LAST RITES, by Ozzy Osbourne, Hardcover Sale

Not Our Book! Our colleagues at Grand Central Publishing passed along a batch of Ozzy’s final literary effort. These new hardcovers are 46.66% OFF for you and may show a discount mark of the devil. 

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 

“People say to me, if you could do it all again, knowing what you know now, would you change anything? I’m like, f*** no. If I’d been clean and sober, I wouldn’t be Ozzy. If I’d done normal, sensible things, I wouldn’t be Ozzy.”

Self-aware, level-headed and savagely funny, and not just by rock star standards – THE GUARDIAN

Brilliantly gossipy… unearths a new trove of rock and roll stories – THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

Wild, and fun, and funny – THE STANDARD

A self-effacing and unexpectedly affecting portrait of the Prince of Darkness in twilight… Last Rites mixes ancient stories of Ozzy’s rock star rapscallionism (entertaining, always) with meditations on the inevitability of death that grow thicker as the book lurches toward the only conclusion it can – THE WASHINGTON POST

An essential, entertaining read – METAL HAMMER

Desperately moving – iPaper

Genuinely big-hearted rather than contrivedly quirky, refusing to overwrite past ugliness but still brimming with gratitude…a fitting final encore for a life lived at extremes – SALON

Haunting, revelatory – ROLLING STONE

Ozzy Osbourne
1948 – 2025

In 2018, at the age of sixty-nine, Ozzy Osbourne was on a triumphant farewell tour, playing to sold-out arenas and rave reviews all around the world.

Then: disaster.

In a matter of just a few weeks, he went from being hospitalized with a finger infection to having to abandon his tour – and all public life – as he faced near-total paralysis from the neck down.

LAST RITES is the shocking, bitterly hilarious, never-before-told story of Ozzy’s descent into hell. Along the way, he reflects on his extraordinary life and career, including his marriage to wife Sharon, as well as his reflections on what it took for him to get back onstage for the triumphant Back to the Beginning concert, streamed around the world, where Ozzy reunited with his Black Sabbath bandmates for the final time.

Unflinching, brutally honest, but surprisingly life-affirming, Last Ritesdemonstrates once again why Ozzy has transcended his status as ‘The Godfather of Metal’ and ‘The Prince of Darkness’ to become a modern-day folk hero and national treasure.

Ozzy Osbourne was born in Aston, Birmingham, in 1948, and was one of rock music’s most enduring figures as the lead singer of Black Sabbath.