New Ozzy Osbourne Memoir, 'Last Rites', Out Tomorrow

Tomorrow (Tuesday, October 7) marks the publication of Ozzy Osbourne's second autobiography, Last Rites (Grand Central Publishing). The memoir was finished just days before the rock icon’s untimely passing and it chronicles the past seven or so years of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy®-winning singer and songwriter’s life. 

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Last Rites is the shocking, bitterly hilarious, never-before-told story of the singer's descent into hell. Along the way, he reflects on his extraordinary life and career, including his marriage to wife Sharon, alongside his reflections on what it took for him to get back onstage for the triumphant “Back to the Beginning” concert, streamed around the world, where Osbourne finally reunited with his Black Sabbath bandmates and surrounded by the musicians he’d befriended throughout his storied career. Unflinching, brutally honest, but surprisingly life-affirming, Last Rites demonstrates once again why Ozzy Osbourne has transcended his status as “The Godfather of Metal” and “The Prince of Darkness” to become a modern-day folk hero and international treasure.

At the age of 69, the singer was on a triumphant farewell tour, playing to sold-out arenas and rave reviews all around the world. Then disaster. In a matter of just a few weeks, he went from being hospitalized with a finger infection to having to abandon his tour—and all public life—as he faced near-total paralysis from the neck down. He never toured again.

On July 22, Ozzy Osbourne, at the age of 76, passed away, just weeks after his final public performance.