Rock legend Ozzy Osbourne tragically predicted his demise simply weeks earlier than he handed. The Black Sabbath frontman handed away on July 22, twenty years after he was identified with Parkinson’s illness. The 76-musician definitely made certain to exit with a bang, performing his spectacular Again to the Starting live performance with Black Sabbath of their house metropolis of Birmingham.

In his forthcoming posthumous memoir, Final Rites, which is about to be launched on Tuesday (October 7), he candidly opened up about his ideas on the afterlife. The heavy steel star confessed: “I’ve no concept” relating to what demise may imply earlier than his demise earlier this 12 months.

He wrote in his e book: “Individuals ask me what I believe’s gonna occur within the afterlife. I say to ‘em, ‘I’ve no concept, however it received’t be lengthy now, so in the event you dangle round a bit, possibly I can hang-out you and provide the reply’.” Ozzy added: “As for what I would like on my tombstone, that’s one of many topics my household undoubtedly received’t let me talk about.”

The Kids of the Grave hitmaker was content material together with his triumphant homecoming to Birmingham for the Villa Park present, which featured in Sabbath’s remaining efficiency alongside music legends similar to Metallica, Pantera, and Slayer.

The daddy-of-six had beforehand speculated about what may be carved onto his headstone, saying nobody would have the ability to neglect a infamous 1982 episode throughout his Diary of a Madman tour.

Throughout a gig in Des Moines, Iowa, Ozzy was famously tricked into biting the pinnacle off of what he thought was a rubber bat thrown on stage, solely to find that the animal was very a lot actual.

Reflecting on the horrific mix-up in a 2004 interview, he quipped: “I do know what’s going to be on my tombstone, and there’s no getting round it: ‘Right here lies Ozzy Osbourne, the ex-Black Sabbath singer who bit the pinnacle off a bat’.”

In his 2010 autobiography, I Am Ozzy, he described the grotesque second: “One thing felt mistaken. Very mistaken. For a begin, my mouth was immediately stuffed with this heat, gloopy liquid. Then the pinnacle in my mouth twitched.”

Mark Neal, the 17-year-old fan who allegedly threw the bat, maintains it had been useless properly earlier than the present. Regardless of his fame for fearlessness on stage, Ozzy admitted to feeling anxious forward of his remaining efficiency on the star-studded Again to the Starting gig in Birmingham.

With a number of well-known musicians becoming a member of the ballet, Ozzy confessed that he felt the load of the followers’ expectations. Battling extreme well being points and fearing he could not make it to the stage, Ozzy thought of a spread of alternate options.

He revealed: “I stored saying to Sharon, ‘We’d higher get a video made ‘trigger there’ll be an empty stage’. She simply checked out me like I used to be mad. She is aware of me higher than I do. She knew I used to be simply scared.”