Ozzy Osbourne says he’s looking at making ‘one more album’ after undergoing surgery to fix a four-year-old injury to his neck.
The 74-year-old heavy metal icon, speaking with Metal Hammer, said that after he fully recovers from the surgical procedure, he plans on making new music and touring behind it.
‘I’m getting myself fit … I want to do one more album and then go back on the road,’ the Crazy Train singer told the publication.
The Bark at the Moon artist said that he was looking forward to collaborating with producer Andrew Watt, who he worked with in recent years on the records Ordinary Man (2020) and Patient Number 9 (2022).
‘I’m just starting to work on it now,’ Osbourne said, ‘and we’ll be recording in the early part of next year.
The latest: Ozzy Osbourne, 74, says he’s looking at making ‘one more album’ after undergoing surgery to fix a four-year-old injury to his neck. Pictured last year in LA
The No More Tears performer said he wanted to take his time ‘with this one.’
The Mama, I’m Coming Home vocalist opened up about the medical procedures he’s underwent: ‘I’ve had all the surgery now, thank God … I’m feeling OK – it was just dragging on.
‘I thought I’d be back on my feet months ago, I just couldn’t get used to this mode of living, constantly having something wrong.’
Osbourne said the surgery on his ‘spine went great’ and that he is ‘not in any pain any more’ but he can’t yet ‘walk properly.’
Osbourne initially sustained neck damage nearly 20 years ago, during a quad bike accident back in December 2003.
While he fully recovered from the accident, a 2019 fall re-aggravated the neck injury and lead to, what Osbourne said on Piers Morgan Uncensored was, ‘five years of absolute hell for me and my family.’
When Morgan asked fairly on in the interview how he was feeling, Osbourne revealed, ‘I finally had my last procedure two days ago.’
‘I can’t believe I’ve come to the end of it. The main thing is over now, I’m done with the surgery,’ he admitted.
Focused: Osbourne said, ‘I want to do one more album and then go back on the road’
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Five years: While he fully recovered from the accident, a 2019 fall re-aggravated the neck injury and lead to, what Osbourne said on Piers Morgan Uncensored was, ‘five years of absolute hell for me and my family’
‘But it’s been five years of absolute hell for me and my family. The family has been so supportive of me,’ he added.
‘I couldn’t have done it without them. It’s been a really bad scene. I have Parkinson’s, but I never think about it,’ he said of the disease, which he was also diagnosed with in 2019.
Ozzy’s son Jack added that one of the, ‘biggest misconceptions’ about his father’s health was that it was, ‘a result of Parkinson’s, but it was really the neck injury and the fall that he took in 2019.’
‘I carried on working with it, until I had a fall and then it just, everything came undone,’ he admitted.
‘I don’t gripe, I get on with it. If you are still moving, you ain’t going to be dead,’ Ozzy added, before Ozzy’s wife of over four decades, Sharon, explained how the family’s life has, ‘changed dramatically’ after the accident.
‘So many people can relate, who has a partner… it changes your whole life. Suddenly, you are off in another direction and your life changes so drastically. It’s really hard,’ Sharon admitted.
‘Especially in the summers because every summer Ozzy works and goes out and does festivals. For the last five years our life has changed dramatically,’ she admitted.
‘On the other hand it’s great I had Ozzy at home for five years. He’s driving me crazy!’ Sharon said with a laugh.
Supportive: ‘But it’s been five years of absolute hell for me and my family. The family has been so supportive of me,’ he added
Parkinson’s: ‘I couldn’t have done it without them. It’s been a really bad scene. I have Parkinson’s, but I never think about it,’ he said of the disease, which he was also diagnosed with in 2019
Misconception: Ozzy’s son Jack added that one of the, ‘biggest misconceptions’ about his father’s health was that it was, ‘a result of Parkinson’s, but it was really the neck injury and the fall that he took in 2019’
Partner: ‘So many people can relate, who has a partner… it changes your whole life. Suddenly, you are off in another direction and your life changes so drastically. It’s really hard,’ Sharon admitted
Both Ozzy and Sharon had said for the past few years that they had planned to move back to the U.K. as Sharon admitted they are coming home.
‘Yes we are, but it’s, with Ozzy’s issues, health issues, he’s not been ready to leave this country and his doctors because of different things that are happening to him medically,’ Sharon explained.
‘We feel we’re in a good place right now, but we’ve had our house nearly 40 years, and we haven’t lived in it properly for over 20, so when you decide to go back in a house, you realize that everything’s got to be changed,’ she said.
She added it has been ‘taking forever’ adding all of the gas and water pipes in and around the home that need to be redone.
Jack admitted he doesn’t think it will happen and he is the only one in the family who thinks it’s a ‘terrible idea.’
