Ozzy Osbourne made his final TV appearance in a documentary titled Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, which aired on Thursday night.
The 60-minute documentary followed the final three years of the Brummy singer’s life and was broadcast on BBC One on October 2.
The film was originally set to be released in August, but the BBC postponed the project, saying it was ‘respecting the family’s wishes to wait a bit longer’.
The Black Sabbath singer died aged 76 on July 22, just weeks after his final ever show in his hometown, Birmingham, titled Back to the Beginning.
In the documentary, he spoke about the final gig, saying: ‘What a great way to go out that gig was.’
On a sadder note, he revealed his one regret about his performance.
‘The only thing that was terribly frustrating for me, I had to sit there instead of running across the stage,’ he said, referring to the fact that he sat in a throne for the gig because of a spinal injury.
‘I wanted to get up and sing so much. It was very humbling to sit in that chair for nine songs.’
The gig featured not only Black Sabbath, but some of the artists they influenced, such as Metallica, Guns N’ Roses and Yungblud.
In an extract from his posthumous memoir as seen by The Times, the star opened up about his back issues.
‘They put me under in the middle of January and filled the cracks in my dodgy vertebra with this human cement stuff. I mean, I’ve got so many plates and bolts inside me already, why not pour a slab of concrete in there too?’
He revealed that things then went from bad to worse: ‘Then I got sepsis. It really was touch and go. I mean, at my age, with Parkinson’s and blood clots and all the other shit that’s going on, I had about as much chance of surviving a major sepsis infection as I did of winning the next season of Love Island.’
He revealed that he did in fact, manage to get better, only to get worse again.
‘After two months of antibiotics — on a twice-a-day IV drip — I somehow bounced back. I honestly couldn’t believe it. The sepsis hadn’t killed me. I was gonna live to do my last show. I celebrated by getting pneumonia again.’
The documeentary showed Osbourne taking on physiotherapy and using leg and back supports in order to get fit enough to appear on stage.
‘He wants that opportunity to say goodbye to his fans properly,’ said his wife Sharon.
His daugther Kelly – who appeared alongside Jack and Aimee, Ozzy’s other two children with Sharon – also added: ‘I always thought my dad was invincible. But Iron Man wasn’t really made of iron.’
In another moment in the documentary, he reflected on his life: ‘I’ve had a lot of fun,’ he could be heard saying at the end of the documentary. ‘I’ve had a lot of blood, sweat and tears, you know. It’s been a great life.
‘If I could live my life again, I wouldn’t change a damn thing.’
Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home is available to view on iPlayer.