Ozzy Osbourne, the legend of Heavy Metal which has become famous in the Pioneer Black Sabbath group, died, his family said in a statement at CBS News. He was 76 years old.
“It is with more sadness that simple words cannot reveal that we must point out that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne died this morning,” the family said in the press release. “He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family intimacy at the moment.”
Either dressed in black or naked torso, the singer was often the target of groups of parents for his images and once caused a tumult to bite his head. Later, he would prove to be an opponent and sweet father in the reality TV show “The Osbournes”.
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The first eponymous LP of Black Sabbath in 1969 was compared to the Big Bang of Heavy Metal. He came to the height of the Vietnam War and crushed the Hippie party, dripping with threat and worrying. The record of the record was of a frightening silhouette against an austere landscape. The music was noisy, dense and angry, and marked a change in rock ‘n’ roll.
The group’s second album, “Paranoid”, included classic metallic tunes such as “War Pigs”, “Iron Man” and “Fairies Wear Boots”. The song “Paranoid” only reached No. 61 on the Billboard Hot 100, but has become in many ways the song’s signature song. The two albums were elected among the 10 best albums of heavy metal of all time by the readers of the magazine Rolling Stone.
“The Black Sabbath is the Beatles of Heavy Metal. Anyone who is serious about the metal will tell you that everything comes down to Sabbat,” wrote Dave Navarro of the Jane group in a tribute in 2010 to Rolling Stone. “There is a direct line that you can remove from today’s metal, through groups from the 80s like Iron Maiden, in Sabbath.”
Sabbath dismissed Osbourne in 1979 for his legendary excesses, as arising late for missing rehearsals and concerts. “We knew that we did not really have the choice to dismiss him because he was so out of control. But we were all very at the bottom of the situation,” wrote Bassiste Terry “Geezer” Butler in his memories, “in the void”.
Osbourne re-emerged the following year as a solo artist with “Blizzard of Ozz” and “Journal of a Madman” of the following year, the two Hard Rock classics who became multi-plain and gave enriching favorites such as “Crazy Train”, “Goodbye to Romance”, “” Flying High Again “and” You can Kill Rock and Roll “. Osbourne was inducted twice at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame – once with Sabbath in 2006 and Again in 2024 As a solo artist.
The original Sabbath program met for the first time in 20 years in July 2025 in the United Kingdom for what Osborne said final concert. “Let madness start!” He said to 42,000 fans.
Metallica, Guns N Roses, Slayer, Tool, Pantera, Gojira, Alice in Chains, Lamb of God, Halestorm, Anthrax, Rival Sons and Mastodon made sets. Tom Morello, Steven Tyler d’Aerosmith, Billy Corgan, Ronnie Wood, Travis Barker, Sammy Hagar, Andrew Watt, Yungblud, Jonathan Davis, Nuno Bettencourt, Chad Smith and Vernon Reid. Actor Jason Momoa was the host of the festivities.
“Black Sabbath: We would all be different people without them, it’s the truth,” said Pantera singer Phil Anselmo. “I know that I would not be here with a microphone in hand without black sabbath.”
Osbourne embodied excess metal. His bizarre exploits included the relief of the Alamo, sniffing a line of ants on a sidewalk and, the most memorable, biting the head of a live bat that a fan launched on stage during a 1981 concert (he said he thought it was rubber.)
Osbourne was continued in 1987 by parents of a 19 -year -old teenager who died by suicide while listening to his song “Suicide Solution”. The trial was rejected. Osbourne said that the song was really about the dangers of alcohol, which caused the death of his friend Bon Scott, AC / DC principal singer.
Cardinal John J. O’Connor of New York said in 1990 that Osbourne’s songs had led to demonic possession and even suicide. “You ignore the true meaning of my songs,” wrote the singer. “You have also insulted the intelligence of rock fans around the world.”
The public of Osbourne shows could be confused or spit by the singer. They were often confronted with screaming with the song, but the Osbourne who devoured Satan of it usually returned the crowd at home with their ears ring and a generous “God injuries!”
