The Josh Innes Show - The Ozzy Doc Was Great

Episode Date: October 15, 2025

Jilly and I finally watched the Ozzy Doc last night and it was great. Now, it was at times depressing. But, it was outstanding. It's amazing how badly these doctors screwed him up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So last night, since there wasn't any important football on TV or anything major sports-wise, Jillie and I got to sit on the couch at a reasonable hour and watch something non-sports-related, which is very rare for us. And especially during this time of year. But we watched the Ozzy documentary, the Osborne family one that is called, let's see what the actual name of it was. Ozzy, no escape from now. And that's the one that was kind of filmed over like four or five years. It was actually dated back into like 2018, 2019, when Ozzy fell and had all these bad surgeries.

And it kind of culminates with the show that happened literally three weeks before the guy died. Fucking nuts. Fucking nuts. But the documentary was compelling, sad, but compelling. And let's talk about that. I love a good documentary. I love rock documentaries. You know that my favorite of all time is the Eagles documentary.

but this was intriguing and heartbreaking but compelling. Let's get into that. We will do so after these messages. With Amex Platinum, access to exclusive Amex pre-sale tickets can score you a spot trackside. So being a fan for life turns into the trip of a lifetime. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Pre-sale tickets for future events subject to availability and varied by race. Turns and conditions apply.

Learn more at MX.ca.ca. All right, headline, Ozzy, no escape from now, director on the rock icon dying while the documentary was an edit, why the Osborne family wanted us to keep going, and their one request for the film's ending. I guess there's no spoiler alert in a documentary, right? This isn't a true crime thing, so if I'm telling you shit about it, it's not like, you know, you're going to find out that the nun was, you know, murdered by the priest or something like that. A, because we never get a resolution in any of these fucking documentaries anyway that are like, hey, watch. this documentary and you're going to find out, you know, like who killed sister O'Hulahan and then we never find out who the fuck killed sister O'Hulahann.

But I digress. Ozzy, no escape from now, released on Paramount Plus on October 6th, is a posthumous feature documentary looking back at the final years of Ozzy Osbourne's life. And it really was fucking sad what happened to this guy. Like, not, you know, spoiler alert here, I guess. But this is out there for the public anyway. like this dude fell down and they find out that his neck was broken and these doctors basically fucked him up first of all they sent him back home the night of and they're bruised up nothing wrong

come to find out the guy's neck's broken and then this guy does a surgery that wasn't even really necessary and it was a surgery that set this dude back so much that he never toured again it's fucking sad and when you watch this stuff you're like how do you trust doctors how do you trust these butchers and this shit they do to people like it's wild to me man The money we pay for insurance, and we go see these doctors, and I don't know how people trust them. The fact that you could send a guy to the emergency room, they look and they're like, well, we don't see anything here. It looks like you just got some bruising. Next day, we find out his neck's broken.

Then he has like a surgery that fucks him up even worse. Just sad, man, because like, Ozzy's such a likable guy. Like, I get the guy's got baggage and the guy was a fucking addict and the guy was seemingly not a great guy for a long stretch of time. But he's a likable dude. affable guy and the Osbournes helped do that and all that. But man, you watch this and you just feel terrible for him and you feel terrible for the family. Let's

see, Brit director Tanya Alexander with the consent and involvement of Sharon Osborne, had set out to make a film exploring the aftermath of Ozzy's life-changing fall in 2019, the toll it took on him and his mental health and his family alongside his desperate efforts to get back on stage and the emotional devastation

and having to cancel his farewell tour. Amid the pain, no escape from now also manages to showcase the comfort as he found in making music once more, particularly for what would be his final studio album, patient number nine, and his determination to say one last goodbye to his fans culminating in his triumphant farewell gig in his home city of Birmingham, surrounded by some of the biggest rock stars on the planet. Most of them extremely emotional about honoring their hero. It was really good. It was compelling. You learn a lesson in mortality when you watch. these because you think these people are larger than life and you see dudes like Sammy Hagar who's in this documentary Sammy Hagar had his birthday the other day and he's almost 80 and he bounces around on stage and he's young seemingly and healthy and still gets around better than I do and he just lives life right like he's an example of how

just living a young mindset and living that life keeps you young and then you watch Ozzie basically the same age and poor Ozzie spent the last seven years of his life almost as a corpse damn near bedridden constantly in pain, emotionally wrecked over this feeling less than. Like, it's just, it's fucking crushing. Now, this is not a documentary that I would say, like, is super depressing. Like, it's sad and it's unfortunate, but it's not like you're watching, you know, like Schindler's List or something.

