Sharon Osbourne Felt 'Hope' for Late Husband Ozzy to 'Fire Up' Again After Final Black Sabbath Show, Reveals Zakk Wylde Shyla WatsonOctober 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM 0 Greg Doherty/Getty Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne in September 2017 in Los Angeles Ozzy Osbourne's longtime guitarist Zakk Wylde is op...
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Ozzy Osbourne's longtime guitarist Zakk Wylde is opening up about the rock star's final months
On Thursday, Oct. 23, he told Loudwire that Ozzy's wife, Sharon, felt "hope" that the musician's final concert with Black Sabbath would "fire up the machine again"
Ozzy died at 76 on July 22
Zakk Wylde is shedding light on Ozzy Osbourne's final months.
On Thursday, Oct. 23 interview with Loudwire, the rock icon's longtime guitarist reflected on Ozzy's last performance with Black Sabbath, during the band's July 5th benefit concert "Back to the Beginning."
"The running joke when I would text [Sharon], I would go, 'Well, look at this way, Mom, hopefully this thing will go great and then Oz will fire up the machine again," Wylde, 58, recalled, referring to the Birmingham show.
"She goes, 'Let's hope,'" he revealed.
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Ozzy Osbourne in September 2022 in Long Beach, Calif.
Ozzy died on July 22, just 17 days after his "Back to the Beginning" performance. The "Crazy Train" star revealed in 2020 that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in 2003, which later affected his ability to walk.
In the Oct. 7 Paramount+ documentary about the final six years of Ozzy's life, No Escape from Now, the rocker told Sharon, his wife of 43 years, "I'm looking forward to getting this gig over, hanging my mic up and spending some time with you. After this gig, we're free."
Wylde — who revealed his heavy metal band Black Label Society is releasing a new album — continued, adding, "I didn't think after we got done doing 'Mama' and 'Crazy Train' and everything like that [that] this is going to be the last time we're ever going to play or I'm ever going to see Sabbath again."
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Ozzy Osbourne and Zakk Wylde perform on stage in October 2007 in Los Angeles
He added: "I just figured we're going to hook up again when Ozzy's doing another record. 'Come on down and do your diddly diddly on it' or whatever, you know? I didn't think this is going to be the last time we're going to be hanging out."
Shortly after Ozzy's death, Wylde revealed his last text message from the "Iron Man" singer came the day of the "Back to the Beginning" show, when the rock icon was backstage.
In a July 29 interview with Guitar World, Wylde shared, "The last text I got from Oz was saying, 'Zakky, sorry, it was like a madhouse back there. I didn't see you.' He goes, 'Thanks for everything.' It was just us talking, saying, 'I love you, buddy.' That was it."
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