{"id":147398,"date":"2025-05-31T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/147398\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:54:10","slug":"ozzy-osbourne-says-hes-starting-from-scratch-ahead-of-aston-villa-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/147398\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzy Osbourne says he&#8217;s &#8216;starting from scratch&#8217; ahead of Aston Villa gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Prince of Darkness is set for his final performance in his home city of Birmingham<\/p>\n<p>12:36, 31 May 2025Updated 12:36, 31 May 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_JS358755707.jpg\" alt=\"Ozzy Osbourne of Black Sabbath performs during the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony at Alexander Stadium\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Ozzy Osbourne of Black Sabbath performs during the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony at Alexander Stadium(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Music legend Ozzy Osbourne has shared that he is undergoing endurance training ahead of his farewell gig in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Prince of Darkness will perform at Aston Villa on July 5 for the Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The highly anticipated performance will mark the first time the original band members &#8211; Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward &#8211; have performed together in 20 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Gojira, Halestorm, Alice In Chains, Lamb Of God, Anthrax, and Mastodon will also perform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE:<\/strong> <strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/black-country\/bailey-atkinson-revenge-killers-jailed-31747654\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Bailey Atkinson &#8216;revenge&#8217; killers jailed for 87 years over horror drive-by shooting<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">All profits from the sold-out event will be donated equally to the following charities: Cure Parkinson\u2019s, Birmingham Children\u2019s Hospital and Acorn Children\u2019s Hospice, a Children\u2019s Hospice supported by Aston Villa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Ozzy, 76, suffers from Parkinson&#8217;s disease himself and recently shared that he is in intense training ahead of the gig.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Speaking to Billy Morison on SiriusXM, he said: &#8220;I&#8217;m in heavy training for this Aston Villa thing that&#8217;s coming up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;I haven&#8217;t done anything for it, it&#8217;s going to be seven years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been through all this surgery, and it really is like starting from scratch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He added: &#8220;It&#8217;s endurance training. The first thing to go when you&#8217;re laid up is your stamina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;So, believe it or not, I&#8217;m doing two sets of three-minute walks a day, weight training, I&#8217;ve got to get going, you know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Billy then asked him: &#8220;Have you just trained this morning before I got here?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Ozzy &#8211; who has also previously suffered a spinal injury &#8211; replied that he had, with Billy then saying: &#8220;Because I see light and fire [in you].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Sharing how the training has affected him, Ozzy said: &#8220;I&#8217;m waking up again in my body, you know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;I mean three minutes to you, for instance, is nothing, but I&#8217;ve been lying on my back recovering from unteen surgeries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Billy then said: &#8220;It&#8217;s great to see you looking good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">To which Ozzy replied: &#8220;Thank you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Prince of Darkness is set for his final performance in his home city of Birmingham 12:36, 31&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,29260,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-147398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-ozzy-osbourne","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114603731551905306","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}