Ozzy Osbourne has stated he was “most likely one of many final individuals” to talk to Motorhead‘s Lemmy Kilmister earlier than his dying.
The hard-living rock icon loved a detailed friendship with Osbourne and co-wrote a big selection of the Black Sabbath frontman’s solo tracks earlier than he died from most cancers in 2015.
Chatting with Planet Rock, Osbourne defined how he rang Lemmy one ultimate time after being made conscious of his failing well being.
“I’d telephone him up; anyone stated he was not gonna make it, so I phoned him and I put him on the telephone. And I couldn’t make out what he was saying. It was horrible,” he stated.
The pair had been additionally frequent tour mates – together with a ultimate run of reveals in South America in 2015 which proved to be the primary indicator of Lemmy’s sick well being.
Lemmy Kilmister, founding father of Motorhead (Image: Getty)
“I flew right down to South America with him about six months earlier than, and he regarded terribly skinny and gowned, and my coronary heart broke for him,” Osbourne recalled.
“He tried to hold on as regular nevertheless it was one of many issues the place he is aware of you understand however you didn’t need to say something. However he labored proper as much as the very finish. He stated, ‘I might have most likely lived one other 10 years if I hadn’t smoked and didn’t stay my way of life, however I lived my life the best way I wished to stay it.’”
Elsewhere within the interview, Osbourne and his spouse Sharon mirrored on Lemmy writing ‘No Extra Tears’ on Ozzy’s 1990 file ‘No Extra Tears’ – a monitor which he’s rumoured to have written in quarter-hour.
“It was performed in a short time as a result of Lemmy had performed a lot touring with Ozzy, and we lived in the identical city, and he was a very good good friend of each of us,” Sharon stated.
“And he was most likely probably the most well-read man I’d ever met in my life. Sensible, he had a superb vocabulary, and I don’t assume that many individuals realise that.”
In the meantime, Ozzy is claimed to be halfway through work on the follow-up to 2020’s ‘Extraordinary Man’ – which is able to function appearances from Metallica’s Robert Trujillo on bass and shared drumming duties from Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins and Pink Scorching Chilli Peppers’ Chad Smith.
