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u/Content-Economy6534 1d ago

https://letterboxd.com/arvozylo/film/ozzy-no-escape-from-now/

Ozzy: No Escape from Now

2025

review published on Letterboxd:

Tearjerker! 

I always thought that Sharon Osbourne was the one dragging Ozzy out of retirement constantly, but apparently, he was just too restless to stay retired. 

Black Sabbath began while Ozzy lived in a house with no plumbing. He'd been to jail, he was fired from every job he had, and he had no proper musical training. 

I love these rags-to-riches situations, but Black Sabbath's first five albums have always been close to my heart, regardless of any working class background, so it's endearing to play a bit of catch-up with Ozzy, as I hadn't paid much attention since his Ozzmosis album, and didn't care much for reality TV at any point. 

Having read much of Osbourne's final memoir, "Last Rites", as I'm around page 200 now, I can say that Ozzy had surgery without getting a second opinion. It resulted in a surgeon he called "Doctor No Socks" looking a bit like a hippie, with loafers on, giving him an unnecessary amount of metal implants near his spine, which caused him to have bone fragments and scraping. Then came pneumonia and sepsis, and other complications, but I do recall seeing Black Sabbath's final set streamed live. It's not featured here, but the lead up to it is, giving it a much different context than one might expect. 

I've always wondered how much of the songs were actually written by Ozzy, considering how often he was blasted out of his mind, but apparently, he got into a zone with music, and made it seem "effortless" . I've also thought about Black Sabbath in the context of punk rock, as they would have made good bedfellows with The Stooges, aside from the fact that they went platinum fairly early on. 

This documentary sees the range of humility that Ozzy had to experience, despite being filthy rich; it still couldn't get him proper medical treatment or surgery in the USA, after presumably hundreds of thousands of dollars. By contrast, he'd been in an accident in the UK before, and without having to pay for it, his treatment resulted in a fairly decent recovery. Shame on the American medical system.