{"id":19456,"date":"2025-07-24T21:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T21:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/19456\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T21:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T21:13:10","slug":"ozzy-osbournes-memoirs-return-to-bestseller-list-after-musicians-death-at-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/19456\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s Memoirs Return to Bestseller List After Musician\u2019s Death at 76"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> NEED TO KNOW<br \/>\nTwo of Ozzy Osbourne&#8217;s memoirs have returned to the bestseller listThe music legend&#8217;s 2010 book I Am Ozzy, and his forthcoming memoir Last Rites, were in top spots on one of Amazon&#8217;s bestseller listsThe Black Sabbath singer died on July 22 at age 76<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Two of <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/ozzy-osbourne\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>\u2019s books are on the bestseller list following his <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/ozzy-osbourne-black-sabbath-rocker-dead-7502904\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">death on July 22 at age 76<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As of July 24, Osbourne\u2019s memoirs, including 2010\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/114093\/9780446569903\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I Am Ozzy<\/a> and the forthcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/114093\/9781538775417\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Last Rites<\/a>, were in the #2 and #3 spots on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/movers-and-shakers\/books\/\" data-component=\"amazon\" data-source=\"affiliate\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon&#8217;s Movers and Shakers list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I Am Ozzy details the metal singer\u2019s life story, from his humble beginnings in England to his rise to stardom with the band <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/where-is-black-sabbath-now-11777410\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Black Sabbath<\/a>. The book also delves into stories from Osbourne&#8217;s life on the road, like the death of his friend, musician Randy Rhoads, in a 1982 plane crash.\n<\/p>\n<p> The cover of &#8216;I Am Ozzy&#8217; by Ozzy Osbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Grand Central Publishing<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_5-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> On July 10, Osbourne announced that he would publish his final memoir, Last Rites, via Grand Central Publishing on Oct. 7. Per the official synopsis, Osbourne wrote of his \u201cdescent into hell\u201d after he experienced \u201cnear-total paralysis from the neck down\u201d at age 69, leading him to step away from the public eye.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_7-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/p>\n<p>Last Rites also included reflections on Osbourne&#8217;s marriage to his wife <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/sharon-osbourne\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sharon<\/a>, as well as his reunion with his Black Sabbath bandmates for <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/ozzy-osbourne-black-sabbath-final-concert-11759553\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their final concert in Birmingham, England<\/a>, on July 5.\n<\/p>\n<p> Ozzy Osbourne in December 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Ilya S. Savenok\/Getty<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_12-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> &#8220;People say to me, if you could do it all again, knowing what you know now, would you change anything? I&#8217;m like, f&#8212; no,&#8221; reads the book&#8217;s synopsis. &#8220;If I&#8217;d been clean and sober, I wouldn&#8217;t be Ozzy. If I&#8217;d done normal, sensible things, I wouldn&#8217;t be Ozzy.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p> The cover of &#8220;Last Rites&#8217; by Ozzy Osbourne.<\/p>\n<p>grand central publishing<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_15-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cLook, if it ends tomorrow, I can&#8217;t complain,\u201d Osbourne continued. \u201cI&#8217;ve been all around the world. Seen a lot of things. I&#8217;ve done good &#8230; and I&#8217;ve done bad. But right now, I&#8217;m not ready to go anywhere.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_19-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Osbourne was also the author of the 2011 book <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/114093\/9781455503353\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trust Me, I\u2019m Dr. Ozzy<\/a>, written with Chris Ayres.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Osbourne revealed that he had been diagnosed with <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/health\/ozzy-osbourne-parkinsons-disease\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Parkinson\u2019s disease in 2003<\/a>. The singer faced numerous health challenges over the years in addition to the nervous system disorder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning,&#8221; the singer\u2019s family shared in a July 22 statement obtained by PEOPLE. &#8220;He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Two of Ozzy Osbourne&#8217;s memoirs have returned to the bestseller listThe music legend&#8217;s 2010 book&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-19456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}