‘Last Rites,’ Ozzy Osbourne

The Prince of Darkness completed his final memoirs, Last Rites, in July between his monumental farewell blowout bash, Back to the Beginning, and his shocking death less than three weeks later. Throughout the book, Osbourne recounts the various health setbacks that forced him off the road in 2018, as well as reflections on his time in Black Sabbath and early years as a solo artist, with his trademark black humor and inimitable bleepable vocabulary. The closing chapter is the best and most emotional, as the artist, who always felt like an underdog, comes to terms with his legacy and the impact he had on his fans and music in the days after singing “Paranoid” for a final time. Equally heart-wrenching and hilarious, Last Rites is the last word on all things Ozzy Osbourne. —Kory Grow