Paramount+ has announced that Ozzy: No Escape From Now, the definitive account of the rock icon’s life during the last six years, will premiere on the service on October 7th in the UK, the US and internationally (excluding Japan).

Directed by Tania Alexander, the feature-length documentary has been produced in collaboration with the Osbourne family. Alongside Ozzy and Sharon, children Aimee, Kelly and Jack Osbourne speak candidly about the late-night fall their father suffered in February 2019 and the subsequent life-changing impact of that accident, which ultimately led to him cancelling his farewell tour.

“He was in hospital for weeks. To fall like that and not be able to bounce back like he had in the past, and then having to cancel the tour – that was his biggest heart-break,” says Aimee Osbourne in the film.

Detailing his numerous corrective surgeries, escalating health issues and the progressive effects of his Parkinson’s diagnosis, Ozzy: No Escape From Now delivers an unvarnished portrait of a man, highlighting how Ozzy’s ongoing chronic pain impacted his mental health and informed the music he made during this period.

“At that time, the depression was so bad. [He’d] be like what’s the point in even getting up? I’m not getting up. I’m not working with the physiotherapist. What’s the point?” adds Sharon Osbourne.

The singer reveals how Take What You Want, his collaboration with Post Malone – instigated by Kelly and producer Andrew Watt and released in October 2019 – kick-started a new musical phase in his storied career.

“It got me out of the blues. It helped me. That was the best medicine I ever had at that point,” comments Ozzy in the film, recalling the recording of the track.

Fans are also treated to the inside story of the two albums that followed – 2020’s acclaimed Ordinary Man and 2022’s double Grammy-winning Patient Number 9 – both of which contain some of the singer’s most reflective work.

“I do think that Ordinary Man is less an Ozzy Osbourne album and more a John Osbourne album,” says Jack Osbourne of the first of those albums. “There’s a lot of themes in it [where he is] processing his own life and mortality and what he’s facing.”

“I took dad to the studio every single day,” says Kelly, recalling the recording sessions. “He would go into the studio in the basement of Andrew’s house and get comfortable in this chair that Andrew bought him and it was like the magic would begin.”

Capturing Ozzy at home and in the studio, Ozzy: No Escape From Now also documents Ozzy’s last-minute decision to play at the Commonwealth Games in the UK in the summer of 2022 and his preparations for that performance; an exclusive soundcheck performance from his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in October 2024; and his journey to play the Back To The Beginning show at Villa Park in his hometown of Birmingham on July 5th.

Parmount+ notes that Ozzy: No Escape From Now was never intended as a posthumous film. However, following his death on July 22nd, the documentary now stands as a testament to his courage, wit, determination and talent.

Ozzy: No Escape From Now also features contributions from friends and fellow musical artists that include Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath), Duff McKagan and Slash (Guns N’ Roses), Robert Trujillo and James Hetfield (Metallica), Billy Idol, Maynard James Keenan (Tool), Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Ozzy’s longstanding guitarist Zakk Wylde, producer Andrew Watt, Billy Morrison, Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine), Mike Inez (Alice In Chains) and Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins), all of whom provide intimate perspectives on the man himself.

Ozzy: No Escape From Now is produced by UK production house Echo Velvet, in partnership with the Osbournes & MTV Entertainment Studios. The documentary is executive produced by Bruce Gillmer and Amanda Culkowski (MTV Entertainment Studios), Phil Alexander (Echo Velvet; former Editor-in-Chief, MOJO, Q, Kerrang!) and Sharon Osbourne (Sharon Osbourne Management).

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