Ozzy Osbourne Says He's 'Giving 120%' to His Upcoming Final Concert: 'If My God Wants Me to Do the Show, I'll Do It'

Ozzy Osbourne is fresh to stone and rotation 1 past time.

The legendary singer, 76, is gearing up for one past performance this summertime aft a series of wellness setbacks — and he has his eyes connected nan prize.

“All I tin opportunity is I’m giving 120%. If my God wants maine to do nan show, I’ll do it,” he said connected his show SiriusXM’s Ozzy Speaks, which airs monthly connected SiriusXM’s Ozzy’s Boneyard.

Osbourne is group to play 1 past Black Sabbath show connected July 5 successful his hometown of Birmingham, England. The performance, titled “Back to nan Beginning,” comes amid his Parkinson’s diagnosis, which has affected his expertise to walk, and complications from a autumn successful 2019.

“I haven’t done immoderate beingness activity for nan past 7 [or so] years,” he said connected his show. “By hook aliases by crook, I’m gonna make it there. I’ve sewage this trainer feline who helps group get backmost to normal. It’s difficult going, but he’s convinced that he tin propulsion it disconnected for me. I’m giving it everything I’ve got.”

When asked by his co-host Billy Morrison whether he’s been stressing astir nan upcoming show, Osbourne said he’s doing his champion not to fto nerves get to him.

“Sometimes, but what I do, if I commencement obsessing each nan time, I’ll beryllium insane by Friday, you know?” he said. “So I’m conscionable taking it 1 time astatine a clip and erstwhile I do it 1 time astatine a time.”

Meanwhile, nan Rock and Roll Hall of Famer besides said astir his astonishment astatine conscionable really overmuch of an power his euphony has had, recalling bands telling him astatine his Ozzfest show that he’d had a awesome effect connected their careers.

“I go, ‘I deliberation you’re conscionable saying that.’ I’m very self-critical astir people’s adoration… I’m not bully astatine accepting. [My son] Jack said to me, ‘Well, you’ve done it now.’ And I go, ‘No, I haven’t. I want to make much music,’” he said. “When I met Paul McCartney, I astir f---ing dropped dead. And location was a kid, he said to maine erstwhile I was explaining that, and he goes, ‘Do you cognize that was my acquisition of gathering you?'"

In an question and reply pinch The Guardian published earlier this month, Osbourne revealed that nan upcoming performance was his woman Sharon’s idea, and that she came up pinch it arsenic "something to springiness maine a logic to get up successful nan morning.”

“You aftermath up nan adjacent greeting and find that thing other has gone wrong,” he said of his health. “You statesman to deliberation this is ne'er going to end.”

Still, he noted, “I’ll beryllium up there, and I’ll do nan champion I can. So each I tin do is move up.”

The “Crazy Train” vocalist antecedently said that he does not scheme connected “doing a set” pinch Black Sabbath, but will beryllium doing “little bits and pieces” pinch nan group arsenic he feels “comfortable.”

The set will beryllium joined by Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Gojira, Halestorm, Alice successful Chains, Lamb of God, Anthrax and Mastodon. Guns N’ Roses’ Slash, Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, Korn’s Jonathan Davis, Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst, Wolfgang Van Halen and Rage Against nan Machine’s Tom Morello will besides shape a super-band for nan gig.