23-7-2025
Ozzy Osbourne, one of the pioneers of the heavy metal rock music genre has passed on at 76.
Ozzy, according to a statement by his family, passed on Tuesday weeks after his farewell show. He was surrounded by his loved ones. He has been battling with Parkinson’s disease after suffering a fall in 2020.
“It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away. He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time,” a family statement from Birmingham, England, said.
Ozzy was the frontman of the rock group Black Sabbath. But he parted ways with the band in 1979, he reemerged the next year as a solo artist with “Blizzard of Ozz” and the following year’s “Diary of a Madman,” both hard rock classics that went multiplatinum and spawned enduring favorites such as “Crazy Train,”
“Goodbye to Romance,” “Flying High Again” and “You Can’t Kill Rock and Roll.” Osbourne was twice inducted to the Rock Osbourne released the live album “Tribute” in 1987 in his memory.
Whomever he was playing with, Ozzy wasn’t likely to back down from controversy. He had the last laugh when the TV evangelist the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart in 1986 lambasted various rock groups and rock magazines as “the new pornography,” prompting some retailers to pull Osbourne’s album.
When Swaggart later was caught with a sex worker in 1988, Ozzy put out the song “Miracle Man” about his foe: “Miracle man got busted/miracle man got busted,” he sang. “Today I saw a Miracle Man on TV cryin’/Such a hypocritical man, born again, dying.”
simply said it was a personal decision and could not be disclosed.”