{"id":3547,"date":"2025-07-10T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ozzy-osbourne-second-memoir\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T15:28:00","slug":"ozzy-osbourne-second-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ozzy-osbourne-second-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s Second Memoir, \u2018Last Rites,\u2019 Due In October"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2020\/12\/SC13-1608419365.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"722\" alt=\"Ozzy Osbourne\"><\/figure>\n<p>Fresh off what was billed as his final live performances as a solo artist and as a member of Black Sabbath last weekend in Birmingham, England, Ozzy Osbourne has set an Oct. 7 release for his second memoir, <em>Last Rites<\/em>, from Grand Central Publishing\/Hachette Book Group.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement, the book will include the 76-year-old hard rock legend\u2019s thoughts on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/07\/ozzy-osbourne-black-sabbath-last-show\/\">Back to the Beginning concert<\/a>, which raised a reported $200 million for charity. It will also chronicle his significant health setbacks over the past seven years, which have left him unable to stand or walk for extended periods of time.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/07\/deftones-new-album\/\">Deftones To Deliver Their \u2018Private Music\u2019 Next Month<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/07\/paul-mccartney-fall-north-american-tour\/\">Paul McCartney Plots Fall North American Tour<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/07\/outtakes-the-kiss\/\">Outtakes: The Kiss<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cAt the age of 69, Ozzy Osbourne was on a triumphant farewell tour, playing to sold-out arenas and rave reviews all around the world,\u201d reads a description on the book\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hachettebookgroup.com\/titles\/ozzy-osbourne\/last-rites\/9781538775417\/\" target=\"_blank\">preorder page<\/a>. \u201cThen, disaster. In a matter of just a few weeks, he went from being hospitalized with a finger infection to having to abandon his tour\u2014and all public life\u2014as he faced near-total paralysis from the neck down. <em>Last Rites<\/em>\u00a0is the shocking, bitterly hilarious, never-before-told story of Osbourne\u2019s descent into hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The follow-up to 2012\u2019s <em>I Am Ozzy<\/em> will also touch on \u201chis turbulent marriage to wife Sharon, his encounters with fellow hellraisers including Slash, Bon Scott, John Bonham and Keith Moon and the harrowing final moments he spent with Mot\u00f6rhead\u2019s Lemmy Kilmister.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople say to me, if you could do it all again, knowing what you know now, would you change anything? I\u2019m like, fuck no. If I\u2019d been clean and sober, I wouldn\u2019t be Ozzy,\u201d the Prince of Darkness says. \u201cIf I\u2019d done normal, sensible things, I wouldn\u2019t be Ozzy. Look, if it ends tomorrow, I can\u2019t complain. I\u2019ve been all around the world. Seen a lot of things. I\u2019ve done good \u2026  and I\u2019ve done bad. But right now, I\u2019m not ready to go anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off what was billed as his final live performances as a solo artist and as a member of Black Sabbath last weekend in Birmingham, England, Ozzy Osbourne has set&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[355,6,357,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-sabbath","category-news","category-ozzy-osbourne","category-pushly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}