Ozzy Osbourne has died ‘surrounded by love’ on the age of 76, an announcement from his household mentioned.
The Black Sabbath frontman had carried out from a throne on stage at Villa Park in Birmingham lower than three weeks in the past.
In an announcement, his household mentioned tonight: ‘It’s with extra unhappiness than mere phrases can convey that now we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has handed away this morning. He was together with his household and surrounded by love.’
The rocker was in a position to bid an emotional farewell to his followers on stage this month as he reunited together with his unique Black Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Invoice Ward for the primary time since 2005.
‘You have no thought how I really feel – thanks from the underside of my coronary heart,’ Osbourne informed the group in his remaining speech.
The star was a titan of music who by some means survived controversies that may finish the careers of many others, and weathered well being issues that would depart most of us on our backs.
Whether or not it was biting the top off each a bat and a dove, snorting a line of ants or urinating on a US warfare memorial whereas sporting one in all his spouse Sharon’s clothes, Osbourne was outlined by his antics each on and off stage.
His demise ends the ultimate chapter of a life that was marked by each dizzying success and fame but additionally scandal, abuse and even jail time.
The singer, who bought greater than 100 million information, will endlessly be synonymous with the heavy metallic band he fashioned in his house metropolis of Birmingham in 1969.
With hits that included Iron Man, Struggle Pigs and Paranoid, Black Sabbath’s pushing of occult themes proved each massively in style and controversial, with a future pope even condemning Osbourne for his ‘subliminal satanic affect’.
Ozzy Osbourne at his Black Sabbath farewell gig at Villa Park stadium in July 2025
Ozzy Osbourne, who has died aged 76, had a profession that was outlined by his antics each on and off-stage. Pictured: The star leaving hospital (left) on June 16, 2022, after a serious again operation; Osbourne performing with Black Sabbath in 1978
Osbourne’s most notorious second got here when he bit the top off a bat that had been thrown on stage throughout a solo efficiency. He later claimed he thought it was product of rubber.
Tributes have already poured in for the celebrity following his household’s announcement this night.
David Coverdale, founder and lead singer of rock band Whitesnake – who was reportedly as soon as thought-about for the position of Black Sabbath frontman – paid his respects on X.
‘My Honest Condolences To Sharon, The Household, Pals & Followers,’ he wrote.
X Issue duo Jedward had been additionally fast to pay their respects, writing: ‘Rip Ozzy Osbourne sending like to Sharon and Kelly and Jack and the entire household ♥️ .’
After being thrown out of his band in 1979 as a consequence of his drug-fuelled antics, Osbourne solid a massively profitable solo profession, with hits that included Loopy Practice and Hellraiser.
However his hellraising off stage continued. In 1989 he tried to kill Sharon whereas excessive on medicine, and 7 years earlier than that he urinated on the treasured Alamo Cenotaph in Texas, an act that noticed him banned from San Antonio for a decade.
He was additionally injured in a quad bike crash at his UK house in 2003, an episode that had a severe affect on his fragile well being.
But there was additionally redemption for the troubled singer, who relaunched himself as a actuality television star in The Osbournes within the early 2000s, after getting clear from drink and medicines with the assistance of Sharon.
It noticed two of his and Sharon’s kids, Kelly and Jack, develop into stars in their very own proper, while their different daughter Aimee declined to seem.
There was a return too to Black Sabbath in 1997, when the unique line-up obtained again collectively. 5 years later, he and Iommi had been an unlikely a part of the star-studded lineup on the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Live performance at Buckingham Palace, the place they carried out Paranoid.
Osbourne’s remaining efficiency with Black Sabbath got here in 2025, when he reunited together with his bandmates for a remaining gig at Aston Villa’s Villa Park stadium in Birmingham.
Having then suffered from Parkinson’s illness for greater than 5 years, he was seated for a lot of the farewell efficiency.
Born John Michael Osbourne on December 3, 1948, the singer was raised by his dad and mom Lilian and John with three older sisters and two youthful brothers in a small two-bedroom house in Birmingham.
The singer, who bought greater than 100million information, will endlessly be synonymous with the heavy metallic band he fashioned in his house metropolis of Birmingham with Tony Iommi, Invoice Ward and Geezer Butler in 1969. Above: Osbourne (far proper) with Butler (left), Iommi (second from left) and Ward within the Seventies
Osbourne and his spouse Sharon and their kids Aimee, Kelly and Jack, are pictured at their US house in 1987. He and Sharon married in 1982
Osbourne relaunched himself as a actuality television star in The Osbournes within the early 2000s, after getting clear from drink and medicines with the assistance of Sharon. It noticed two of his and Sharon’s kids, Kelly and Jack, develop into stars in their very own proper, while their different daughter Aimee declined to seem. Above: Osbourne with Sharon, Jack and Kelly
Osbourne recovered from his drink and drug issues with the assistance of his spouse Sharon. Pictured: The pair on the Grammy Awards in January 2020
The household of eight grew up poor and Ozzy mentioned it was troublesome as a result of his dad and mom had been at all times preventing about cash.
