Ozzy Osbourne No Longer Popular? Rocker Feared THIS When He Performed at the Commonwealth Games Finale

Ozzy Osbourne is living proof that legends never die.

Having decades old of career, Osbourne surely reached the milestones no musician has ever savored before. Still, he reportedly had fears when he performed in his hometown, Birmingham, for the Commonwealth Games.

For what it's worth, Osbourne reunited with his Black Sabbath bandmate, Tony Iommi, for a special performance after facing multiple health issues in the past years. Despite his success, the rocker reportedly thought he has already forgotten ahead of the appearance.

In a new interview with Rolling Stone, he said that kids these days do not know him. With that, he never expected to "win" anything anymore. He even told his wife, Sharon, that performing is the only thing he has ever done in his life.

"I tell him, 'It's not true." He's had his struggles, and they've all been very public. But it's not true; he's hard on himself. He drank at first because he didn't have confidence and it made him feel good. It gave him the confidence that he didn't have. And then it turns on you," Sharon said.

Amid the challenges, he received the best response from the people of Birmingham during his performance, making him realize that his music never dies.

Ozzy Osbourne Had "Stormy Past" With Tony Iommi

Although the reunion was successful, Osbourne revealed that he once had bad blood with the Black Sabbath guitarist.

Osbourne told Apple Music's Zane Lowe that he and Iommi were "arch-enemies." They had been friends when they were still in school, but everything changed years after.

He noted, though, that Iommi has still been supportive of him despite that kind of relationship. He then called their Commonwealth Games reunion a nice event since Iommi reportedly used to intimidate him.

Lowe asked him whether the relationship was "the root of distrust" that caused him to be fired from Black Sabbath, to which Osbourne replied that he did not have much to say about what went down. Instead, he tried hard to put a melody but could not do so at all.

They managed to improve their relationship when he worked with Iommi on two songs for his new solo album "Patient Number 9": "Degradation Rules" and "No Escape From Now."

Before Osbourne and Iommi's 2022 reunion, Black Sabbath reunited in 1998 before bidding goodbye for good in 2017.

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