Ozzy Osbourne, the singular metallic legend whose Black Sabbath nearly invented heavy metallic and in later years turned a actuality TV pioneer, died on Tuesday on the age of 76.
Osbourne’s household confirmed his demise in a press release. “It’s with extra disappointment than mere phrases can convey that we’ve got to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has handed away this morning,” they stated. “He was along with his household and surrounded by love. We ask everybody to respect our household privateness presently.”
An actual explanation for demise was not given, although Osbourne has battled an array of well being points over the previous a number of years, together with Parkinson’s illness and accidents he sustained from a late-night tumble in 2019.
The singer had an electrifying and unpredictable onstage presence and a dry humorousness that endeared him to hordes of adoring followers. His excitable power helped remodel the anthems he sang — “Iron Man,” “Paranoid,” and “Loopy Practice” — from radio hits into sports-stadium staples. As a member of Black Sabbath, he helped draft the blueprints for heavy metallic, however in dialog, he was all the time humble about his contributions to music. He knew his limitations and was open about his addictions, however he all the time tried to higher himself. He was an underdog everybody would need to rally behind.
As Black Sabbath’s doomsayer-in-chief, Osbourne may summon a real sense of terror in his keening cries in a manner that heightened the band’s muscular dirges. When he bellowed, “What is that this that stands earlier than me, determine in black which factors at me?” within the track “Black Sabbath,” it was a efficiency worthy of a horror flick. He sang “Iron Man,” a few scorned golem searching for revenge, with plausible wrath. And when he screeched, “Goals flip to nightmares, Heaven turns to Hell,” in “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath,” it was with a demonic fury not even Milton may have summoned. He made sense of his bandmates’ heavy swagger and introduced their supernatural racket again right down to earth in a manner that has resonated with thousands and thousands for many years.
Though teams had been testing the boundaries of exhausting rock for a couple of years by the point Black Sabbath arrived, the band purified their aggression right into a forceful, unrelenting sound that will outline a brand new model of rock. “On any given day, the heavy metallic style may as properly be subtitled ‘Music spinoff of Black Sabbath,’” Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich said, when inducting Black Sabbath into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame in 2006. Osbourne’s voice and performances have been essential substances to the group’s modus operandi. Queen guitarist Brian Could once described Osbourne as “a willowy singer wailing in a manner that made the children’ mother and father despair” — and that’s precisely what the children wished within the music.
As a solo artist, Osbourne zeroed in on the extra gothic features of Sabbath’s method and tweaked the tempos so followers may graduate from head nodding to headbanging. However his artwork nonetheless reveled in darkness — mutually assured destruction (“Loopy Practice”), Hammer Horror vignettes (“Bark on the Moon”), false prophets (“Miracle Man”). The massive distinction was that, as bandleader, Osbourne found a brand new facet of himself — an entertainer whose sharp wit and lust for partying was simply as outsized as his music — and let it overcome him. Aided by his spouse and supervisor, Sharon, and a succession of six-string virtuosi — Randy Rhoads, Jake E. Lee, Zakk Wylde — he reinvented himself as a performer who may each preside over a séance and a kegger with equal panache. His legend grew.
Between his solo music and recordings with Black Sabbath, Osbourne was essentially the most ubiquitous artist on Rolling Stone’s ranking of the Greatest Metal Albums of All Time; Sabbath’s Paranoid, claimed the record’s prime spot. He received 4 Grammys, together with a Lifetime Achievement nod with Black Sabbath, and practically all of his albums have been licensed gold or platinum.
By the late Nineties, Osbourne was metallic’s ringmaster, lending his identify to the touring Ozzfest and headlining the annual touring pageant both as a solo artist or with Sabbath. When it appeared like fashionable tradition wished to spurn heavy artists, he had created a haven for them to achieve their viewers straight at a one-stop occasion. He was as soon as a misfit and, in flip, supplied a gathering spot for misfits to seek out slot in.
However he ultimately charmed the mainstream just by being himself, a loving dad who couldn’t work out his TV’s distant (like many dads throughout the nation) on The Osbournes. The present even received an Emmy. The place he was as soon as a jaw-dropping rock savage with an urge for food for small, winged animals within the drunken Eighties, he was now America’s sweetheart. He was a rock & roll survivor who lived lengthy sufficient to make it by means of the opposite facet.
“My life has simply been unbelievable,” Osbourne as soon as advised Rolling Stone. “You couldn’t write my story; you couldn’t invent me.”
