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Rock icon Ozzy Osbourne<\/b>, who announced his retirement from touring earlier this year, revealed in a recent interview with Rolling Stone UK<\/I> that he still hopes to perform live again, even as he takes it “one day at a time” due to his ongoing health<\/span> struggles.<\/p>\n

“It’s really knocked me about,” Osbourne said about a tumor discovered in one of his vertebrae during a fourth spinal surgery. “The second surgery went drastically wrong and virtually left me crippled. I thought I’d be up and running after the second and third, but with the last one they put a f\u2014ing rod in my spine. They found a tumor in one of the vertebrae, so they had to dig all that out too. It’s pretty rough, man, and my balance is all f\u2014ed up.”<\/p>\n

“I’m taking it one day at a time, and if I can perform again, I will,” he added. “I’m not going to get up there and do a half-hearted Ozzy looking for sympathy. What’s the f\u2014ing point in that? I’m not going up there in a f\u2014ing wheelchair. I’ve seen Phil Collins perform recently, and he’s got virtually the same problems as me. He gets up there in a wheelchair! But I couldn’t do that.” <\/p>\n

Ozzy said that a final performance would give him a chance to say goodbye and express his gratitude to fans.<\/p>\n

“For whatever reason, that’s my goal to work to. To do those shows. If it’s at Ozzfest or somewhere, or even a f\u2014ing gig at the Roundhouse,” he says. “If I can’t continue doing shows on a regular basis, I just want to be well enough to do one show where I can say, ‘Hi guys, thanks so much for my life.’ That’s what I’m working towards, and if I drop down dead at the end of it, I’ll die a happy man.”<\/p>\n

(Photo: Harmony Gerber; CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia) <\/p>\n

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