By Paul Glynn
Copyright bbc
Originally known for his music and wild rock ‘n’ roll antics, the British singer and his family moved to Los Angeles in the noughties and became the stars of their own trailblazing reality TV show, The Osbournes.
The BBC documentary follows Ozzy and Sharon as they planned their dream of moving back to their home in Hertfordshire, UK.
“I don’t want to be buried in America,” he declared in the documentary.
It also shows him undergoing physiotherapy and running on a machine aided by prosthetic back and leg supports as part of his “determined” bid to return to the stage one last time.
“He wants that opportunity to say goodbye to his fans properly,” noted Sharon.
Kelly – who features in the film alongside Jack and Aimee, Ozzy’s other two children with Sharon – offered: “I always thought my dad was invincible. But Iron Man wasn’t really made of iron.”
As frontman of Black Sabbath, the Birmingham-born musician is credited as one of the founding fathers of heavy metal, thanks to songs like Iron Man and Paranoid.
But he had a litany of health problems. He was seriously injured in a quad bike crash in 2003, and suffered spinal damage in a late night fall in 2019, which ultimately led to him having to cancel his two-and-a-half-year farewell tour.
