Ozzy Osbourne’s son responds to reports about how he died
Jack Osbourne has reacted to false reports about his father Ozzy Osbourne’s death in a new video, stating Ozzy did not ‘euthanize himself’ as rumored.
“I know leading up to it, there was all sorts of stuff going around about my dad going to Switzerland and was going to euthanize himself, and this was all planned, and it was not absolutely not,” he continued. “That is categorically untrue and ridiculous.”
He said his father was full of optimism and excitement near the end of his life after his final show.
“My dad had, he was so happy that he did the show and he was happy to kind of move into this next phase of his life,” Jack explained. “He wanted to spend more time in England. He wanted to spend more time with my kids. He wanted to spend more time with just exploring different things as much as he could.”
Robert Plant almost attended Ozzy’s final show
Just 17 days before Ozzy Osbourne passed away, he and his Black Sabbath bandmates performed what was billed as their last-ever show at “Back to the Beginning.” The star-studded event featured performances by dozens of other iconic musicians, all there to honor the legendary careers of Ozzy and Sabbath.
The concert was also attended by a host of rock royalty who did not take the stage, including Queen guitarist Brian May.
One person who was not there, however, was Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant who just revealed that he had been invited to the event, but ultimately decided not to go.
In a recent interview with Mojo, Plant explained that Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi had personally extended the invitation to him, but he declined it.
It should be noted that it is unclear whether Plant was invited simply to attend the event, or to actually perform at the gig.
Plant’s comments came as he was discussing his new album “Saving Grace” and his upcoming tour, saying that he is trying to move away from playing at larger venues.
“The gigs are small enough so that if nobody wants to go, it’s not the end of the world,” he said. “And so, by having that laissez-faire, easy-going, whatever it’s called […] attitude, instead of doing the football stadium with some old mates, there it was: we were free. We could mess about.”
Plant’s remarks about “doing the football stadium with some old mates” seems to be in reference to “Back to the Beginning” as it was held at Villa Park in Birmingham, England – a football stadium with a capacity of over 40,000.
He continued, speaking specifically about turning down Iommi’s invite:
“I said, Tony, I’d love to come, but I can’t come. I just can’t. I’m not saying that I’d rather hang out with Peter Gabriel or Youssou N’Dour, but I don’t know anything about what’s going on in that world now, at all. I don’t decry it, I’ve got nothing against it. It’s just I found these other places that are so rich.”
