Last Rites

Never-before-told stories of a legendary life from the rock 'n' roll hellraiser

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Last Rites

By: Ozzy Osbourne, Chris Ayres

Narrated by: Ian Danter

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People say to me, if you could do it all again, knowing what you know now, would you change anything? I'm like, f*** no. If I'd been clean and sober, I wouldn't be Ozzy. If I'd done normal, sensible things, I wouldn't be Ozzy.

Look, if it ends tomorrow, I can't complain. I've been all around the world. Seen a lot of things. I've done good... and I've done bad. But right now, I'm not ready to go anywhere.

At the age of sixty-nine, Ozzy Osbourne 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 hospitalised with a finger infection to having to abandon his tour - and all public life - as he faced near-total paralysis from the neck down.

Last Rites is the shocking, bitterly hilarious, never-before-told story of Osbourne's descent into hell. Along the way, he reflects on his extraordinary life and career - including his turbulent marriage to wife Sharon, his regrets over Black Sabbath's reunion, his friendships with Slash and Zakk Wylde, and the harrowing final moments he spent with Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister.

Unflinching but surprisingly life-affirming, Last Rites demonstrates once again why Ozzy has transcended his status as 'The Godfather of Metal' and 'The Prince of Darkness' to become a modern-day folk hero and national treasure.©2025 Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy OsbourneChris AyresIan DanterLittle, Brown Book Group

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Self-aware, level-headed and savagely funny, and not just by rock star standards

Brilliantly gossipy... unearths a new trove of rock and roll stories

Wild, and fun, and funny

A self-effacing and unexpectedly affecting portrait of the Prince of Darkness in twilight... Last Rites mixes ancient stories of Ozzy's rock star rapscallionism (entertaining, always) with meditations on the inevitability of death that grow thicker as the book lurches toward the only conclusion it can

An essential, entertaining read

Desperately moving

Genuinely big-hearted rather than contrivedly quirky, refusing to overwrite past ugliness but still brimming with gratitude...a fitting final encore for a life lived at extremes

Haunting, revelatory

Ozzy holds nothing back

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despite touching upon some of the same stories as his previous autobiography (which are told differently and kept fresh anyway) this emotional roller coaster had me laughing one minute due to Ozzy's sharp sense of humour and wild life and tearing up with hindsight now that he's no longer with us the next for all he'd been through in the last 6 years of his life.