Ozzy Osbourne, 71, lets Jason Momoa take the mic in new music video… after rocker cancels an appearance at his album release party
He’s enjoying the limelight thanks to his first solo album release in ten years, and is doing his best to keep up with it all in spite of some ongoing health trouble.
And while legendary rocker Ozzy Osbourne is continuing to deal with symptom’s of Parkinson’s Disease, it didn’t stop the Black Sabbath frontman from having a little fun with a teaser clip for his upcoming music video for the new track Scary Little Green Men.
In the clip, guitar strumming is heard along with the cheering of an expectant audience, as a figure cloaked in black leather ambles down a dimly lit hallway.
Though many expected it to be the Prince Of Darkness himself, they were in for quite the surprise.
The prince himself: While legendary rocker Ozzy Osbourne is continuing to deal with symptom’s of Parkinson’s Disease, it didn’t stop him from having a little fun with a teaser clip for his new album dropped Friday; seen here at Amoeba Music in Hollywood on Friday
The hooded figure had all of Ozzy’s signature additions – wearing rings on his fingers, walking with a cane, and letting a grand train trail behind him.
As the music builds, he approaches the microphone, and the man finally removes his hood to reveal not Ozzy, but Aquaman star Jason Momoa doing his best rendition OF the Crazy Train rocker.
Momoa lip syncs to Osbourne’s new track and makes love to the camera in crash zooms, displaying his copious rings and black manicure.
Just before the end of the snippet, Momoa makes as it he’s about to bite the head off a bat, just as Ozzy famously did 40 years ago.
That’s not Ozzy: In the snippet, a cloaked and hooded figure thought to be Osbourne turns out to be none other than Jason Momoa
The buildup: At the opening, guitar strumming is heard along with the cheering of an expectant audience, as a figure cloaked in black leather ambles down a dimly lit hallway
Rock on, Aquaman: Momoa lip syncs to Osbourne’s new track and makes love to the camera in crash zooms, displaying his copious rings and black manicure
And while Osbourne attended his first in-store record signing in ten years at the historic Amoeba Music store in Los Angeles, California on Friday, and a listening party with his wife Sharon and daughter Kelly the evening before that, the septuagenarian crooner has had to slow down and even cancel some appearances as he continues to manage his health.
Chief among those appearances was a separate appearance at KLOS on Friday for the launch of Ordinary Man.
The Osbournes star has been very candid and vocal about his health woes, revealing that he’s ‘in unbelievable pain 24/7.’
Wild: Just before the end of the snippet, Momoa makes as it he’s about to bite the head off a bat, just as Ozzy famously did 40 years ago
Giving his John Hancock: While Osbourne attended a record signing at the historic Amoeba Music store in Los Angeles, on Friday, the septuagenarian crooner has had to slow down and even cancel some appearances as he continues to manage his health
Walking with difficulty: Chief among those appearances was a slated separate appearance at KLOS on Friday for the launch of Ordinary Man; seen here making his way into Amoeba
By his side: A beautifully natural-haired Sharon accompanied Ozzy to Amoeba Music for his first in-store record signing in ten years on Friday
It has even forced Ozzy to entirely cancel the North American leg of his highly anticipated No More Tours II in support of the new album.
Ordinary Man is Ozzy’s twelfth solo studio album, coming seven years after his last album with Black Sabbath, 2013’s 13, and a full decade after his last solo effort Scream.
The record has received mostly positive reviews, with a current score of 79 on meta-review site Metacritic.
Thursday with the Osbourne girls: Ozzy was also able to attend a listening party for the album with his wife and daughter Kelly on Thursday evening