RIP Ozzy Osbourne
 

The Black Sabbath leader, the Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne has passed at 76, just after finishing his final farewell tour. To anyone who is a heavy metal fan, Ozzy will always be an icon. Rest well Ozzy, best wishes to the band and the family.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn0qq5nyxn0t
I know he was in declining health, but the family kept denying his days were few so I am a little surprised he has already Closed His Eyes Forever.

Wow. Wasn't it like 2 weeks ago he was waving goodbye to the crowd? He really put his money where his mouth is.

RIP to the GOAT.

Masters of Reality has been in my rotation pretty steadily for most of my life.

Oh wow, there's one that's hard to believe. :ohwell:

I wasn’t huge into Ozzy but of course I like some of his music. I don’t know all of it though.

Never watched their Reality show...over the last few years I’ve been watching the reruns of The Osbornes Want to Believe, where they rank scary videos. I really liked that. He had a good sense of humor

He said he was against messing with the supernatural. Not investigating it but when people use Ouija boards and try to conjure stuff. He even mentioned he knew someone who practiced that but didn’t want talk about it.

I agree with him. Nobody knows for sure what the Afterlife is like and I think a lot of those videos are fake but I do believe in the supernatural. We should not play around with it.

Luckily I got to see him twice at my first 2 concerts ever, Ozzfest 2000 and 2001. He sure made some great songs in his life.

In Maryland Heights?
I also got to see him there twice, once as Ozzy and once as black sabbath at Ozzfest but in the mid 2000s. I was like 14 but I already thought he was going to die at anytime, he could barely move in The Osbournes show and had that ATV accident.

This brought a tear to my eye. I had been listening to Black Sabbath every day after the farewell concert. What a legend.

Didn't really pay any attention to him as a musician, to be honest, mostly just knew of him by name and fame... but used to catch reruns of that show too and loved it.

In other news, Keith Richards has just experienced The Quickening.

I’ll see myself out.

I didn't really grow up with the guy as the "Prince of Darkness," I grew up with him on MTV's "The Osbornes" reality show behaving like the whacked out but loveable dad. So it's hard for me to ascribe him that stature but I respect his career and those that love his work.

It was in Maryland Heights, how did you know? Did you grow up in Missouri too?

Kind of interesting now both frontmen of Sabbath are no longer with us. Dio in 2010 and now Ozzy.

They'd been filming a sequel series for the BBC for a while, and now the corporation is debating whether or not to air it

https://deadline.com/2025/07/ozzy-os...st-1236465816/

That's dumb. Why wouldn't they want to air it? Obviously Ozzy agreed to it all with the obvious intention that it'd be put out there.

Ozzie's catalog is littered with great songs. He had a very formulaic sort of wave structure to his lyrical melodies that was a great sound, and he repeated it so often that he just has a lot of solid songs. It was like - he found a lyrical pattern that worked and just stuck with it.

Also, his reality show was really entertaining and his silly "rich guy life" was fun to watch rather than incurring the kind of resentment most people got from watching other shows like "MTV Cribs".

Just sad to see him go.

417 :tgrin:

I see, I live in St. Louis. For some reason I thought you lived in Europe. I went tothose concerts when I was 14 and 15. My Uncle took me because he is a big fan of metal. I got to see Pantera at my first concert ever. It's a pretty special memory. The whole entire lawn was a moshpit. That was the biggest moshpit that I have ever seen and I have seen many.