Ozzy Osbourne Announces His Final ‘Full Stop’ Performance

Heavy metal recording artist Ozzy Osbourne says he will perform one last time this summer at a charity concert in the United Kingdom.

The British rocker is set to reunite with his former band, Black Sabbath, for the first time in two decades for this show, per USA Today. Osbourne, 76, has been dealing with health issues for years following a Parkinson’s disease diagnosis.

“Ozzy didn’t have a chance to say goodbye to his friends, to his fans, and he feels there’s been no full stop,” Ozzy’s wife Sharon told BBC on Wednesday. “This is his full stop.”

The charity concert on July 5 will include other popular heavy metal bands such as Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, and dozens of others. Organizers said that profits will be donated to charities, including Cure Parkinson’s, the outlet noted.

“It’s … time for me to give back to the place where I was born,” Osbourne said in a statement about the upcoming show. “How blessed am I to do it with the help of people whom I love. Birmingham is the true home of metal.”

Osbourne previously said he believed he only had “10 years left” and wanted to play a farewell show for fans.

“I’m taking it one day at a time, and if I can perform again, I will,” he said in 2023, as The Daily Wire previously reported. “But it’s been like saying farewell to the best relationship of my life. At the start of my illness, when I stopped touring, I was really pissed off with myself, the doctors, and the world. But as time has gone on, I’ve just gone, ‘Well, maybe I’ve just got to accept that fact.’”

“I’m not going to get up there and do a half-hearted Ozzy looking for sympathy,” Osbourne added. “What’s the f***ing point in that? I’m not going up there in a f***ing wheelchair. I’ve seen Phil Collins perform recently, and he’s got virtually the same problems as me. He gets up there in a wheelchair! But I couldn’t do that.”

He also said not being able to say goodbye to his fans was “one of the things I’ve been the most f***ing pissed off at.”

“If I can’t continue doing shows on a regular basis, I just want to be well enough to do one show where I can say, ‘Hi guys, thanks so much for my life.’ That’s what I’m working towards, and if I drop down dead at the end of it, I’ll die a happy man,” Osbourne said at the time.