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Ozi Osborn, who was born on 3 December 1948, was born John Michael Osborne, and later earned the surname “The Prince of Darkness” from his shady heavy metal personality, on Tuesday, July 22, died after battling several health issues in many years. He was 76 years old.
Black Sabbath Frontman was known as his indelible mark on the music industry as he was for the personality of his big-to-life, filming on stage or a large-scale successful reality show on the stage or in front of a camera.
Two weeks before his death, Ozi re-shared a star-staded Farewell show in England with Black Sabbath to showcase the dark and electric sand-off for one of the biggest legends in Rock.
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Ozi Osborne left heritage throughout his life in the music industry. Black Sabbath Frontman died on Tuesday. He was 76 years old. (Ilya s. Sevenok)
During his last show at Villa Park on 5 July, Osborne expressed his gratitude for heavy support as a band, including Tony Iomi, Terence “Geyser” Butler and Bill Ward, first performed simultaneously in 20 years.
The 10-hour show was hosted by Jason Momoa and performed with Metalica, Guns N ‘Roses, Jack Black, Steven Tyler and others. During the show, at a point, which was livestroined in the UK, mythological drivers, including the tool’s Danny Carry, Red Hot Chile Papers Chad Smith and the Travis Barker of Blink -182, covered the “signs of the universe”, fighting with their drumsticks.
Ozi Osbourne Black Sabbath performs the final concert with bands and more mythological artists
For the closing set, veteran Rock Star was lifted on stage with a black throne with the skull and placed on top with a black bat. He sang a hit like “Crazy Train” and “Mama I Am Coming Home” while sitting during the entire set.
Ozid Osbourne performed Black Sabbath’s Farewell Show, “Back to the Beginning” in Birmingham, Villa Park in Britain, on 5 July 2025. (Reuters/Sachin Ravikumar)
“You don’t know how I feel,” Osbourne told the crowd. “Thank you deeply of my heart.”
Born in Aston, West Midlands, UK, Ozi was designed for the theater as a child, but he eventually turned to music after hearing a special song from Beatles.
“When I heard that she loves you,” my world went like a shooting star, “Osborne once told Eskwire.” It was a divine experience. The planets changed. I used to imagine that Paul McCartney would marry my sister. “
Watch: Ozy Osbourne during his final performance with Black Sabbath
After leaving school as a teenager, Osborne spent six weeks in jail after being convicted of robbing a clothes shop. It was admitted by Geyser Butler in 1967, a Black Sabbath to be a singer in a band.
His terrible sound helped pave the way for heavy metal music, credited as the leading albums in the industry – “Black Sabbath,” Black Sabbath, “Paranoid” and “Master of Reality”.
After achieving professional success, releasing three more albums and touring for a handful of years, Ozi thrown into a towel in 1978 to pursue a single attempt, “Oz’s icy storm.”
He re -incorporated the group, fired only three months later by Black Sabbath, and was replaced by Ronnie James Dio. Ozi was already around the throat of drug addiction and addiction, like members of other bands, claimed in his book, “I am.”
Ozi Osbourne sang lead vocals for Black Sabbath. (Ross Marino/Getty Images)
Black Sabbath consisted of Geyser Butler, Tony Eomi, Bill Ward and Ozy Osbourne. (Chris Walter/Wirimage)
Butler wrote in his memoir, “We knew that we did not really have an option because he was just out of control because he was out of control. But we were all very low about the situation.”
In 1982, a year after signing its first single record deal, Ozi shut down with a bat while performing at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Iowa. Osbourne later claimed a bat bit, and was treated for rabies.
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Now in itself, a star, Ozi, married her manager, Sharon Arden, on July 4, 1982, and continued her climb to Rock Stardom. The power couple later formed the Ozafest in the 90s, the first heavy metal-centric festival that earned more than $ 100 million.
“Iron Man” was a singer Diagnosis of Parkinson’s in 2003. However, he did not publicly talk about his diagnosis until 2020. He admitted that he could no longer run during the January 29 episode of his Serious XM Show, “Ozi Spikes”.
He said, “I can mourn how I cannot walk, but I look down on the road and there are people who did not do as half as me, and they did not make it,” they said at that time.
The band was known for its slightly frightening sound. (Getty image)
Ozi married her manager, Sharon Estance, on July 4, 1982 and the couple welcomed three children. (Mike Malon)
The “dreamer” singer struggled with many physical illnesses over the years. In 2003, he died in an ATV accident when his quad flipped on him when he was riding around his London Estate.
In 2022, the “Mama I Am Coming Home” singer performed surgery to remove and get the pin in his neck and back. All-Terin vehicle collision is likely to have Ozi back problems.
At that time, he “of an emergency surgery for a broken collarbone (and) eight fragmented ribs that were pinching vital blood vessels and damaged vertebrae in their neck.”
“I’m just waiting for some more surgery on my neck,” he told classic rock Magazine in May 2022. “I can’t walk properly these days. I have physical therapy every morning. I am something better, but not as much as I want to go back to the road.”
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Asked if he ever thought of his mortality, Ozi said he feels optimistic about his future because he saw the past.
In the early 2000s, Osborn became a domestic name when MTV launched an unscripled show about the family. The series premiered in 2002 and lasted for four sessions in 2005 with the final curtain calls. (Dave Hogan)
“F — ING 73, I have done very well,” he said. “I don’t plan to go anywhere, But my time is coming,
Years after his success as a heavy metal rock star, the Osborne family became a domestic name in the early 2000s when MTV took fans as famous stars inside their lives – and with the children of Rock Royalty – An unpublished show about familyThe series premiered in 2002 and lasted for four sessions in 2005 with the final curtain calls.
The Grammy Award winner was clear about his drug and alcohol issues, and when released “Black Rain” in 2007, his first album in about six years reflected on the importance of Catalogs.
“I thought I would never write again without any excitement. … But you know what? Instead of taking the bottle, I just became honest and said, ‘I don’t want life to go life. [to pieces]He told Billboard magazine.
The band played again in May 2012 and played his first concert since 2005. The following year, he began on a world tour, which ended in June 2014 at Hyde Park in London.
Ozi faced many health issues throughout his life and revealed the diagnosis of Parkinson’s in 2022. (Bryan Ropular/icon via Sportswire Getty Image)
His 20th studio albums and the final tour were slated for 2016, but by the beginning of March 2017, Black Sabbath dissolved, and Osborne later said that he was not interested in reunion.
“Not for me. It is done,” Osbourne told the ultimate classic rock. “The only thing that I regret is not doing the last farewell show in Birmingham with Bill Ward. I felt really bad. It would be great. It would be very good that what were the circumstances behind it, but it would be good. I have talked to Tony a few times, but I am not interested in doing another gig.
Prior to his death, Osborne reflected on a permanent heritage that he wished to leave the world as his Parkinson’s disease increased.
“Survival is my legacy,” he told People magazine. “I mean, I am 73 years old. People go, ‘Okay, you are 70 … Why don’t I throw the towel?’ I should still buy my records.
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After his death, Osbornness released a statement to Fox News Digital.
“This is more sad, compared to words, we can tell that we have to tell that our beloved Ozi Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and was surrounded by love. We all ask all to respect our family’s privacy at this time.”
Apart from daughter Jessica and sons Elliott and Louis by Osbourne wife Sharon, daughters Kelly and Amy and son Jack, their first marriage is left from Thalama relay.