John Michael Osbourne, born in Birmingham, England on December third, 1948, was the fourth of six siblings in a working-class household. Their father, John Thomas “Jack” Osbourne, was a toolmaker who labored nights at an electronics manufacturing facility. When Jack would come residence within the morning, Ozzy’s mom, Lillian, would depart for her manufacturing facility job for an organization that labored within the motor and aerospace industries. Home violence was a typical scene within the Osbourne family, and its results weighed on Ozzy later in life.
By Ozzy’s estimate, the Osbournes lived proper on the poverty line, by some means making ends meet week after week. The household didn’t attend church, although Ozzy recalled in his autobiography, I Am Ozzy, that he went to Sunday college “‘coz there was fuck-all else to do, and so they gave you free tea and biscuits,” but faith was current in his later artwork, as he wore a cross and sang lyrics that warned of hell — presumably the type of perdition he had climbed out of in his youth. Craters left by bombs in World Battle II have been frequent play websites for Ozzy when he was younger.
Affected by dyslexia and attention-deficit dysfunction, Osbourne struggled in class. He was a straightforward goal on the playground and later recalled getting clobbered by future Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi. “I all the time felt crappy and intimidated by everybody,” Osbourne mirrored in Esquire. “So my complete factor was to behave loopy and make individuals giggle so that they wouldn’t leap on me.” Melancholy overtook him a number of occasions as a schoolkid, and he first tried suicide at age 14, “simply to see what it might really feel like.”
Nevertheless it was additionally that 12 months that the heavens opened up for Osbourne the second he first heard the Beatles’ “She Loves You” for the primary time. “It was a divine expertise,” he advised Esquire. “The planets modified.” However apart from a brand new infatuation and a brand new calling at the back of his thoughts, not a lot else in his world shifted for the higher. He dropped out of college at 15 and entered the workforce — making an attempt building, studying toolmaking, tuning automobile horns, slaughtering cattle — however nothing caught and he turned to crime by age 17 and spent two months in jail for housebreaking.
After Osbourne did his time, his father took pity and bought a microphone, amplifier, and audio system, costing a princely £250, for him. The aspirant singer marketed his wares at an area music store with a doubtful advert — “OZZY ZIG NEEDS GIG – Skilled entrance man owns personal PA system” — and attracted the curiosity of a younger guitarist named Terence “Geezer” Butler, who performed in an acid-rock band, much like the teams Artwork and Tomorrow, referred to as Uncommon Breed. After that group disintegrated, the pair linked up with the guitarist and drummer of one other band, Mythology — Iommi and Invoice Ward — in late 1968 and fashioned a sextet referred to as the Polka Tulk Blues Band, named after the model of talcum powder Osbourne’s mom used. After jettisoning two members, the band rechristened itself Earth and commenced enjoying blues, jazz, and covers of songs like “Knock on Wooden” and “Blue Suede Footwear.” The band’s supervisor, Jim Simpson, as soon as recalled that the band’s first-ever recording, by no means launched, included a rendition of Depend Basie’s “Evenin’” partially as a result of Osbourne was so enamored with singer Jimmy Speeding.
At one band rehearsal, Butler, who had switched to bass, advised his bandmates a few nightmare he had had through which he felt a sinister presence subsequent to him. The story impressed Osbourne to sing, “What is that this that stands earlier than me?” over the quiet a part of a brand new track they have been engaged on with crushing energy chords. He summoned the phrases in a manner that made Butler’s dread cling to the air. They stayed with that feeling and completed the tune, which they dubbed “Black Sabbath,” taking the title from a 1963 horror movie. The track’s heavy new course impressed extra originals, customized written to scare audiences in a fashion much like fright flicks, and so they ditched the Earth moniker in favor of Black Sabbath.
The quartet had discovered its new sound, however Osbourne had bother becoming in. “He was insecure,” Simpson advised Rolling Stone of Osbourne’s childhood, “and he wanted an arm round his shoulders and to be comfy — ‘It’ll be all proper, don’t fear’ — as a result of he was apprehensive round his performances. He was very delicate, very curious. However he gave all the things onstage. He left nothing behind.” Osbourne and his bandmates discovered their mojo by means of heavy gigging, enjoying as much as seven occasions a day for months on finish in Switzerland and Germany. When engaged on originals, Osbourne would typically improvise a melody and, if no phrases got here to him, Butler would compose the lyrics. “The superb factor about Oz was he may take Geezer’s lyrics and spit them out ‘Ozzy,’” Ward as soon as stated.
