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Ozzy Osbourne knew that his remaining live performance can be his remaining live performance.
That’s what fellow rock legend Tom Morello is saying.
And he ought to know, as he labored with the Black Sabbath icon — even directing his farewell live performance simply weeks earlier than his passing.
Morello has nothing however reward for “all time great” Osbourne, and admits that it was a “miracle” that he lived to 76.
Musician Ozzy Osbourne performs throughout half-time of the NFL recreation between the Los Angeles Rams and the Buffalo Payments at SoFi Stadium on September 08, 2022. (Picture Credit score: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Pictures)
It ‘felt like’ Ozzy Osbourne ‘knew’
On Chicago’s Q0101 radio present this week, Tom Morello — finest recognized for Rage In opposition to The Machine and Audioslave — praised fellow rock legend Ozzy Osbourne.
“If you have got to go — I mean, I wish Ozzy lived another 30 years —–but if you’ve got to go out, it really felt like he knew,” he noticed.
Morello praised Osbourne as “one of the all-time greats.”
Ozzy Osbourne speaks onstage through the 2024 Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame Induction Ceremony streaming on Disney+ at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse on October 19, 2024. (Picture Credit score: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Pictures for The Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame)
Morello notably labored because the music director for Osbourne’s farewell live performance, Again to the Starting. That was in England on July 5.
Osbourne was “frail” on the time.
He would in the end move simply 17 days later, on July 22.
Morello gushed over “the fact that he lived to play and feel that love and to one more time; you know, to do ‘Paranoid;’ to do ‘Crazy Train.’”
Musician Ozzy Osbourne performs throughout half-time of the NFL recreation between the Los Angeles Rams and the Buffalo Payments at SoFi Stadium on September 08, 2022. (Picture Credit score: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Pictures)
‘A spiritually great moment for all fans’
“On the day, a million things could have gone wrong, and maybe like three things did,” Tom Morello acknowledged of the Ozzy Osbourne farewell live performance.
“But it felt like a spiritually great moment for all fans of rock and roll,” he expressed.
Rock legend Ozzy Osbourne of Black Sabbath performs on August 08, 2022. (Picture Credit score: Alex Pantling/Getty Pictures)
Morello noticed that Osbourne “had been frail for a while, but friends of mine saw him a week later.”
Concurrently, the Black Sabbath rocker’s dying was a “tragedy” whereas his life was a “miracle” just because he “lived as long as he did.”
Dwelling to 76 can be virtually unattainable for most individuals trying to emulate Osbourne’s rock star way of life.
(Please, don’t attempt to emulate it; his genetic quirks allowed him to outlive issues that almost all wouldn’t)
Ozzy Osbourne of Black Sabbath performs through the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Video games Closing Ceremony at Alexander Stadium on August 08, 2022. (Picture Credit score: Alex Pantling/Getty Pictures)
‘The greatest day in the history of heavy metal’
Tom Morello went on to affirm that he got down to make the ultimate Ozzy Osbourne live performance “the greatest day in the history of heavy metal.”
He acknowledged that the late rocker “lived a pretty on-the-edge lifestyle for a long time.”
Osbourne’s legend will endure for generations.
His bigger than life persona and his affect on the music world can’t be overstated.
