Ozzy Osbourne was aware he was near the end of his life when he took part in his final Black Sabbath performance, according to his friend Tom Morello.

Morello, who worked on Black Sabbath’s Back to the Beginning farewell gig in Birmingham on July 5, told Chicago’s Q101 radio station recently that Osbourne was “frail” for a while in the lead up to his death. (Osbourne died on July 22 at age 76 following a battle with Parkinson’s Disease.)

“The fact he lived to play and feel that love one more time, to do ‘Paranoid’, to do ‘Crazy Train’. If you have got to go — and I wish Ozzy lived another 30 years — if you’ve got to go out… it felt like he knew,” Morello said on the radio show.

While the musical director described Osbourne’s death as “tragic,” he noted, “Ozzy Osbourne had lived on the e

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