Ozzy Osbourne called performing at Back to the Beginning “frustrating” because he couldn’t run around the stage.
That’s one of the revelations in the BBC documentary Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home. The film shows Ozzy, Jack and Kelly talking about the concert five days after it took place. Kelly said, “I have to say that my favorite part of the whole weekend was when Dad sang ‘Mama, I’m Coming Home.’ I don’t feel like there was one dry eye. Oh my god, Dad, everybody was crying.”
Ozzy responded, “I got all emotional with that. I couldn’t get the words out, I was just swallowing my emotion.
“The only thing I really got…what was terribly frustrating for me, I had to sit there instead of running across the stage. That was torture, because I wanted to get off that [chair] so much. It was very humbling, to sit in that chair for nine songs. What a great way to go out, that gig was.”
Ozzy also didn’t know what was he was going to do next. “I haven’t even given it a thought, what happens next. But I can retire with a clear conscience.”
Osbourne died on July 22nd at the age of 76, just 17 days after the concert in Birmingham, England.