It was additionally across the time of those residencies the place Osbourne started taking medicine commonly, smoking hash and taking acid. One presumably tall story concerning the band was that he and Ward each took LSD day by day for 2 years. Inside a couple of years, cocaine would cut up the band broad open, however on the time, the slow-churning riffs of “Battle Pigs,” “The Wizard,” and “Behind the Wall of Sleep” established the group’s stoner-metal aesthetic.
The band recorded its self-titled debut on the tail finish of 1969 in a two-day dash on a shoestring price range of £600. As a result of tight turnaround, the musicians merely performed their pub set, full with prolonged guitar solos. Regardless of the push, Osbourne commanded chilling performances on “Black Sabbath,” “N.I.B.,” and “Warning,” amongst different tracks, and the band’s uncooked, lumbering riffs solid the mould for heavy metallic. Regardless of a scarcity of radio play, the LP shot to Quantity Eight on the U.Ok. chart.
About half a 12 months later, Black Sabbath reconvened on the similar studio to chop their second LP, which they hoped to name Battle Pigs, and recorded one other set of immediate classics: “Iron Man,” “Fairies Put on Boots,” “Paranoid.” The immediacy of the final observe, coupled with devilish lyrics like “Make a joke and I’ll sigh, and you’ll giggle, and I’ll cry,” made it the album’s standout, and the group’s report label retitled the album Paranoid. The album shot to Quantity One in England, and “Paranoid,” a Quantity 4 hit single, earned the band a slot on Prime of the Pops.
The band’s U.S. report label delayed the releases of Black Sabbath and Paranoid, however each turned business hits, and the RIAA has licensed Paranoid four-times platinum. Followers liked them, however critics on the time hated them. Lester Bangs described Black Sabbath in Rolling Stone as “identical to Cream! However worse,” and Nick Tosches didn’t hassle even listening to Paranoid for his Rolling Stone review, referring to the singer as “Kip Treavor,” a mangled invocation of Kip Trevor, frontman for a Satanism-obsessed band referred to as Black Widow. However Black Sabbath pressed ahead undeterred. Osbourne examined his vocal limits on the band’s third album, 1971’s Grasp of Actuality, screeching on “Lord of This World,” crooning on “Solitude,” and howling on the ode to marijuana, “Candy Leaf,” and nuclear warning, “Kids of the Grave.”
Round this time, Osbourne married a girl he’d fallen for at first sight, Thelma Riley, when he noticed her working the cloakroom of a pub. “They’re loopy mad in love,” Ward advised Rolling Stone of the Osbournes’ relationship in Rolling Stone’s first Sabbath profile. “He actually can’t stand being away from her.” The couple survived a turbulent decade for Ozzy, who later regarded again on the connection with remorse after it fell aside. “I used to be a raving drug addict and an alcoholic and about as a lot good as an ashtray on a motorcycle,” he advised Esquire. “My father was abusive to my mum, and I’d slap my first spouse round as a result of I assumed that’s what males need to do.” The couple had two kids, Jessica and Louis, and Ozzy adopted Thelma’s son from a earlier relationship, Elliot. Osbourne later claimed to have a strained relationship with the youngsters from his first marriage.
Black Sabbath decamped to Los Angeles to report 1972’s Vol. 4 and nursed fierce cocaine addictions whereas there. Osbourne crystalized his love for the drug with a passionate efficiency on the album’s “Snowblind,” however nonetheless managed to summon a extra tender facet on the plaintive “Adjustments.” He returned to banshee screaming on the title minimize for 1973’s Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Osbourne additionally stretched his wings past merely singing, keying the musical line to the album’s jaunty prog rocker “Who Are You?” on a synthesizer. Not have been Black Sabbath enjoying plodding, primitive heavy rockers; there was a brand new sophistication within the band’s music and Osbourne’s performances. After parting methods acrimoniously with then-manager Patrick Meehan, the group discovered new vitriol on 1975’s Sabotage, with Osbourne screeching in regards to the betrayal on “The Writ” and existential ache on “Symptom of the Universe.” It was an inventive rebirth, however quickly all the things started to unravel.
