Heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne made a bleak prediction about the afterlife just weeks before he died. Ozzy passed away on July 22 after a battle with Parkinson's disease, just three weeks after his triumphant Back to the Beginning concert with Black Sabbath in their native Birmingham .

In his posthumous memoir Last Rites, to be published on Tuesday (October 7), he spoke frankly about what he thought would await him after the end of his life.

The Black Sabbath legend admitted "I've no idea" what would happen before he died at the age of 76 earlier this year.

He wrote: "People ask me what I think's gonna happen in the afterlife. I say to 'em, 'I've no idea, but it won't be long now, so if you hand around a bit, maybe I can haunt you and give you the answer.'

"As for what I want on

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