Ozzy Osbourne, the singular steel legend whose Black Sabbath just about invented heavy steel 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 unhappiness than mere phrases can convey that now we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has handed away this morning,” they stated. “He was together with his household and surrounded by love. We ask everybody to respect our household privateness presently.”
An actual reason behind 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 rework 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 steel, however in dialog, he was at all times humble about his contributions to music. He knew his limitations and was open about his addictions, however he at all times 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 method 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 music “Black Sabbath,” it was a efficiency worthy of a horror flick. He sang “Iron Man,” a few scorned golem in search of 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 method that has resonated with thousands and thousands for many years.
Though teams had been testing the bounds of exhausting rock for a number 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 fashion of rock. “On any given day, the heavy steel style would possibly as effectively 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 components to the group’s modus operandi. Queen guitarist Brian Could once described Osbourne as “a willowy singer wailing in a method that made the youngsters’ mother and father despair” — and that’s precisely what the youngsters wished within the music.
As a solo artist, Osbourne zeroed in on the extra gothic facets of Sabbath’s strategy 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 high 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 steel’s ringmaster, lending his title to the touring Ozzfest and headlining the annual touring competition both as a solo artist or with Sabbath. When it appeared like standard tradition wished to spurn heavy artists, he had created a haven for them to succeed in their viewers instantly at a one-stop occasion. He was as soon as a misfit and, in flip, supplied a gathering spot for misfits to search out slot in.
However he finally charmed the mainstream just by being himself, a loving dad who couldn’t determine 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 informed 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 dwelling within the morning, Ozzy’s mom, Lillian, would go away 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, in some way 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, they usually 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 sort of perdition he had climbed out of in his youth. Craters left by bombs in World Warfare II have been frequent play websites for Ozzy when he was younger.
Affected by dyslexia and attention-deficit dysfunction, Osbourne struggled at school. He was a simple goal on the playground and later recalled getting clobbered by future Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi. “I at all times felt crappy and intimidated by everybody,” Osbourne mirrored in Esquire. “So my entire factor was to behave loopy and make folks giggle in order that they wouldn’t bounce on me.” Melancholy overtook him a number of instances as a schoolkid, and he first tried suicide at age 14, “simply to see what it will really feel like.”
Nevertheless it was additionally that yr 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 informed Esquire. “The planets modified.” However aside from a brand new infatuation and a brand new calling behind his thoughts, not a lot else in his world shifted for the higher. He dropped out of faculty at 15 and entered the workforce — trying development, studying toolmaking, tuning automotive 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 a neighborhood 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, known 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 shaped a sextet known 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 taking part in 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 Dashing.
At one band rehearsal, Butler, who had switched to bass, informed his bandmates a few nightmare he had had during 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 music they have been engaged on with crushing energy chords. He summoned the phrases in a method 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 music’s heavy new route impressed extra originals, customized written to scare audiences in a fashion much like fright flicks, they usually 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 informed Rolling Stone of Osbourne’s early life, “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 anxious round his performances. He was very delicate, very curious. However he gave all the pieces onstage. He left nothing behind.” Osbourne and his bandmates discovered their mojo by means of heavy gigging, taking part in as much as seven instances 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 relating to the band was that he and Ward each took LSD on daily basis for 2 years. Inside a number of years, cocaine would cut up the band large open, however on the time, the slow-churning riffs of “Warfare 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 funds of £600. Because of the tight turnaround, the musicians merely performed their pub set, full with prolonged guitar solos. Regardless of the frenzy, 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 steel. Regardless of an absence of radio play, the LP shot to Quantity Eight on the U.Ok. chart.
About half a yr later, Black Sabbath reconvened on the similar studio to chop their second LP, which they hoped to name Warfare Pigs, and recorded one other set of immediate classics: “Iron Man,” “Fairies Put on Boots,” “Paranoid.” The immediacy of the final monitor, 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 beloved them, however critics on the time hated them. Lester Bangs described Black Sabbath in Rolling Stone as “similar 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 known 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, “Youngsters of the Grave.”
Round this time, Osbourne married a lady 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 informed 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 bike,” he informed Esquire. “My father was abusive to my mum, and I might slap my first spouse round as a result of I believed 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 kids 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 “Modifications.” He returned to banshee screaming on the title reduce 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. Now not have been Black Sabbath taking part in 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 concerning the betrayal on “The Writ” and existential ache on “Symptom of the Universe.” It was an inventive rebirth, however quickly all the pieces started to unravel.
