US EditionOzzy's Black Sabbath Bassist Reveals His Condition During Final Gig
- On July 22, 2025, Ozzy Osbourne died aged 76, weeks after Black Sabbath's final Birmingham show, as Geezer Butler observed his frailty.
- Earlier this month, Geezer Butler, Black Sabbath bassist, reflected in the Sunday Times on rehearsals that began a month earlier at an Oxfordshire countryside studio.
- During rehearsals, Butler observed Osbourne helped by a nurse and two helpers, using a gold-studded black cane, and sitting after six or seven songs due to exhaustion.
- Butler said he was grateful to play one last time in front of fans but lamented that nobody knew Osbourne would be gone little more than two weeks after the final show.
- Following the final show event, fans and musicians paid homage, with Butler noting the love was incredible during the 10-hour tribute.
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Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler Recalls Not Being 'Prepared' For Ozzy Osbourne's 'Frail' Condition
Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler is reflecting on the band's final rehearsals with Ozzy Osbourne. In a piece written for The Sunday Times, the band's co-founder detailed how "frail" the late rockstar was in the lead up to their Villa Park show in Birmingham, England.
A few days after the death of Ozzy Osbourne on 22 July 2025, his friend and always bassist, Geezer Butler, paid him a moving tribute. In The Sunday Times, he reviewed their final concert together, his regrets, and the last moments of a friendship that had lasted more than five decades.
Black Sabbath bandmate 'not prepared' for Ozzy Osbourne's 'frailty'
Black Sabbath performed together for the last time at the Back To The Beginning concert at Villa Park in Birmingham, England, on July 5, and Geezer Butler was shocked by the state of his friend Ozzy Osbourne
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