Last Rites

Shocking, bitterly hilarious and surprisingly life-affirming, the brutally honest and unflinching memoir from rock'n'roll hellraiser Ozzy Osbourne.

Self-aware, level-headed and savagely funny, and not just by rock star standards

Brilliantly gossipy... unearths a new trove of rock and roll stories

Wild, and fun, and funny

A self-effacing and unexpectedly affecting portrait of the Prince of Darkness in twilight... Last Rites mixes ancient stories of Ozzy's rock star rapscallionism (entertaining, always) with meditations on the inevitability of death that grow thicker as the book lurches toward the only conclusion it can

An essential, entertaining read

Desperately moving

Genuinely big-hearted rather than contrivedly quirky, refusing to overwrite past ugliness but still brimming with gratitude...a fitting final encore for a life lived at extremes

Haunting, revelatory

Ozzy holds nothing back

OZZY OSBOURNE was born in Aston, Birmingham, in 1948 and was one of rock music's most enduring figures as the lead singer of Black Sabbath. He achieved even greater heights as a solo artist. Ozzy is survived by his wife, Sharon, and his five children.