Black Sabbath guitarist Zakk Wylde revealed Ozzy Osbourne’s final text message to him in an interview with Guitar World.
Ozzy Osbourne’s longtime guitarist Zakk Wylde revealed the poignant final text message he received from the late metal icon after Black Sabbath’s farewell concert.
“The last text I got from Oz was saying, ‘Zakky, sorry, it was like a madhouse back there. I didn’t see you.’ He goes, ‘Thanks for everything’,” Wylde told Guitar World in an interview published Tuesday.
“It was just us talking, saying, ‘I love you, buddy.’ That was it.”
Wylde divulged in the interview that he had expected to see Osbourne — who died on July 22 at age 76 — at some point following Black Sabbath’s farewell concert in Birmingham, England, on July 5. But that never happened.
The guitarist — who joined Black Sabbath in 1987 — explained that he wanted to give the Prince of Darkness a reprieve from the chaos backstage after the show.