You're not watching a Holocaust documentary or something like that. Like, that's super depressing, and you're like, God, I got to turn this shit off. Like, this is just too sad. This is emotional and sad, but it's still compelling. And it's like, this is the guy that basically invented. and metal and here he is bedridden and just because he got fucked up by someone like you would think that it's the Parkinson's that fucked him up and yeah Parkinson's is no good but my god like the fall and then the aftermath of the fall and how he was treated for this fall is absurd

Phil Alexander producer and former editor of Kerrang magazine and I have a very longstanding relationship with the Osbournes we knew what happened to Ozzie we knew around the time he was doing patient number nine. We had a conversation with Sharon. She wanted to tell the story of what happened to him since the fall, since we knew, which he knew had really impacted him and the family. And she said, well, I really want it told, but I want it told as it is. As harsh as it is, I don't want any punches pulled. What was the rule about the end? The doc builds up to Ozzy's final farewell show in Birmingham and whether or not he'll be able to appear, but this gig hadn't been discussed when you started.

This is an interview, which is crazy. When we first started filming with him, he had to postpone his world tour. So when we were filming, it was always about, will he be able to do the tour? Can he get off the ground, do the tour? And then he does the Commonwealth games and goes back with all the guns blazing saying, I'm going to do the tour. And then the rugs pulled again. So up until that point, we were seeing if he could get back on stage to do the tour.

And then it literally happened in that chat. He'd been saying to share, and I feel I haven't said goodbye and thank you to my fans. and if I can't do a tour, I need to do something. And so she said about doing this one last show, we didn't start off with that being the end. Our pitch was a story about one man's battle to get back on stage one last time. But that's what it became. And the determination I saw, he had sepsis at the end of April. I think he had 72 days before he was meant to be on stage.

The determination was phenomenal. That's the other thing. You're watching this documentary and this dude's dealing with all this shit. And then he gets sepsis. It's nuts. This was made as a living dock. What stage were you at when Ozzy passed away? We were in the edit and had another six weeks to go.

We'd cut 90 minutes and we were doing the last 30, the buildup to the farewell gig. After he died, there was a part of me that thought, if look back on the 90 minute now, it's going to look different through that lens. So I watched it back and didn't change it. I just thought, no, it's the same film I cut before. and it ends in exactly the same way, the way we always wanted, where it cuts to black, apart from where we added the funeral procession at the end of the request of the family. The conversations that were had with the documentary of the family,

who were obviously in mourning at the time, was there ever a suggestion of not keeping going with it? They wanted us to keep going. Sharon has always been really behind it. There was a request from the family that we added the cortege montage, the courtage, the Cortege montage at the end, so we did. But otherwise, it didn't change, and it ended where it was meant to end originally. It was good. It was a good documentary.

It was a compelling documentary. It was an emotional documentary. Ozzy's such an affable, likable guy at that stage in his life. And then you just see him cut down by this shit. And it's like, it's a documentary about a rock star at the end of it. And you see these people who are young and virile and they're on the top of the world. And then the Reaper, you know, comes for everybody, you know, father time. It's such a lame term.

It's father time is undefeated. And yes, father time is undefeated. And watching that was so just, it was an emotional thing. And it's compelling and really fascinating. There are other Aussie documentaries that are out too that I haven't watched yet. But I would recommend this highly. I think it's interesting. It's, you just sucked into it.

Because then there are moments that you kind of see this, the same. same Ozzy that you saw in the Osbournes, but a lot of it is just this guy that's just sad and run down and almost bedridden and doesn't leave the house and was contemplating not even going to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony where he got inducted, which the other thing that was a small angle in that documentary was about how it took all these years to get Ozzy into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And it's like, why do you wait till these guys are on their deathbed to put them in this thing that's so important to them?

And it's such a cock sucker move. These pieces. It's so shitty. And that was kind of an angle there. But either way, it was compelling and interesting. And I would recommend it. And now I'm on a kick where I want to watch more music documentaries. Like me and my boss were talking about Rick Rubin. And there is a Rick Rubin documentary. And I just have to find what the hell the thing was called. But I got to see where to watch it. I think it's called Shangri-Law. Is that the documentary? Shangri-Law Showtime. Docu-Series explores the creative conversation, an emotional side of music making. But there is a documentary about Rick Rubin, and I find that fascinating. There's so much that I, like, now I want to watch music documentaries. I'm on a kick now, and since I don't have any football to watch tonight, maybe I'll find another music documentary to watch. But watch that one.

I would suggest that Ozzy documentary. I was called No Escape from Now. So I would check that one out. It was really good.