Overview
- Osbourne announced that Last Rites will be published Oct. 7 by Grand Central Publishing and released in hardcover, audiobook and ebook formats.
- The memoir centers on the severe health setbacks he endured since 2018—including a finger infection, near-total paralysis and a 2019 Parkinson’s diagnosis—that led him to end his touring career.
- He reflects on his six-decade career and personal life, including his marriage to Sharon Osbourne and encounters with rock legends such as Slash, Bon Scott, John Bonham, Keith Moon and Lemmy Kilmister.
- Last Rites recounts his July 5 farewell concert in Birmingham with a Black Sabbath reunion and performances by other major rock acts that raised nearly $200 million for Parkinson’s research and children’s charities.
- Osbourne declares in the book that, knowing what he knows now, he would not change a thing, underscoring his defiant embrace of an unapologetic legacy.