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

"Osbourne comes off well in Last Rites: self-aware, level-headed and savagely funny, and not just by rock star standards."--The Guardian

"Ozzy holds nothing back."--Music Frenzy

"A charming and often poignant valediction from rock 'n' roll's Prince of Darkness."

"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."--The Washington Post

"Last Rites is the redemption narrative that 'The Osbournes' couldn't be -- 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."--Salon

"345 pages of Osbourne's plainspoken, expletive-peppered wit...rivet with conversational detail."--USA Today