Although he can remember hard rockers like the Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne is known to the bassist of Black Sabbath Terence “Geezer” butler as the Prince of Laughter. In an emotional essay written in Time United Kingdom, the group’s comrade recalled his friendship for several decades with the pioneer of Heavy Metal, recalling the training of the seminal group and their last days in rehearsal.
On July 5, the group gathered entirely for the first time in two decades, with guitarist Tony Iommi and drummer Bill Ward, to perform in a crowd of 40,000 in Aston, Birmingham’s Villa park, the group’s birthplace in 1968. The case live the observation of the stars was directed by a black shoe and a Hoof shoe shoe. Parton and Elton John. All profits to return at the start – totaling nearly $ 200 million – were given to the healing of the Children’s Hospital in Parkinson, at the children’s hospital, in recognition of the Osbourne diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease in 2019.
“I knew he was not in good health, but I was not ready to see how fragile he was,” recalls Butler of the group sessions leading to the farewell concert. “He was helped in the rehearsal room by two aids and a nurse and used a cane – being Ozzy, the cane was black and dotted with gold and precious stones. He didn’t really say much beyond the usual greetings and when he sang, he was sitting in a chair. We ran through the songs but we could see him exhausting after six or seven songs. were ready for the show.
He continued: “For me, Ozzy was not the prince of darkness – if he was the prince of laughter. He would do anything to laugh, an artist born. I first became aware of him when I went home to the nights in a rock club called The Pentheus. Her cut hair and mod.
Recalling the first days of Black Sabbath, long before Birmingham became the inflection point of Heavy Metal, Butler wrote: “Our first concert found itself in a massive fight. Being from Aston, you had to know how to defend yourself, and certainly Ozzy and Tony in particular were not foreign to fights. Most of its infamous puffing – the bat saga, biting the head of a dove, pissing on the Alamo, sniffing the ants, and the rest – came in its solo years, far from the constraints of the Sabbath crew, but if we were born. for a year.
By concluding his test, Butler said: “No one knew he would have started from us a little more than two weeks after the final show. But I am so grateful that we played one last time in front of his beloved fans. The love of fans and all groups, musicians, singers and solo artists that night was incredible. I think I should have written, but how can I summarize 57 years of incredible friendship in some paragraphs?
The legendary rock musician, solo artist and reality TV star died at the age of 76 on July 22, about two and a half weeks after his charity concert. His death was mourned by the world of rock and his peer colleagues from the music industry like John, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Billy Idol and more.
