“People ask me, if you could do it all over again, knowing what you know now, would you change anything? And I tell them, no way, not even as a joke. If I were clean and sober, I wouldn’t be Ozzy. If I did normal, logical things, I wouldn’t be Ozzy.”

Husband. Father. Grandfather.

Icon.

1948-2025

In 2019, at the age of sixty-nine, Ozzy Osbourne was on a triumphant farewell tour; he was playing to packed arenas and receiving rave reviews from all over the world. And then… disaster struck.

Within just a few weeks, after being hospitalized for an infection in his finger, he ended up having to abandon the tour—and public life—as he faced almost total paralysis from the neck down.

THE FINAL RITUAL is the shocking, bitterly hilarious, and never-before-told story of Ozzy’s descent into hell. Ozzy recalls his incredible life and career, talks about his marriage to Sharon, and what it took to get back on stage for the triumphant Back to the Beginning concert, broadcast worldwide, where he reunited with Black Sabbath one last time.
Relentless, utterly honest yet surprisingly uplifting, this book shows why Ozzy was not only “The Godfather of Metal” and “The Prince of Darkness,” but also a modern folk hero and a national treasure.