Imagine the gates of Buckingham Palace opening as evening settles over London. Thousands of people fill the courtyard. No one knows exactly what they’re about to witness. The lights dim. A hush falls across the crowd. Then, one by one, six silhouettes emerge from the darkness. Ozzy Osbourne. Paul McCartney. Eric Clapton. Rod Stewart. … Read more
The world knew him as the Prince of Darkness. To millions of fans, Ozzy Osbourne was the unmistakable voice of Black Sabbath, a solo icon whose music helped create heavy metal and influenced generations of artists. But to Kelly Osbourne, he was something much simpler. He was Dad. Following Ozzy Osbourne’s passing at the … Read more
Taking to Instagram on Wednesday, the couple shared the happy news as they posted a black and white photo of their daughter alongside a ‘Hello world’ card confirming she was born March 5. Revealing her name Jack captioned the post: ‘Introducing Ozzy Matilda Osbourne’ in a heartfelt tribute to the late rockstar. He added on … Read more
The Ozzy Osbourne that the world received is a specific and carefully constructed thing. The Prince of Darkness. The bat-biter. The man who bit the head off a dove in a record label meeting and off a bat onstage in Des Moines. The television persona of The Osbournes who shuffled through his own house in … Read more
In April 1979, Black Sabbath made one of the most agonizing decisions in their history: firing the man whose voice had defined them since 1968. Ozzy Osbourne wasn’t just an employee or a hired singer. He was a founder, one of four teenagers from Aston who built a sound that essentially invented heavy metal. And … Read more
By 1979, Ozzy Osbourne had been fired from Black Sabbath and was, by his own later admission, in a very dark place. He had money, but no direction. He had a name, but no band. His manager and future wife Sharon Arden had arranged a series of auditions for a new backing group, and Ozzy … Read more
When Ozzy Osbourne was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979 — a dismissal driven primarily by his escalating substance abuse and the band’s exhaustion with managing it — he was, by his own account, finished. Not metaphorically. He has described the months following his firing as among the darkest of his life, a period of … Read more
The relationship between Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi is one of the strangest and most durable partnerships in rock history. Strange because by any conventional measure it should not have survived. The number of times Ozzy’s chaos — the addictions, the behavior, the specific form of self-destruction that he has navigated in public for … Read more
The loss of a musical partner can leave wounds that never truly heal. For Ozzy Osbourne, the tragic death of guitarist Randy Rhoads in 1982 was more than the loss of a bandmate—it was the loss of a close friend and one of the most gifted musicians he had ever worked with. Music & Audio Just … Read more
There are artists who become famous. There are artists who sell millions of records. And then there are the rare few who permanently change the course of music. Ozzy Osbourne belongs in that final category. For more than five decades, the man known around the world as the Prince of Darkness stood at the center … Read more