Overview

• In a new Rolling Stone interview, Andrew Watt says his conversation with Osbourne the day before he died felt routine and that the news was a “giant shock.”
• Watt describes the July 5 Back to the Beginning farewell at Birmingham’s Villa Park as “unbelievable,” likening the gathering to a heavy metal summer camp and noting time spent with Osbourne the night before.
• He produced Ordinary Man (2020) and Patient Number 9 (2022) during Osbourne’s post-2019 fall recovery and says the sessions lifted the singer and helped him heal.
• Osbourne died on July 22 at age 76, roughly two weeks after the farewell concert.
• Following a public procession in Birmingham, he was laid to rest in a private ceremony at his UK estate, and the BBC’s delayed documentary has been rescheduled for next month.