Osbourne give up Black Sabbath in 1978, after touring in assist of the earlier 12 months’s lackluster Technical Ecstasy. His drug abuse and consuming had gotten uncontrolled to the purpose that he checked himself into an asylum to scrub up and was taking inventory of his life. He had additionally began contemplating life after Sabbath, as he’d already begun carrying a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrases “Blizzard of Oz,” an epithet he as soon as described as his “coke identify” that he’d hoped to name a solo band. Extra urgent was the truth that Osbourne’s father had simply died of most cancers, and he wanted time to course of the loss. The band recruited Savoy Brown and Fleetwood Mac vocalist Dave Walker for a few weeks however they finally coaxed Osbourne again for an additional album. Though they titled the LP By no means Say Die! the band wouldn’t final one other 12 months. Osbourne’s bandmates felt his substance abuse had stymied his inventive contributions to the band and dismissed him on April twenty seventh, 1979.
“Firing me for being fucked up was hypocritical bullshit,” Osbourne wrote in I Am Ozzy. “We have been all fucked up. If you happen to’re stoned and I’m stoned, and also you’re telling me that I’m fired as a result of I’m stoned, how can that fucking be? As a result of I’m barely extra stoned than you’re?”
Osbourne was 30 years previous, jilted, and dejected. He resolved to spend what cash he had left on a resort room and booze so he may drink himself into oblivion. Then Sharon Arden, the daughter of Sabbath’s supervisor on the time, Don Arden, took pity on him and inspired him to go solo. Inside a 12 months, he linked up with the flashy ex–Quiet Riot guitarist Randy Rhoads, Rainbow bassist Bob Daisley, and Uriah Heep drummer Lee Kerslake, and the band recorded Osbourne’s solo debut, 1980’s Blizzard of Ozz.
The music was faster-paced and more durable hitting than Black Sabbath’s, festooned with Rhoads’ neo-classical filigrees, and it slot in completely with the brand new era of exhausting rock bands impressed by Van Halen. Osbourne, too, sounded revitalized, singing passionately in regards to the horrors of the Chilly Battle on “Loopy Practice,” occult mysticism on “Mr. Crowley,” and the non-public carnage of alcoholism on “Suicide Answer.” He would inform his bandmates how excited he felt to be beginning over and proving himself once more to skeptical audiences. The exhausting work paid off, too. The album was a Prime 10 hit within the U.Ok., and made it as much as Quantity 21 within the U.S. The RIAA has since licensed it five-times platinum.
Regardless of feeling rejuvenated, Osbourne continued to abuse alcohol and medicines to the purpose that his wild-man antics practically overshadowed his artwork. In 1981, the 12 months he separated from his spouse Thelma, he shocked an L.A. convention room stuffed with Columbia Data execs when he pulled a dove out of his pocket and bit its head off. A 12 months later, whereas touring in assist of his stellar second solo record, Diary of a Madman, he equally decapitated a dead bat {that a} fan had thrown onstage, pondering it was a toy. Medical doctors handled him with rabies photographs. A month later, San Antonio police arrested Osbourne ostensibly for urinating on the Alamo; Arden had hidden his garments from him so he wouldn’t exit drunk, and he placed on certainly one of her attire and went out anyway, unaware of the place he was relieving himself.
Spurred on by media sensationalism, the tour continued till March nineteenth, 1982, when Rhoads died in a freak accident. On a Florida off-date, the guitarist, who was afraid to fly, agreed to get in a personal airplane with the tour bus driver, who was additionally a pilot. The airplane tried to buzz the bus, clipped the wing, and spun uncontrolled. It crashed right into a home and immediately killed Rhoads, make-up artist Rachel Youngblood, and the bus driver. Osbourne was in shock.
“If it wasn’t for Sharon, I’d nonetheless be in that fucking subject, trying on the home because it was burning, he remembered in Rolling Stone years later. “It was a nasty scene, man. She stated, ‘We’re not stopping now.’”
The tour resumed on April 1st with former Gillan guitarist Bernie Tormé accompanying Osbourne for per week and a half of dates earlier than Evening Ranger guitarist Brad Gillis stepped in to complete out the tour. Initially, Osbourne had deliberate on releasing a dwell album to complete his contract with supervisor Don Arden however modified his thoughts after Rhoads’ demise. As a substitute, he recorded a double-LP of Sabbath songs, dubbed Converse of the Satan, with the Gillis lineup to compete along with his former band’s Stay Evil launch, which featured Osbourne’s substitute, Ronnie James Dio. It bought higher than Sabbath’s. In 1987, Osbourne launched a surprising dwell album that featured Rhoads, Tribute, which he co-billed to the guitarist.