Osbourne give up Black Sabbath in 1978, after touring in help of the earlier yr’s lackluster Technical Ecstasy. His drug abuse and ingesting had gotten uncontrolled to the purpose that he checked himself into an asylum to wash up and was taking inventory of his life. He had additionally began contemplating life after Sabbath, as he’d already begun sporting a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrases “Blizzard of Oz,” an epithet he as soon as described as his “coke title” 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 yr. 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. In case you’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 outdated, 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 yr, 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 concerning the horrors of the Chilly Warfare 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 yr he separated from his spouse Thelma, he shocked an L.A. convention room stuffed with Columbia Information execs when he pulled a dove out of his pocket and bit its head off. A yr later, whereas touring in help 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. Docs handled him with rabies pictures. 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 clothes 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 non-public 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 discipline, wanting 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 every 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 an alternative, he recorded a double-LP of Sabbath songs, dubbed Communicate of the Satan, with the Gillis lineup to compete together with his former band’s Dwell Evil launch, which featured Osbourne’s alternative, Ronnie James Dio. It offered 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 yr, and son Jack arrived in ’85. Sharon continued to handle Osbourne’s profession till his demise. The household stored 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. Aside from a one-off Black Sabbath reunion for Dwell Help in 1985, Osbourne stayed the course all through the remainder of the Eighties, placing out one hit album after one other, finally 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 Need 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 music “Suicide Answer” had satisfied him to do it. The case was thrown out of court docket. Earlier than the last decade was up, the mother and father of two different teenagers tried to file related 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 mockingly as a dig on the spiritual leaders who had railed in opposition to him. A yr later, he paid a number of thousand {dollars} in fines after his followers trashed the Meadowlands Area in 1986. He additionally entered the Betty Ford Clinic that yr in an try to wash up his addictions however finally failed.
In 1989, shortly after he’d performed a triumphant live performance with Sabbath’s Geezer Butler taking part in bass in his solo band for the Moscow Music Peace Pageant, 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 acquired to die,” he informed her. She escaped his grip and, after he frolicked in jail, she finally dropped the costs. When a reporter requested her how close he came to killing her years later, Sharon stated, “Fairly rattling shut.”
Osbourne acquired his ingesting below management for a number 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 could possibly be M.S., and a short Sabbath reunion on the ultimate 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.
Through the years, Osbourne’s excursions had launched steel followers to Metallica, Mötley Crüe, Korn, and a number of other different heavy hitters, so when Ozzfest turned a world, annual touring occasion, it turned essentially the most desired touring gig for heavy bands. Towards the late Nineties, the competition 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 fact TV present introduced Ozzy, Sharon, Kelly, and Jack as a lovingly dysfunctional household (Aimee opted out of the present), and it turned a scores blockbuster. All of a sudden, 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 Preserving Up With the Kardashians.
All of a sudden, 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 obtained 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 switch 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 yr, 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 informed reporters he maintained sobriety till his demise.
The group launched into a farewell tour that resulted in 2017, after which Osbourne introduced his personal ultimate world tour (No Extra Excursions 2) however he didn’t get far into it earlier than it began to disintegrate. First, a staph an infection pressured him to cancel a number of dates after which a late-night tumble despatched him right into a hospital for surgical procedure that pressured him to be bedridden for months. He revealed a prognosis of Parkinson’s illness in 2020 and resolved to hold on. That yr, he launched a solo album, Abnormal Man, that discovered him taking part in alongside a powerful visitor record — Elton John, Put up Malone, Slash — however a mixture of his accidents and the coronavirus pandemic stored him off the street. As of 2021, he was engaged on a brand new album with producer Andrew Watt that will function an identical visitor record.
On July 5, 2025, Osbourne gave his ultimate 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, town celebrated its most well-known sons’ homecoming and the lauded sold-out live performance drew followers from around the globe to witness the heavy steel royalty take their ultimate 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 authentic Black Sabbath members — guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler, and drummer Invoice Ward and collectively they carried out “Warfare Pigs,” “N.I.B.,” “Iron Man,” and “Paranoid.”
Exterior of music, Osbourne had cameos in a number of movies and TV exhibits 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 did not catch on. Osbourne later co-starred in a actuality present together with his son, Ozzy & Jack’s World Detour, during which the 2 road-tripped round the US, and The Osbournes Need to Imagine, during which he, Sharon, and Jack weighed in on found-footage paranormal movies.
In 2010, he launched I Am Ozzy and adopted the e-book up the subsequent yr 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 obtained 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 objective 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 will you retire from a rock band? It’s like saying, ‘Don’t plug in your amp.’ I don’t know anything. I’ll retire once they put the fucking nail within the lid.”
From Rolling Stone US.
