From the inventor of heavy metal to junkie, TV trash and seriously ill – with this CV Ozzy Osbourne proves his considerable survival skills. Now the “Patient Number 9” announces a new album. His first single from it can already be heard.
British shock rockers Ozzy Osbourne have announced a brand new studio album. “Patient Number 9”, the 13th solo album by the “Prince of Darkness”, will be released on September 9th this year and will contain 13 tracks. Osbourne is supported by numerous guest musicians. The album will feature Eric Clapton, Zakk Wyld, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith, Metallica’s Robert Trujillo and Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who died in March of this year.
The first single release, the seven-minute title track “Patient Number 9”, which features guitarist Jeff Beck, can already be heard on Osbourne’s website. The accompanying video is also available on YouTube.
With Black Sabbath, Osbourne was the founder of what would later become heavy metal, but his colleagues then threw him out of the band in 1979 because of his ongoing drug problems. A solo career followed with millions of records sold. The many anecdotes that have accumulated about the 73-year-old are also legendary. Ozzy bit off the heads of a bat and two pigeons, snorted ants – not synonymous with cocaine – on tour with Mötley Crüe and tried to strangle his wife Sharon while he was dead drunk on his daughter’s sixth birthday.
After the turn of the millennium, reality TV ruled Ozzy Osbourne’s life when he and his family exhibited for the docu-soap “The Osbournes” on MTV. The television series became a mega hit, but Ozzy went from “Prince of Darkness” to trash TV actor – the former Black Sabbath frontman was just a caricature of himself drug abuse marked man who was anything but trying to get clean, as it was then portrayed.
Osbourne’s last record to date was 2020’s Ordinary Man. The release of Patient Number 9 is by no means a given given what Ozzy Osbourne has endured throughout his life. In 2019 he had to cancel all tour dates of the year due to a respiratory illness, and at times he was even in intensive care. In the same year, he was also diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, as he made public in 2020. A dangerous corona infection followed in April 2022, before he underwent surgery just under a week ago because of persistent neck problems.
A short time later, the all-clear followed from the musician himself, who wrote on Instagram: “I’m out of the hospital and at home now and recovering well.” The Black Sabbath star added in the post, “I undoubtedly feel the love and support of all my fans and I send a big thank you to everyone for their thoughts, prayers and well wishes during my recovery.” And what better way could Osbourne thank his fans than with new music?