Within the midst of turmoil, Osbourne married Sharon Arden on July 4th, 1982. Their first daughter, Aimee, was born in 1983, a second, Kelly, was born the next 12 months, and son Jack arrived in ’85. Sharon continued to handle Osbourne’s profession till his demise. The household saved residences in England and Los Angeles.
Osbourne launched his third solo LP, Bark on the Moon, in 1983, and it featured one other younger, showy guitarist, Jake E. Lee, who had beforehand performed with Ratt and Dio, and a harder-edged sound. Apart from a one-off Black Sabbath reunion for Stay Help in 1985, Osbourne stayed the course all through the remainder of the Eighties, placing out one hit album after one other, ultimately recruiting one other hotshot guitarist, Zakk Wylde, in 1987. Osbourne’s four-times platinum 1991 album, No Extra Tears, was his greatest hit since Blizzard of Ozz, due to robust singles like “Mama, I’m Coming Dwelling,” “Street to Nowhere,” and the Grammy-winning “I Don’t Wish to Change the World” — all set record staples till his demise.
Nonetheless, controversy stalked Osbourne. In 1985 the mother and father of a teen who died by suicide sued Osbourne and his report label, alleging the track “Suicide Answer” had satisfied him to do it. The case was thrown out of courtroom. Earlier than the last decade was up, the mother and father of two different teenagers tried to file comparable fits, however Osbourne prevailed legally. “If I used to be going to place some backward message in a report, I’d put in one thing like, ‘That is the Satan! Purchase six extra copies of this report,’” Osbourne joked in Spin in 1986, earlier than including, “‘600 and sixty-six extra!’”
The headlines made him a demon to evangelicals. He later appeared within the film Trick or Deal with, portraying a preacher sarcastically as a dig on the non secular leaders who had railed in opposition to him. A 12 months later, he paid a number of thousand {dollars} in fines after his followers trashed the Meadowlands Enviornment in 1986. He additionally entered the Betty Ford Clinic that 12 months in an try to scrub up his addictions however finally failed.
In 1989, shortly after he’d performed a triumphant live performance with Sabbath’s Geezer Butler enjoying bass in his solo band for the Moscow Music Peace Competition, he woke someday in a jail cell. A policeman then charged him with the tried homicide of his spouse. In a blackout state, Osbourne had lunged at Sharon and tried to strangle her. “We’ve decided, and also you’ve received to die,” he advised her. She escaped his grip and, after he hung out in jail, she ultimately dropped the fees. When a reporter requested her how close he came to killing her years later, Sharon stated, “Fairly rattling shut.”
Osbourne received his consuming below management for a couple of years, and Sharon spent the Nineties elevating his profile. After a well-publicized retirement tour (dubbed No Extra Excursions), triggered after Osbourne developed a tremor that docs warned might be M.S., and a short Sabbath reunion on the remaining present, he waited 4 years earlier than venturing again on the street for his Retirement Sucks tour. By then, he’d discovered remedy that helped his situation, which was not M.S. however a illness in the identical household as Parkinson’s, and he was decided to maintain going.
After the alternative-rock fest Lollapalooza rejected Osbourne as a performer, Sharon assembled the primary Ozzfest lineup in 1996 with Slayer, Danzig, and Neurosis, amongst others, supporting Ozzy. Black Sabbath reunited for Ozzfest ’97, and a dwell recording of “Iron Man” from their Reunion report earned them a Grammy.
Over time, Osbourne’s excursions had launched metallic followers to Metallica, Mötley Crüe, Korn, and a number of other different heavy hitters, so when Ozzfest turned a global, annual touring occasion, it turned essentially the most desired touring gig for heavy bands. Towards the late Nineties, the pageant rode a crest of recognition with the burgeoning nu-metal scene, whose bands handled Osbourne like a deity.
Then got here The Osbournes, and Ozzy formally turned the foul-mouthed Prince of Bleeping Darkness. The truth TV present offered Ozzy, Sharon, Kelly, and Jack as a lovingly dysfunctional household (Aimee opted out of the present), and it turned a scores blockbuster. Abruptly, the softer facet of Ozzy Osbourne — depicted as a sailor-cursing, befuddled dad — made him the darling of Midwestern mothers. “I’m not a musician,” he as soon as stated. “I’m a ham.” However his hamminess made him a famous person, and the present turned the paradigm for later packages like Conserving Up With the Kardashians.
