In 2018, 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. The late heavy metal legend considers his mortality in this posthumous memoir.
Instead of the typical rock-star tale that relives the glory days and gives short shrift to the rest, the former Black Sabbath frontman chose to lay bare his recent medical struggles in grisly detail ... Vivid.
A self-effacing and unexpectedly affecting portrait of the Prince of Darkness in twilight ... It’s not a typical rock god autobiography ... Ozzy is frank and good-humored company, his very British postwar stiff upper lip intact until the end ... But even in his prime, Ozzy appeared fuzzy-headed and never really all there.
