Ozzy Osbourne is asking time on touring because of crippling accidents which, regardless of a number of surgical procedures, have rendered the rocker “bodily weak.”
The legendary Black Sabbath frontman, now 74, can now not do the miles, although his singing voice is “fantastic.”
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“That is in all probability one of many hardest issues I’ve ever needed to share with my loyal followers,” he writes on social media. “As you might all know, 4 years in the past, this month, I had a significant accident, the place I broken my backbone.”
After three operations, stem cell surgical procedures, cutting-edge procedures and grueling remedy periods, Ozzy admits he’s “not bodily succesful” of finishing his upcoming European/U.Okay. tour dates, “as I do know I couldn’t cope with the journey required.”
He continues: “By no means would I’ve imagined that my touring days would have ended this manner. My crew is presently arising with concepts for the place I can carry out with out having to journey from metropolis to metropolis and nation to nation.”
Along with his concession, Ozzy calls time on his No Extra Excursions 2 ultimate tour of the U.Okay. and Europe, which had been pushed again because of his well being points and COVID.
Although it’s the top of the street for the legendary British rocker, he hasn’t dominated out performing, as long as journey isn’t required.
“My crew is presently arising with concepts for the place I can carry out with out having to journey from metropolis to metropolis and nation to nation.”
Ozzy has soldiered on for years. His damage dates again to 2019, when the singer, who can also be battling Parkinson’s illness, had surgical procedure to restore an older damage he sustained throughout a 2003 ATV accident. A fall at house in 2019 sophisticated issues by dislodging metallic rods surgically implanted in Ozzy’s physique after the ATV accident, leading to 15 screws being positioned in his again.
Final yr, he went below the knife for a vitally essential process that spouse/supervisor Sharon Osbourne stated may decide his future.
The heavy metallic icon was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame in 2006 as a member of Black Sabbath and into the U.Okay. Music Corridor of Fame as a solo artist and as a member of the band.
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