https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/22/ozzy-osbourne-black-sabbath-frontman-and-icon-of-british-heavy-metal-dies-aged-76

Simultaneously a shock and yet not.

That makes this, a bit over 2 weeks ago, his final live song performance ever.



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Simultaneously a shock and yet not.

That makes this, a bit over 2 weeks ago, his final live song performance ever.



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https://youtu.be/zPjYVZCED5Q

So sad !:( Saw a video of his last time singing " Mama, I'm coming home". Beautiful, totally was in tears.

Rest well Ozzie. He had a really interesting stage persona, and waa such a good guy, Husband, Father and Grandfather in real life ! :)

Prayers to Sharon and the family.

So sad !:( Saw a video of his last time singing " Mama, I'm coming home". Beautiful, totally was in tears.

Rest well Ozzie. He had a really interesting stage persona, and waa such a good guy, Husband, Father and Grandfather in real life ! :)

Prayers to Sharon and the family.

The local classic rock station is obviously going heavy on the Black Sabbath and Ozzy solo stuff tonight.

I just heard this today...... Very sad :(

The local classic rock station is obviously going heavy on the Black Sabbath and Ozzy solo stuff tonight.

I been listening to some Black Sabbath/ Ozzy on YouTube throughout the day . :)

Check out " War Pigs" . At the time , it was thought Ozzy and Black Sabbath were so evil and diabolical. Listen to this song and read the lyrics. It's an Anti war song/ anti Vietnam ! So not evil at all! They were shedding light on the cr*p going on back than . And hey, it still rings true today, right? I'll stop here, before I get tok political !

Before there was the reality show, before the stunts involving bats and doves, Ozzy was the voice of the band who made sense of my turbulent teenage years in the 70's, Black Sabbath. His was the voice who gave life to Geezer's impassioned lyrics. He was not the "icon" he would later become, but even though my discovery of him came a few years after "Iron Man" had captured my consciousness, in 1976, Ozzy spelled out the world when disco and fluff-pop threatened to undermine the social consciousness that ended in the late 60's.

"War Pigs" laid waste to any optimism the 60's pipe dreams had about "Love Is All You Need". "Paranoid" tapped into so many adolescent fears we all had. "Children Of the Grave" gave us the marching orders, "Show the world that love is still alive, you must be brave!" in a time when "civilized" society was straining for the nuclear option. Yet, everyone remembered Ozzy in the 80's for the bats-and-doves incidents and for his reality show on MTV twenty years later.

Ozzy was a self-effacing rock star who was pretty much aware of who he was. He had a sense of humility and perspective about himself that was far beyond his peers. He had the world laugh at him as well as with him And he will be missed.

I haven't been this down about a singer passing since Prince nine years ago. Ozzy was a force above most, always entertaining no matter if he was singing on stage or pulling shenanigans. I spent the day of Ozzy's passing listening to my favorites of his (So Tired, Flying High Again, Over the Mountain, Shot in the Dark, Fire in the Sky, See You on the Other Side, etc.). It's almost like losing a relative. I hope Sharon and the rest of his family have enough love and support to get through this tough time and the times ahead.

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I been listening to some Black Sabbath/ Ozzy on YouTube throughout the day . :)

Check out " War Pigs" . At the time , it was thought Ozzy and Black Sabbath were so evil and diabolical. Listen to this song and read the lyrics. It's an Anti war song/ anti Vietnam ! So not evil at all! They were shedding light on the cr*p going on back than . And hey, it still rings true today, right? I'll stop here, before I get tok political !

Did you ever hear Ozzy Osbourne's song Close My Eyes Forever Bonnie? That is one of his best power rock ballad duets with a singer named Lita Ford and it was one of Lita Ford's top hits in 1988. Interestingly Sharon Osbourne was Lita Ford's manager at the time as well. So I wonder if Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford went on tour together?

Poor Ozzy :(

Did you ever hear Ozzy Osbourne's song Close My Eyes Forever Bonnie? That is one of his best power rock ballad duets with a singer named Lita Ford and it was one of Lita Ford's top hits in 1988. Interestingly Sharon Osbourne was Lita Ford's manager at the time as well. So I wonder if Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford went on tour together?

Yes. It's a very beautiful song . :)

I was very sad when I heard as I'm a huge fan.

He was doing a book signing for his memoir at a BORDERS in NYC back in 2010 and I waited hours. Nobody got to speak to him as the poor man was simply signing 100s of books that his handlers kept passing to him.

I saw that the book is now going for $1000s online.




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I was crying that night fifteen years ago when Ronnie James Dio died. But when Ozzy passed away two weeks ago, I hadn't really shed tears (yet). I don't know if it was because we expected his life to not be much longer, or what was the situation. It's strange because for me since the mid-70's, Ozzy was the frontman for the most important band of all time, Black Sabbath, who spoke the truth in a way few bands ever could then. He became that macabre clown figure in the 80's onward, and never lost his sense of humor nor humility.

However, I was getting pretty emotional hearing "Changes" on Ozzy's Boneyard on Sirius XM that day.

I had a big crush on Ozzy Osbourne when The Osbournes premiered and I bought the DVD of The Osbournes Season 1 and thought he looked very cool and then I had Ozzy clothing The Osbournes plushies and a watch of The Osbournes too and my uncle even got to see Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne concerts as a teenager and had records of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath too but every time my uncle would be cleaning his room as a teenager Mom would hear him sing along with Iron Man at full blast and my grandma would always tell my mom to tell my uncle to turn down the volume in his room. But my two favorite songs of Ozzy Osbourne were Crazy Train and Close My Eyes Forever with Lita Ford and that song is the reason I got Lita Ford's 1988 album Lita. As I mentioned I wonder if Lita Ford was ever an opening act for Ozzy Osbourne when he did tours because I know that Sharon Osbourne became Lita Ford's manager at the time and it makes me also wonder if Lita and Ozzy Osbourne became best friends?

:(

It is so sad and heartbreaking; may he rest in peace

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