He started an annual tour – Ozzfest – in 1996 after being rejected from the range of what was the best music festival on tour, Lollapalooza. Ozzfest continued to welcome groups such as Slipknot, Tool, Megadeth, Rob Zombie, System of A Down, Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park.
Osbourne’s look has changed its life little. He was wearing his long hair flat, his make -up for thick black eyes and his round glasses, often wearing a cross around his neck. In 2013, he found Black Sabbath for the Dour, Raw “13”, which reached No. 1 on the list of British albums and culminated at n ° 86 on the American Billboard 200. In 2019, he had a Top 10 when he presented on “Take You Want” by Post What What Was. 1989.
In 2020, he released the album “Ordinary Man”, which had his song title a duet with Elton John. “I was a villain, was higher than the blue sky / and the truth is that I don’t want to die an ordinary man,” he sang. In 2022, he won his first career in the singles of Radio Rock N ° 1 from his album “Patient Number 9”, which presented collaborations with Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Mike McCready, Chad Smith, Robert Trujillo and Duff McKagan. He won four nominations in Grammy.
During the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame enthronement ceremony in 2024, Jack Black called him “Greatest Fleader in the History of Rock and Roll” and “The Jack Nicholson of Rock”. Osbourne thanked his fans, his guitarist Randy Rhoads and his longtime wife Sharon.
John Michael Osbourne was raised in the grainy city of Birmingham, England. Children at school nicknamed him Ozzy, runs for his last name. As a child, he loved the Four Seasons, Chuck Berry and Little Richard. The Beatles made a huge impression.
“They came from Liverpool, who was about 60 miles north where I come from,” he told Billboard. “So all of a sudden it was within my reach, but I never thought it would be a success that it became.”
In the late 1960s, Osbourne had joined butler, guitarist Tony Iommi and drummer Bill Ward as Polka Tulk Blues Band. They decided to rename the Earth group, but found their dismay that there was another group with this name. They therefore changed the name in the American reigning of the classic Italian horror film “I tre Volti della Paura”, with Boris Karloff: Black Sabbath.
Once they found their groove mud and disturbing, the group was productive, turning off their eponymous and “paranoid debut” in 1970, “Master of Reality” in 1971, “Vol. 4” In 1972 and “Sabbat Bloody Sabbath” in 1973.
Music was all about industrial guitar riffs and disorienting changes in temporal signatures, as well as words that were talking about alienation and misfortune. “People think I’m crazy because I frown all the time,” sang Osbourne in a song. “All day, I think of things but nothing seems to satisfy / think that I will lose my head if I can’t find something to pacify.”
The Guardian newspaper in 2009 said that the group “introduced the anger class, grooves from Stoner sludge and a horror rock rock to power. Black Sabbath confronted the empty platitudes of the 1960s and, with Altamont and Charles Manson, almost certainly helped kill the hippie counterculture.” “”
After Sabbath, Osbourne had a strange talent for having called some of the most creative young guitarists by his side. When he went solo, he hired the brilliant innovator Rhoads, who played on two of the best solo albums in Osbourne, “Blizzard of Ozz” and “Diary of a Madman”. Rhoads was killed in a previous plan accident in 1982; Osbourne released the album Live “Tribute” in 1987 in his memory.
Osbourne then signed Jake E. Lee, who lent his talents to the Platinum albums “Bark at the Moon” and “The Ultimate Sin”. Hosthot Zakk Wylde joined the Osbourne group for “No Rest for the Wicked” and the multiplatinum “No More Tears”.
“They come, they push wings, they flourish and they fly away,” Osbourne told his players in 1995 at the Associated Press. “But I have to move on. To get a new player from time to time stimulates me from time to time.”
To whom he played, Osbourne should not go back from the controversy. He had the last laugh when the televisionist of television Reverend Jimmy Swaggart in 1986 castigated various rock groups and rock magazines as “The New Pornography”, which prompted certain retailers to draw Osbourne’s album.
When Swaggart was then caught up in a sex worker in 1988, Osbourne released the song “Miracle Man” on his enemy: “Miracle Man was broken / Miracle Man broke”, he sang. “Today, I saw a miracle man, on Cryin ‘television/ a man so hypocritical, born again, dying.”
