Ozzy Osbourneis preparing for his first U.S. performance in over two years!
To kick off the 2022 NFL season, the “Crazy Train” rock legend will serve as halftime performer for the Sept. 8 game between the Los Angeles Rams and Buffalo Bills at SoFi Stadium, the football organizationannounced via social mediaon Monday.
NBC and Peacock will both broadcast the halftime set, which will mark Osbourne’s first stateside performance since the 73-year-old Black Sabbath musician took the stage alongsidePost MaloneandTravis Scottto perform their"Take What You Want"collaboration at the2019 American Music Awards.
Osbourne’s upcoming halftime performance will go down hours before the Sept. 9 release of his thirteenth solo studio album,Patient Number 9. The 13-track set will feature collaborations withJeff Beck, Zakk Wylde, Eric Clapton,Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready,Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith,Metallica’s Robert Trujillo,Guns N' Roses' Duff McKagan, Jane’s Addiction’s Chris Chaney and the lateTaylor HawkinsofFoo Fighters.
The Osbournes.Kevin Mazur/WireImage
Producers aim to capture everything from the family’s actual move home to Sharon’s upcoming milestone 70th birthday and Kelly’s soon-to-debut first child.
The series' announcement came days after Ozzy and Sharon toldThe Observerthat they were returning to England, largely because of the U.S.’s fraught political environment and too-common gun violence, according to the newspaper.
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne.Mike Marsland/WireImage
“Everything’s f—ing ridiculous there. I’m fed up with people getting killed every day,” Ozzy toldThe Observer. “God knows how many people havebeen shot in school shootings. And there was thatmass shooting in Vegasat that concert… It’s f—ing crazy.”
“And I don’t want to die in America. I don’t want to be buried in f—ing Forest Lawn,” Ozzy added, noting the famous cemetery in Los Angeles. “I’m English. I want to be back. But saying that, if my wife said we’ve got to go and live in Timbuktu, I’ll go.”
“But, no, it’s just time for me to come home,” the formerBlack Sabbathsinger clarified.
While Ozzy has experienced a number of health issues in recent years — he wasdiagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2003andunderwent a “major operation” in June, among other health scares — Sharon toldThe Observerthat the planned move back to England has nothing to do with her husband’s health.
Ozzy Osbourne.Daniel Knighton/Getty
“I knew people would think that. It’s not. It’s just time,” she said. “America has changed so drastically. It isn’t the United States of America at all. Nothing’s united about it. It’s a very weird place to live right now.”
Speaking toThe Independentfor a recent interview, Osbourne said he hopes to get well enough to start touring again.
Osbourne continued, “I will get back on stage if it f—ing kills me, because if I can’t do it then that’s what’s gonna happen anyway, I’m gonna f—ing die. I love to see them audiences.”
source: people.com
