{"id":482400,"date":"2019-02-19T07:09:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T14:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=796230"},"modified":"2019-02-19T07:09:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T14:09:48","slug":"ozzy-osbourne-cancels-australia-new-zealand-japan-tour-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/ozzy-osbourne-cancels-australia-new-zealand-japan-tour-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzy Osbourne Cancels Australia, New Zealand, Japan Tour Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/9708981ar.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ozzy-osbourne\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ozzy-osbourne\" data-tag=\"ozzy-osbourne\">Ozzy Osbourne<\/a> has canceled his upcoming shows in Australia, New Zealand and Japan, which were originally scheduled as part of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/ozzy-osbourne-talks-final-tour-im-not-retiring-205719\/\">No More Tours 2<\/a> tour. The news follows his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ozzy-osbourne-postpones-european-leg-of-tour-due-to-illness-786280\/\">postponement of the UK and European leg<\/a> of the ongoing tour per doctors\u2019 orders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOzzy recently developed pneumonia and has spent some time in hospital. Thankfully he is now through the worst part,\u201d Sharon Osbourne said in a statement. \u201cHis doctors have advised that he stay at home to recuperate for a full six weeks with no travel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The five dates canceled in Australia, New Zealand and Japan were to take place in March. He is expected to reschedule his postponed UK and European dates, which came following a diagnosis of an upper-respiratory infection, ostensibly in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the singer was forced to postpone a handful of shows in the U.S. after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/ozzy-osbourne-staph-infection-745005\/\">contracting a staph infection<\/a>. Those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ozzy-osbourne-cancels-remainder-of-north-american-tour-736449\/\">concerts have been rescheduled<\/a> to take place in July.<\/p>\n<p>In the run-up to the tour kick-off, Osbourne told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/ozzy-osbourne-talks-final-tour-black-sabbath-randy-rhoads-733475\/\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> that though the tour\u2019s name may suggest otherwise, he is not retiring. Instead, he plans to do short runs and one-off concerts as he sees fit. \u201cI\u2019m no good at anything else,\u201d he said. \u201cI literally can\u2019t do anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ozzy-osbourne-cancels-australia-new-zealand-japan-tour-dates-pneumonia-796230\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ozzy Osbourne has canceled his upcoming shows in Australia, New Zealand and Japan, which were originally scheduled as part of his No More Tours 2 tour. The news follows his postponement of the UK and European leg of the ongoing tour per doctors\u2019 orders. \u201cOzzy recently developed pneumonia and has spent some time in hospital. 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