{"id":41296,"date":"2025-07-28T00:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/41296\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T00:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:04:07","slug":"osbournes-black-sabbath-bandmate-wasnt-prepared-for-how-frail-he-appeared-before-final-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/41296\/","title":{"rendered":"Osbourne&#8217;s Black Sabbath bandmate &#8220;wasn&#8217;t prepared&#8221; for how frail he appeared before final show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geezer Butler, the founding bassist of <a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/topic\/black_sabbath\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Black Sabbath<\/a>, revealed how the band\u2019s final concert came together weeks before <a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/topic\/ozzy_osbourne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>\u2018s death. In a tribute written for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/culture\/music\/article\/geezer-butler-ozzy-osbourne-black-sabbath-lrwcqwg39\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Times of London<\/a>, Butler said he was initially taken aback by Osbourne\u2019s appearance when the band came in for rehearsals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">\u201cI knew he wasn\u2019t in good health, but I wasn\u2019t prepared to see how frail he was,\u201d Butler shared, in an otherwise glowing tribute to his longtime bandmate. \u201cHe was helped into the rehearsal room by two helpers and a nurse and was using a cane \u2014 being Ozzy, the cane was black and studded with gold and precious stones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Butler said that Osbournce became exhausted \u201cafter six or seven songs\u201d and was \u201creally quiet compared to the Ozzy of old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The concert on July 5 was still a massive success, with bands indebted to Sabbath performing before a double set of Osbourne\u2019s solo material and Black Sabbath\u2019s biggest hits. Osbourne died on July 22, after a years-long battle with Parkinson\u2019s disease. Butler shared his appreciation that he got to play one last time with a nearly lifelong friend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody knew he\u2019d be gone from us little more than two weeks after the final show. But I am so grateful we got to play one last time together in front of his beloved fans. The love from the fans and all the bands, musicians, singers and solo artists that night was incredible,\u201d he wrote. \u201cEveryone had come to pay homage to the Prince. I am so privileged to have spent most of my life with him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"red_box\">Read more<\/p>\n<p class=\"white_box\">about Ozzy Osbourne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geezer Butler, the founding bassist of Black Sabbath, revealed how the band\u2019s final concert came together weeks before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-41296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}