.
A few of the names included Ronnie Wooden from the Rolling Stones, Ali Campbell from UB40, Sir Elton John, Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, and Inexperienced Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong.
Talking at his farewell gig, Ozzy mentioned: “You’ve got no thought how I really feel – thanks from the underside of my coronary heart.”
