Kelly Osbourne reveals Ozzy’s birthday playing cards
Right now is Kelly Osbourne’s birthday, and it’s sadly her first with out her beloved father Ozzy Osbourne. Kelly posted photographs of Ozzy’s handwritten birthday playing cards for her, and he or she expressed unhappiness that she’ll by no means get one other one from him.
Kelly stated, “Tomorrow goes to be a primary for me. The primary birthday with out my dad. Yearly the factor I look forwarded to probably the most was spending the day with him and the playing cards he would write me. Understanding that I’ll by no means get one once more shatters my coronary heart. Listed below are just some of them. They have been all the time brief, easy however stated the whole lot I wanted to listen to. I like you Daddy tomorrow will suck with out you. 💔”
Ozzy’s eternal love is definitely shining down from Heaven onto Kelly on her birthday as we speak, and these photographs of Ozzy’s playing cards are a touching tribute.
Geezer Butler reveals final rehearsals with Ozzy
It’s been a troublesome time for everybody near Ozzy since his loss, from relations like Kelly, to bandmates like Geezer Butler. Within the newest episode of his spouse Gloria’s podcast “Gabbing with Girlfriends,” bassist Geezer Butler mirrored on Black Sabbath’s farewell present “Again to the Starting” – which happened at Villa Park in Birmingham, UK just a bit over two weeks earlier than Ozzy Osbourne’s dying.
Throughout their dialogue, Butler answered a number of viewer-submitted questions, together with one about how he initially reacted to being requested to carry out on the huge occasion.
“I suppose I used to be simply questioning how everyone would do,” he defined. “I knew Ozzy wasn’t in the very best of well being. I knew Invoice [Ward] hadn’t been properly for some time. Tony [Iommi] was up for it, and I used to be up for it so long as everyone else was. And I stated ‘yeah’ immediately, ‘I’ll do it.’ Particularly because it was at Villa Park, [the home stadium of] my soccer workforce and one of many earliest locations I ever went to and I used to be just a little baby.”
He then went on to recall reuniting with the band for rehearsals, and admitted how shocked he was to see simply how unwell Osbourne was.
“Once we get collectively, it’s virtually like we’ve simply seen one another the week earlier than, despite the fact that it’s been like six or seven years or no matter. After all, Tony was joking about Invoice ’trigger he stored saying he seemed like [‘The Hobbit’ character] Gollum. [Laughs] The one surprising bit was when Ozzy got here in,” Butler stated. “I knew Ozzy was very unwell, however I didn’t understand how unwell he was.”
“We have been rehearsing, the three of us. We began — me, Tony and Invoice — rehearsed for the primary two days simply to get all of the music collectively, kind out which songs we have been gonna do and the whole lot like that. After which on the third day, Ozzy got here in and he was helped in by two helpers. And I used to be simply shocked to see him like that,” he continued. “And, in fact, being Ozzy, he needed to crack a number of jokes and issues. And so they had like an armchair put aside so he might sit right down to sing by the songs, ’trigger he couldn’t rise up.
“I believe we rehearsed about six or seven songs and picked out 4 or 5. We knew we might solely do 4 or 5 ’explanation for the time restrict, and we picked out the 4 or 5 songs that sounded the very best and which we have been most comfy with. And after that, we fell into the previous Sabbath once more. Ozzy might solely do it as soon as, might solely rehearse, undergo the songs one time after which he’d go away and we’d kind of keep on. We needed to get the solos very well collectively and stuff like that.”
Talking particularly about his reunion with Osbourne, Butler added: “It was simply nice to be again collectively once more in spite of everything these years. I imply, he’s in all probability my oldest pal. I’ve identified him for 57 years, so it was nice to get again collectively once more.”
Concerning the truth that “Again to the Starting” solely happened 17 days earlier than Osbourne handed away, he stated: “I’m so glad it occurred like that, that we completed on such an amazing be aware.”
