Sharon threat saw Ozzy clean up his act

As Ozzy Osbourne recently said: “It’s good to be a living legend it’s better than being a dead one.”

But even he must have been surprised when he reached his 65th birthday this month after a lifetime of excess.

Having admitted earlier this year to a drink and drugs relapse during the previous 18 months, the Brummie singer has once again cleaned up his act after wife Sharon was rumoured to have threatened to leave him.

Despite all those trials and tribulations, it didn’t seem to affect the recording of a new Black Sabbath album, which saw Ozzy reunited with his old band mates Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler.

The album, 13, gave the group their first No 1 in 43 years a new UK record for the longest gap between chart-topping albums.

Their last and only previous UK No 1 album was Paranoid in 1970.

Their live shows have also gone down a storm on their world tour and new live DVD, Gathered In Their Masses, shows them on stage for two nights in Melbourne, Australia.

Now the heavy metal pioneers, who have sold 70 million records, are coming to the Hydro in Glasgow tomorrow evening for their first Scottish gig in decades.

And Ozzy hasn’t ruled out recording another album with Sabbath, who formed in 1969.

“I’m open for anything. It’s been a lot of fun doing it with Black Sabbath, and I’m not sorry at all for getting back together.”