{"id":84477,"date":"2025-07-22T23:53:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T23:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/84477\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T23:53:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T23:53:22","slug":"ozzy-osbourne-black-sabbath-frontman-and-heavy-metal-icon-dies-at-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/84477\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath Frontman and Heavy Metal Icon, Dies at 76"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ozzy Osbourne<\/a> has died. \u201cIt is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning,\u201d the Osbourne family shared in a statement<\/a>. \u201cHe was with his family and surrounded by love.\u201d The heavy metal icon and founding member of Black Sabbath<\/a> was 76 years old.<\/p>\n

While a formal cause of death has not been announced, Osbourne dealt with numerous health issues<\/a> in the final years of his life. The musician played his final concert<\/a> earlier this month, a star-studded event in Birmingham, England, that featured the original Black Sabbath lineup, Metallica, Slayer, and others. The concert will be adapted into a film called Back to the Beginning: Ozzy\u2019s Final Bow<\/a>. It is due out next year.<\/p>\n

Ozzy Osbourne was born\u00a0John Michael Osbourne, in Birmingham, England, in 1948. Osbourne\u2019s obsession with music began when he heard the Beatles\u2019 song \u201cShe Loves You\u201d as a teenager. He formed Black Sabbath\u00a0with Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, and Bill Ward in the late 1960s. Osbourne helped revolutionize rock music during his tenure with the band, releasing albums like Paranoid<\/a> and\u00a0Master of Reality that would define hard rock and heavy metal in the decades to come.<\/p>\n

Along with their heavy sound, Black Sabbath were known for their dark and ominous imagery. Their debut album, 1970\u2019s Black Sabbath, opened with an eponymous song that Osbourne later called<\/a> \u201cthe scariest song ever written.\u201d The occult reputation also contributed to the singer\u2019s iconic nickname, the Prince of Darkness.<\/p>\n

Osbourne served as the lead vocalist for Black Sabbath until his dismissal from the band in 1979, when he was replaced by Ronnie James Dio. While Osbourne\u2019s bandmates contended that their reasons for firing him were\u00a0unreliability and his excessive substance abuse problems, Osbourne claimed that his use of drugs and alcohol was on par with the rest of the band at the time.<\/p>\n

After Black Sabbath, Osbourne\u00a0launched a hugely\u00a0successful solo career, with his first seven solo albums going on to earn multi-platinum certifications in the United States. Osbourne recorded the first two LPs with guitarist Randy Rhoads, co-writing the iconic single \u201cCrazy Train\u201d with him. Rhoads died in an airplane accident in 1982 while touring the second album. Osbourne would go on to release a live album in his honor titled\u00a0Tribute in 1987.<\/p>\n

Osbourne returned to Black Sabbath in 1997, and, the following year, he and his bandmates shared the live album Reunion. Later, in 2006, the band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. A true reunion studio album, 13<\/a>, followed in 2013. It proved to be the final release from the band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ozzy Osbourne has died. \u201cIt is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":84478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,975,9455,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-84477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-obituary","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114899583244823340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}