{"id":75350,"date":"2025-08-17T01:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T01:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/75350\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T01:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T01:42:06","slug":"geezer-butler-thinks-ozzy-osbourne-knew-he-wasnt-long-for-this-world-at-final-black-sabbath-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/75350\/","title":{"rendered":"Geezer Butler thinks Ozzy Osbourne “knew he wasn’t long for this world” at final Black Sabbath concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

While fans didn\u2019t know it at the time, Black Sabbath<\/a>\u2019s final show on 5 July would also prove to be the late Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>\u2019s final ever live performance \u2013 and Geezer Butler<\/a> believes that the Prince Of Darkness knew the show was his last chance to say goodbye.<\/p>\n

Speaking in the latest issue of Uncut<\/a>, the Sabbath bassist explains that Ozzy seemed to sense his hourglass was running out. Ozzy was a notorious hellraiser throughout his life, chomping down bat heads and snorting lines of ants, but he was relatively quiet at the final show. \u201cAt the final show, he was much quieter than I\u2019d ever known him,\u201d he reflects. \u201cLooking back now, I think he knew he wasn\u2019t long for this world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ozzy would eventually pass on 22 July \u2013 just over two weeks after Back To The Beginning<\/a> took place. While Butler believes that the frontman knew his clock was ticking, Ozzy apparently didn\u2019t seem to sense that \u201che\u2019d leave [this world] so soon\u201d after the performance. The Sabbath frontman had only just moved back to the UK after years in the US, and Butler explains how \u201cOzzy was looking forward to spending his days back in England\u201d.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in his tribute to Ozzy, Butler reflects on how thankful he is to have been able to perform with his Sabbath bandmates one final time. \u201cI am so grateful that we were able to play one final show together, the original four of us, back in our home town,\u201d he says. \u201c[Ozzy] held on so he could do that gig, to say farewell to the fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was emotional, it was so important to him to say goodbye after illness had prevented him from touring for the past six or seven years,\u201d he continues. \u201cHe wanted to see his fans one final time, play with his own band and with Sabbath one last time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Butler closes off with a heartfelt farewell: \u201cOzzy was larger than life and his legacy will live forever\u2026 He may have been The Prince Of Darkness, but for me he was a family-loving, soft-hearted, and the best friend anyone could ever have.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sabbath\u2019s Tony Iommi<\/a> has also gone on record stating that he believes Ozzy knew that Back To The Beginning would be his grand send-off<\/a>. \u201cI think he really just held out to do that show,\u201d he told ITV News last month. \u201cMe and Geezer were talking about it last night \u2013 we think he held out to do it. Just after [the show], he\u2019d done it and said goodbye to the fans. And that was the end of it, really.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s built up for it for a while now,\u201d Iommi continued. \u201cHe\u2019d been training and trying to do what he can, so he could do this gig\u2026 I think he must have had something in his head that said, \u2018Well, this is gonna be it, the last thing I\u2019m ever gonna do.\u2019 Whether he thought he was gonna die or what, I don\u2019t know. But he really wanted to do it and he was determined to do it.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While fans didn\u2019t know it at the time, Black Sabbath\u2019s final show on 5 July would also prove…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1896,49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-75350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-artist","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}