{"id":285488,"date":"2025-07-23T15:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/285488\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:12:09","slug":"coldplay-geordie-greep-and-more-cover-black-sabbath-to-honor-ozzy-osbourne-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/285488\/","title":{"rendered":"Coldplay, Geordie Greep, and More Cover Black Sabbath to Honor Ozzy Osbourne: Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Musicians around the world are commemorating <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/3180-ozzy-osbourne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ozzy Osbourne<\/a> following the <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/379-black-sabbath\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Sabbath<\/a> legend\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/ozzy-osbourne-black-sabbath-frontman-and-heavy-metal-icon-dies-at-76\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">death<\/a> yesterday at the age of 76. After a series of written <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/ozzy-forever-black-sabbath-elton-john-tom-morello-pay-tribute-to-ozzy-osbourne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tributes<\/a>\u2014from the likes of Elton John, Tom Morello, Metallica, and Jack White\u2014artists playing concerts last night celebrated Osbourne\u2019s life and work with covers, speeches, and singalongs. Among them were <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/790-coldplay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coldplay<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/7986-dave-matthews-band\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dave Matthews Band<\/a>, who both covered Black Sabbath\u2019s \u201cChanges,\u201d and former Black Midi frontperson <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/geordie-greep\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geordie Greep<\/a>, who led his band in an instrumental covers medley in Black Sabbath\u2019s Birmingham hometown. Watch footage of all three below.<\/p>\n<p>After jamming through \u201cSymptom of the Universe, \u201cWar Pigs,\u201d \u201cN.I.B.,\u201d \u201cParanoid,\u201d \u201cSweet Leaf,\u201d and \u201cCrazy Train\u201d at Birmingham\u2019s XOYO venue, Greep said Black Sabbath \u201cmade this music that really changed everything, and they came from this town.\u201d He added, \u201cYou get a guitar, you go to a rehearsal room when you\u2019re 12 or something, and you play these songs, and you feel like you\u2019re gonna have superpowers. It\u2019s like magic. And it was these fucking guys just coming from this town\u2014which is not exactly Beverly Hills. It\u2019s amazing.\u2026 Rest in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Lady Gaga closed out a Mayhem Ball show in San Francisco by ripping open her jacket to <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMcJHWZOndF\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMcJHWZOndF\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMcJHWZOndF\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reveal<\/a> an Ozzy Osbourne T-shirt, before playing his solo song \u201cCrazy Train\u201d through the PA. Cyndi Lauper led her Raleigh, North Carolina, crowd in a singalong to the same track by playing it from her phone into the mic.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Musicians around the world are commemorating Ozzy Osbourne following the Black Sabbath legend\u2019s death yesterday at the age&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64766,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-285488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-cover","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114903196910895044","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}