Farewell tours have become pretty popular in the last couple of years, with music acts like Slayer, Kiss, Elton John, and Ozzy Osbourne announcing that they are embarking on one last tour. But, as it turns out, Osbourne and his No More Tours 2 were completely misunderstood by everyone. According to the 70-year-old former Black Sabbath frontman, he will continue to tour after this but won’t do it so “extensively.”
“People have gotten that all wrong,” Osbourne told Pasadena Star-News in a recent interview. “The tour should have been the ‘Ozzy Osbourne Slowing Down’ tour. What I’m actually doing is not going out on Jan. 1 and coming back on Dec. 31. I’ll still tour, but not as extensively like I have been for the last 50 years.”
“I have grandchildren now, and I’m 70 years old, and I don’t want to be found dead in a hotel room somewhere. I’m going to do it at a more leisurely pace and do some shows in Vegas … but I’ll never stop,” he continued. “The whole lifestyle I have lived, it has all come down to the fact that there are people who want to hear me and as long as they want to hear me, I’m there.”
Earlier this year, Ozzy Osbourne announced that he is embarking on a two-year farewell tour across North and South America, Europe, and Mexico. Shortly after, he decided to clarify his decision by saying that he will still do live gigs but won’t be touring around the world. If he keeps on changing his mind, we might soon watch Osbourne reforming Black Sabbath once again. Not that anyone would complain.
