Rock’s Wildest Frontman prepares for one last show

Ozi Osbourne has somehow been made through drinks, drugs and dibchri for decades – to not mention prison, life -threatening accidents and Parkinson’s disease – but now last time has been preparing to perform for dedicated fans last time.

Black Sabbath formed an indelible impression on music by forging that sound, known as a heavy metal – and above that, Ozi practically invented the image of the Wild Rock Star.

In the 1970s, 80s and 90s, a semi-conscious dazzle, smelling and naping around the world, smelled and naping, he cut the head with some poor unwanted creatures on the way and ensured his place at the rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Innaphy.

Then in the 2000s, he and his family were converted into a new form of fame, when they unknowingly picked up reality TVs as the cameras captured the dishonesty of their domestic life (but affection) dysfunction.

Ozi has threatened to retire several times before – but with increasing toll with health problems, Saturday’s farewell gig looks actually like her swansong.

The 76-year-old, with his original Sabbath Bandmates, will re-meet groups characterized by a full day stadium show, which they have impressed for years-including Metalica, Slair and Guns N ‘Roses and Rage against the machine against the machine. This is not injustice, it is described as the largest heavy metal show ever.

Initially back, the show at Villa Park in Birmingham will actually take the band back into its roots.

The football field is a stone throw from Ozi’s childhood terraced house in the suburb of Eston. During the match days, young Ozi and his friends used to charge the match-going match-going to half shilling to “mind” their cars.

He jokingly stated that his first job in the music industry was as a car horn tunner in a factory, before getting a job in a slaughterhouse, which allowed him to play practical jokes in the pub by putting cows’ eyeballs in people’s pins.

But he wanted to avoid one day job intoxication so put an advertisement for a band in a record shop. He eventually inspired him to create a Black Sabbath with a school friend and guitarist Tony Iom, Bassist and Lyricist Geiser Butler and Drummer Bill Ward.

Other groups had called a sound similar to heavy metal, but Sabbath actually set the template with a combination of fast rhythm, deep rock rifs and fantasy and horror imagination.

The 47 -year -old fan from Birmingham, Joe Porter, says, “They were nothing to be a global superstar, while 47 from Birmingham, praising the band’s murals paintings, which are depicted in the city before Gig.

“If you see their initial concert, they have become basic [equipment] – A PA, a small drum set, a bass and a guitar and that is this. The sound they could make from those four devices were like 20 people on the stage.

“And the ozi is like a crazy on the stage, but in reality he is just a normal bloc.”

His appeal crosses generations, looking at the crowd in Ozi Osbourne: a new exhibition at Working Class Hero, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

21-year-old Bayern Howard-Mayaj says, “He started the year when my mother was born,” In 68, “I am a huge metal fan, so the fact that the promoters are coming back where all this started, it is really exciting.”

Another fan of Nottingham, another fan, Berford, has inherited a copy of the 1970 single Paranoid of Sabbath, in the form of a family heritage from her grandmother. “She went mad at seven inches and it went to my mother, and now it has passed by me. It is going through the family.”

He says: “They made heavy metals, were they not? Obviously the music is great, but he is wild, it just adds it even more. There is no one else like him, in fact, there is there?”

“I think he is still very real,” says Tobby Watley, director of the collection at Birmingham Museum, “He is still very real.”

“He sees himself as a child of a working class from Aston. He has not really changed. What you see is getting you. It is not going through a Hollywood lens and is somehow glamorized. People really love and respect it. And it is something that can be proud of Birmingham.”

The exhibition consists of artifacts borrowed by Ozi and wife Sharon, including gold discs and awards such as their three gramies and two rock ‘N’ Roll of Fame Trophy (to join with a Sabbath, the other as a single artist).

They reflect his music success, while his pictures and videos on stage give a small glimpse of that jungle.

“You never know what is going to happen next, and I think people like it,” Sri Watley says. “He is not a person who attempts to stick to the rules. He will take it his way in his style. I think it is a big part of the appeal.”

Some of his actions have become mythological.

The most notorious in 1982 was cutting the head with a live bat while on stage in Iowa. He was tickling raw meat in the audience on the tour, which inspired fans to throw things on stage in turn. He claims that he thought he was fake before the bite of the bat.

He has not tried to use the same excuse about two pigeons, whose heads were slightly closed during a record label meeting of the previous year.

His other adventures were arrested for urinating at the Memorial of Texas War, while wearing a cloth of Sharon; To be thrown out of the Dachau concentration camp on a trip during a German tour; Draw a gun on the drummer of the black sabbath on a bad acid trip; 12-Len Freeway Central Reservation Blacking and Wake up; And massacre the residents of your chicken coop with a gun, sword and petrol wearing a pair of dressing gowns and wells.

All this was added to Ozi’s legend, but most of his behavior was not really very attractive or glamorous. He was a debris, and drinks and drugs gave him a jacquel and hide personality.

In 1989, he woke up in jail that he was arrested on suspicion of an attempt to strangle Sharon. He could not remember anything about it. He released the allegations.

In 2003, so far the drink, he broke his neck after falling from a quad bike, and Parkinson’s detected in the same year. In 2019, he suffered a spinal cord injury.

Fans are waiting to see in which state he is on stage on Saturday.

When he was included in the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame as a single artist last year, he had to sit on a big black throne – adorned with a skull and a huge bat. The same throne has appeared in the pictures of rehearsal for this weekend gig in Birmingham.

Their body has survived more misuse on almost someone’s planet – but age and medical reality is holding her.

Sharon has said that the concert will definitely be his last show.

He and his fans are likely to be forced to accept that this is the case, although in the past he has found it impossible to stay out of the headlines for a long time.

“You know that time I will retire?” He said in a 2020 documentary. “When I can hear them a lid on my box. And then I will do an encounter.”