Ozzy Osbourne, the pioneer singer of Heavy Metal and the singer of Black Sabbath whose star was running on reality TV attached him to a new generation of fans, died, according to the Associated Press. He was 76 years old.
The news of Osbourne’s death comes 17 days after interpreting her final show In Birmingham, England, alongside his former group comrades of black Sabbath at the back to the Benefit Concert.
He had also recently announced a new memory entitled “Latest rites“” Who was to be released on October 7 via Grand Central Publishing.
Osbourne was already diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2019 and then declared in an interview With “Good Morning America” that it had been “terribly difficult”.
“It’s Prkn 2,” said his wife Sharon at the time. “There are so many different types of Parkinson. It is not a death sentence by an effort of imagination, but it affects certain nerves of your body. And it is – it is as if you had a good day, a good day, then a very bad day.”
Ozzy Osbourne signs copies of his album “Patient Number 9” in fingerprints on September 10, 2022 in Long Beach, California.
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In 1968, the native of Birmingham, in the United Kingdom, co-founded Black Sabbath with guitarist Tony Iommi, bass player Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward. The group has helped define the gender metal, thanks in large part to the voice of another world of Osbourne on conventional tunes such as “Iron Man”, “Paranoid” and “War Pigs”. Osbourne has also gained notoriety for its exploits often fueled by drugs and alcohol. His character and his buffoonery earned him the nicknames of Prince of Darkness and Metal Madman.
After a decade with the group, Osbourne was dismissed from Sabbath, allegedly beyond his drug addiction.
Ozzy Osbourne live at Moscow Music Peace Festival 1989 at Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, August 13, 1989.
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However, he quickly launched a solo career which, with the initial help of the virtuoso randy rhoads guitarist, was a more effective success than Black Sabbath. Among the memorable tunes of Osbourne from the 80s, there is “Crazy Train”, “Flying High Again”, “Shot in the Dark”, “Bark at the Moon” and “No More Tears”. In 1988, Osbourne scored a Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Close My Eyes Forever”, a duet with the former guitarist Lita Ford.
Over the years, Osbourne has sometimes found Black Sabbath, while mainly focusing on his solo efforts. In 1996, the wife and manager of Osbourne, Sharon, launched Ozzfest, an annual hard-rock festival and a tour that Osbourne regularly titled solo or with Sabbath.
In the early 2000s, the singer found a whole new audience when he played alongside Sharon and two of their children – Jack and Kelly – in the MTV success series “The Osbournes”, which took place from 2002 to 2005. He and his son Jack joined again for another reality program “, Ozzy & Jack’s World Detour, “who made his debut in 2016.
Ozzy Osbourne, center, poses with his family, from left to left, his daughter Aimee, his wife Sharon, his daughter Kelly, his son Jack and his son Louis, after being honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on April 12, 2002.
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In 2006, Osbourne was inducted into the rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Black Sabbath. The group – Minus Ward – met to record a last studio album, “13”, released in 2013. The group launched a farewell tour entitled The End which took place from January 2016 to February 2017.
Osbourne then refocused his solo career and launched the No More Tours II release, which he intended to be his last major trek. At the beginning of 2019, he fought against a superior respiratory infection and pneumonia which forced him to postpone the legs of the tour in the United Kingdom and in Europe, and to cancel the dates in Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
In an exclusive interview with “Good Morning America”, the rocker said that at the time of the diagnosis of his parkinson’s disease, he also had a bad fall which required surgery on the neck.
The fall finally led to three spine surgeries, none of which completely attenuated the injury, said Osbourne. He canceled his European tour in 2023 and announced He finished doing tours for good Due to his back problems.
This file photo of November 24, 2019 shows that Ozzy Osbourne performs at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles.
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“My only and only goal during this period was to come back to the stage,” he wrote on social networks at the time. “My singing voice is fine. However, after three operations, treatments on stem cells, endless physical therapy sessions and more recently the revolutionary cybernics (HAL) treatment, my body is always physically weak.”
In 2022, Osbourne closed the Commonwealth Games in his hometown of Birmingham in August alongside Iommi on the guitar. The place was just five minutes by car from where Osbourne went to school, he told “GMA” in September 2022.
“If someone had told me when I was 14 outside of these school doors,” you will be closed the Commonwealth Games “, it was right – my life was incredible. And that things happened,” said Osbourne at the time.
At the age of 74, Osbourne won the Grammy for the best metal performance for the song “Rules degradation” alongside Iommi on the guitar. The song came from his 13th studio album, “Patient Number 9”, which also won a Grammy for the best rock album and went to No. 3 on the American charts and n ° 2 in the United Kingdom after its release in September 2022.
On June 11, 2018, the file photo shows the musician Ozzy Osbourne, on the left, and his wife Sharon Osbourne at Metal Hammer Golden God Awards in London.
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Osbourne won five Grammy Awards as a solo artist, while Black Sabbath won two Grammy Awards and a life production prize in 2019.
Osbourne married his second wife, Sharon, in 1982 and had three children, Aimee, Kelly and Jack. Although love has chosen not to appear on “The Osbournes”, Sharon, Kelly and Jack Osbourne were presented everywhere and paved the way for future reality TV shows focused on the family like “Keeping Up with the Kardashians”.
The singer was previously married to Thelma Riley from 1971 to 1982. He had two children with his first wife, Jessica and Louis. He also adopted his son Elliot from a previous marriage.