Ozzy Osbourne announces his last world tour

"People keep asking me when I retire," Osbourne, 68, said in a statement. "This will be my last world tour, but I can not say I will not do some acting."

British heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne announced that in 2018 he will make his last world tour, a few months after his band Black Sabbath bid farewell to the public.

On May 5 will begin in Mexico a tour that will first focus on Latin America, with concerts in Chile, Argentina and Brazil. The first of June will be played in Moscow, where he will open a month full of performances in Europe. The tour will end in North America, although the dates have not yet been specified.

" People keep asking me when I retire, " Osbourne, 68, said in a statement. " This will be my last world tour, but I can not say I will not do some acting ."

The life of Ozzy Osbourne has been full of polemics and eccentricities. In 1982, for example, he tore off the head of a live bat during a concert.

The musician was born in 1948 in Birmingham, in deep England, in a poor family. According to his memories he did not learn anything at school and his father told him "either you end up doing something very special or you end up in jail". At 18 he was in prison.

He worked by de-greasing auto machinery until one day he bought an amplifier and dedicated himself to be a singer. Along with his schoolmate Tony Iommi, a great guitarist, he founded the blues band with The Beatles as idols. Thus was born Black Sabbath, a pioneer metal group that sells millions of records, until a decade later, in 1979, his colleagues dismissed him as a drunk.

Alone and with his wife Sharon as an agent, Ozzy Osbourne resumed his career in 1980 with the publication of the album "Blizzard of Ozz". Two decades later he became the star of the reality show "The Osbournes" of MTV, which embodied the day to day of his family.

Last year he led a scandalous separation after having been unfaithful to Sharon Osbourne, but then also had a resounding reconciliation.