O zzy Osbourne is out of his mind. Not in the ‘bite a head off a bat and piss on the Alamo’ way, but in a more present sense. He’s climbing the walls after being cooped up for close to three years due to a series of serious health issues and operations.
“It’s been fucking miserable, man,” he says, speaking over Zoom from his home in Los Angeles. “I’m not good at this. I’ve never been this laid up in my life – Icould barely walk at one point.”
Ozzy’s problem dates back to his quad biking accident in December 2003, in which he sustained six broken ribs, a broken neck vertebra and a broken collarbone, necessitating the insertion of metal rods in his body. Though he seemed to make a full recovery at the time, even playing with a reunited Black Sabbath the following summer, he was left more vulnerable to injury. A fall in 2019 while he was recovering from a bout of pneumonia dislodged one of the steel rods, requiring him to undergo surgery to insert 15 screws into his spine. That’s when things went really wrong.
“The first guy who did my surgery cocked it up really fucking bad,” says Ozzy angrily. “I ended up in hospital for three months.”
The singer underwent further surgery earlier this year to correct the original operation. Ominously, his wife and