Abruptly, Ozzy Osbourne had a desk on the 2002 White House Correspondents’ Dinner (“Ozzy, Mother loves your stuff,” President George W. Bush joked) and performing at the Queen’s Golden Jubilee. Osbourne additionally acquired a star on Hollywood’s Stroll of Fame in 2002.
Osbourne confronted extra controversy in 2002 when he allowed his up to date band members, bassist Robert Trujillo and drummer Mike Bordin, to interchange the rhythm tracks on Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman as a workaround for a dispute over royalties with the unique musicians; he restored the originals in 2011. And in 2004, he narrowly survived a quad-bike wreck despatched him into the ICU with a number of damaged bones. However inside a 12 months, he had come out with a brand new field set, Prince of Darkness, and was again on the street.
Osbourne spent his later life touring and recording solo and with Black Sabbath. The latter band launched 13, its first LP with Ozzy behind the mic since By no means Say Die! in 2013, and it turned a Quantity One album on either side of the Atlantic. Shortly after the album was successful, Osbourne cleaned up his act for good and advised reporters he maintained sobriety till his demise.
The group launched into a farewell tour that resulted in 2017, after which Osbourne introduced his personal remaining world tour (No Extra Excursions 2) however he didn’t get far into it earlier than it began to collapse. First, a staph an infection compelled him to cancel a number of dates after which a late-night tumble despatched him right into a hospital for surgical procedure that compelled him to be bedridden for months. He revealed a analysis of Parkinson’s illness in 2020 and resolved to hold on. That 12 months, he launched a solo album, Extraordinary Man, that discovered him enjoying alongside a formidable visitor record — Elton John, Submit Malone, Slash — however a mixture of his accidents and the coronavirus pandemic saved him off the street. As of 2021, he was engaged on a brand new album with producer Andrew Watt that will characteristic an analogous visitor record.
On July 5, 2025, Osbourne gave his remaining performances each as a solo artist and with the unique members of Black Sabbath at Villa Park in his hometown of Birmingham, England. For weeks previous to the Again to the Starting profit live performance, the town celebrated its most well-known sons’ homecoming and the lauded sold-out live performance drew followers from all over the world to witness the heavy metallic royalty take their remaining bow.
Their “opening acts” — an all-star crew that included Metallica, Weapons N’ Roses, Slayer, Pantera, Alice in Chains, and extra — paid tribute with Sabbath covers. Osbourne carried out “I Don’t Know,” “Mr. Crowley,” “Suicide Answer,” “Mama, I’m Coming Dwelling,” and “Loopy Practice.” Following his solo set, he was joined by his fellow unique Black Sabbath members — guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler, and drummer Invoice Ward and collectively they carried out “Battle Pigs,” “N.I.B.,” “Iron Man,” and “Paranoid.”
Exterior of music, Osbourne had cameos in a number of movies and TV reveals together with The Jerky Boys (1995), Personal Components (1997), South Park (1998), Little Nicky (2000), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), Ghostbusters (2016), and The Conners (2020), amongst a number of others. In 2009, Fox tried an Osbournes reboot, dubbed Osbournes Reloaded, however it didn’t catch on. Osbourne later co-starred in a actuality present along with his son, Ozzy & Jack’s World Detour, through which the 2 road-tripped round the US, and The Osbournes Wish to Imagine, through which he, Sharon, and Jack weighed in on found-footage paranormal movies.
In 2010, he launched I Am Ozzy and adopted the guide up the subsequent 12 months with Belief Me, I’m Dr. Ozzy, a compendium of his Rolling Stone recommendation column. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame in 2006 as a member of Black Sabbath and acquired a Lifetime Achievement Award with the band from the Grammys in 2019. He was nominated for eight different Grammys, each as a solo artist and with Black Sabbath, and received three of them.
However awards by no means meant as a lot to him as applause from an viewers. Up till his demise, Osbourne’s purpose was to ascend a stage one final time and thrill his followers. When the topic of retirement got here up in a 2020 Rolling Stone interview, Osbourne huffed. “Retire from what?” he stated. “It’s not a job. How are you going to retire from a rock band? It’s like saying, ‘Don’t plug in your amp.’ I don’t know the rest. I’ll retire after they put the fucking nail within the lid.”
From Rolling Stone US.