Ozzy Osbourne Embraces Death Before Final Show: ‘I Had a Great Life’

Ozzy Osbourne accepted his impending death before he succumbed to a heart attack last month at 76 following a long decline with Parkinson’s disease, a trailer for a new documentary revealed.

Directed by BAFTA-award winner Tania Alexander, the feature-length film Ozzy: No Escape from Now, which is due to be released on October 7, has been produced in collaboration with the Osbourne family.

In the sneak peek, Ozzy is seen preparing for the last-ever concert, which took place July 5 in his native Birmingham less than three weeks before he died.

The show came after he was forced to cancel a planned two-and-a-half-year farewell tour because of a fall he suffered in February 2019.

Now, a new ad for his upcoming documentary has shown the Black Sabbath frontman joyfully preparing for what he appears to understand will be his onstage swan song.

‘If my life’s coming to an end, I really can’t complain,’ the late Prince of Darkness said in a talking-head interview. ‘I had a great life.’

Ozzy, his wife Sharon, 72, and their children Aimee, Kelly and Jack Osbourne will speak candidly about their father’s late-night fall in 2019 and the life-changing impact of that accident in the Paramount+ documentary. 

In the film, Aimee Osbourne says: ‘He was in hospital for weeks. 

‘To fall like that and not be able to bounce back like he had in the past, and then having to cancel the tour – that was his biggest heart-break.’

Ozzy underwent numerous corrective surgeries, escalating health issues and the progressive effects of his Parkinson’s diagnosis, in the lead up to his death last month.

The documentary will take a look into how Ozzy’s chronic pain impacted his mental health and informed the music he made during this period.

‘At that time, the depression was so bad. [He’d] be like what’s the point in even getting up? I’m not getting up. I’m not working with the physiotherapist. What’s the point?’ adds wife Sharon Osbourne.

The singer reveals how Take What You Want, his collaboration with Post Malone – instigated by Kelly and producer Andrew Watt and released in October 2019 – kick-started a new musical phase in his storied career.

‘It got me out of the blues. It helped me. That was the best medicine I ever had at that point,’ comments Ozzy in the film, recalling the recording of the track.

Fans are also treated to the inside story of the two albums that followed – 2020’s acclaimed Ordinary Man and 2022’s double Grammy-winning Patient Number 9 – both of which contain some of the singer’s most reflective work.

‘I do think that Ordinary Man is less an Ozzy Osbourne album and more a John Osbourne album,’ says son Jack of the first of those albums. 

‘There’s a lot of themes in it [where he is] processing his own life and mortality and what he’s facing.’

‘I took dad to the studio every single day,’ adds Kelly.

‘He would go into the studio in the basement of Andrew’s house and get comfortable in this chair that Andrew bought him and it was like the magic would begin.’

The documentary will also feature footage of Ozzy at home and in the studio, as well as documenting his last-minute decision to play the Closing Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in the UK in the summer of 2022 and his preparations for that performance.

An exclusive look at the soundcheck of his performance from his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in October 2024 will also feature, as well as his journey to play the Back To The Beginning show at Villa Park in his hometown of Birmingham on July 5, 2025.

While the film was originally due for release while Ozzy was still alive, makers of the documentary have said it ‘now stands as a testament to Ozzy’s courage, wit, determination, and talent – qualities that ensure he remains a hero to millions around the world’.

Contributors will include the likes of Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath), Duff McKagan and Slash (Guns N’ Roses), Robert Trujillo and James Hetfield (Metallica), Billy Idol, Maynard James Keenan (Tool) and Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers).

Ozzy’s longstanding guitarist Zakk Wylde, producer Andrew Watt, Billy Morrison, Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine), Mike Inez (Alice In Chains) and Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins) also provide intimate, heartfelt perspectives on the man himself.

Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne passed away on July 22 at age 76, and was laid to rest on the grounds of his mansion in Buckinghamshire, England. 

He was buried a week later on July 30.

Ozzy was laid to rest on the grounds of his own Buckinghamshire mansion last month during a private funeral attended by his family and a host of rock royalty.

His widow Sharon and their children were joined by stars including Marilyn Manson and Ozzy’s lead guitarist Zakk Wylde during the event at the family’s 250-acre estate near Gerrards Cross.

Official documents listed three causes of death for the rock legend.

This included an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, acute myocardial infarction and coronary artery disease, and Parkinson’s disease with autonomic dysfunction.

In a statement shared last month, Ozzy’s family said he died ‘surrounded by love’, adding: ‘It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning.’

Last month the BBC were reportedly forced to pull an Ozzy documentary from schedules after the late rocker’s family expressed concerns that the show was ‘rushed’.

In August Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home – billed as a ‘moving and inspirational account of the last chapter’ of the star’s life – was suddenly removed from TV listings just hours before broadcast with no explanation as to why.

It’s since emerged that the broadcaster allegedly had no choice but to take last-minute action due to the Osbourne family’s concern about the speed at which the show was made.

It later emerged that both the BBC and Paramount+ were producing documentaries on the rocker after filmmakers were given access to him for the final three years of his life, with the channels said to be in a ‘race’ to air unseen footage.

It was then suggested that it was for this reason, as well as the family’s worries about the ‘overall tone and theme’, that the documentary had been delayed.

A source told The Sun: ‘There have been conversations behind the scenes that maybe the BBC were rushing their show on Ozzy out – especially because Paramount+ also had a film in the offing.’

They told how the BBC’s production had originally set out to make a ten-part series called called Home To Roost charting Ozzy and wife Sharon’s move back to the UK, however upon his death, it was decided it would be a one-off film.

The insider continued: ‘What mattered the most to the family was the overall tone and theme of the programme, which features Ozzy and Sharon in one of their last interviews together.

‘It started to feel like the goal being pursued by the BBC and the makers of the film was to get the show on air faster than the Paramount+ doc. Naturally that has caused some concerns with the family.’

Ozzy: No Escape From Now will air on October 7 on Paramount+.