Their strained marriage meant Ozzy didn’t converse to his dad and mom after he was repeatedly sexually abused, aged 11, by two bullies.
He mentioned in a later interview: ‘I used to be afraid to inform my father or mom and it fully f***ed me up. Soiled little secrets and techniques fester and that is among the first issues I mentioned to my youngsters.’
Aged 14, Osbourne tried to hold himself and was solely saved by his father.
He was a persistent truant from faculty and suffered from each consideration deficit hyperactivity dysfunction (ADHD) and dyslexia, while his violent streak made an early look when he as soon as attacked a trainer with an iron bar.
The one topic that caught his consideration in school was music and he carried out in a number of productions of Gilbert & Sullivan operettas.
Osbourne left training at 15 and located work as a labourer and abattoir employee. He admitted later that he ‘beloved killing animals’.
Nonetheless, Osbourne then turned to petty crime. After stealing a tv and child garments simply earlier than his 18th birthday, he was arrested and spent six weeks behind bars as a result of his father refused to pay his £40 superb.
Ozzy Osbourne is pictured as a toddler and through his early years with Black Sabbath, in 1973. The band rapidly fashioned a fame for his or her occult themes
Born John Michael Osbourne on December 3, 1948, the singer was raised by his dad and mom Lilian and John with three older sisters and two youthful brothers in a small two-bedroom house in Birmingham
Ozzy Osbourne is pictured in 1970, the 12 months after he fashioned Black Sabbath. The band was initially named Earth however its title was modified to Black Sabbath quickly after
Osbourne is seen above on his marriage ceremony day in 1982 with Sharon, her dad and mom Hope (far left) and Don Arden and his mom Lillian (second from proper) and sister Jean
After having daughter Aimee, now 38, in 1983, Osbourne and Sharon went on to have Kelly, 37, in 1984, and Jack, 36, in 1985. Above: The household are pictured shortly after the start of Jack
A portrait of Ozzy Osbourne, dressed as a Fifties housewife, ironing his daughter Aimee in 1983. Aimee is now much less high-profile than her siblings Jack and Kelly, after refusing to seem in actuality TV hit The Osbournes
Osbourne is pictured together with his then new child son Jack in 1985, six years after he had been thrown out of Black Sabbath as a consequence of his antics
Osbourne is pictured with daughter Aimee on vacation in France in 1984 – 5 years after he had been thrown out of Black Sabbath
Osbourne has two older kids from his marriage to first spouse Thelma Riley. Above: Osbourne with son Louis in 2009
Previous to his union with Sharon, Osbourne had been married to first spouse Thelma Riley for 11 years, from 1971 till 1982. The pair had kids Jessica and Louis collectively, while Osbourne additionally adopted Thelma’s son Eliot (pictured proper)
Osbourne later mentioned that his first marriage had been a mistake due to his fixed touring and drug abuse. He additionally admitted to being ‘abusive’ to Thelma (pictured above with the singer within the Seventies
Osbourne is seen together with his kids from his first marriage, Jessica and Louis. The pair have largely remained out of the highlight regardless of their father’s fame
Osbourne with daughters Kelly and Aimee, spouse Sharon and son Jack in 2002 – the 12 months that the household’s present The Osbournes started
Kelly Osbourne, Ozzy Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne and Jack Osbourne attend the Pleasure of Britain awards at The Grosvenor Home Lodge on September 28, 2015 in London
It was whereas in jail that Osbourne gave himself his first tattoo: ‘OZZY’ in capital letters on the knuckles of his left hand.
He fashioned his first band, Uncommon Breed, at 19 with bassist Geezer Butler.
When the pair fell out with their bandmates, they joined Iommi and Ward to arrange Black Sabbath in 1968, which was first named Earth.
They renamed the band in 1969 in tribute to their favorite horror movie. The transfer set Osbourne, Iommi and Ward on the trail to heavy metallic royalty.
The group rapidly established a fame for dabbling with satanic and occult themes. One early critic wrote: ‘His baroque prophesies of doom had been uttered towards a background of a uniquely heavy guitar sound.’
Their first album, which was merely referred to as Black Sabbath, opened with the sound of a tolling church bell and featured the lyrics: ‘Go away the Earth to Devil and his slaves’.
It was this darkish theme that prompted the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger – who went on to develop into the Pope – to sentence the self-styled Prince of Darkness for his ‘subliminal satanic affect’ and urge him to cease performing ‘satanic rituals’ at live shows as a result of they might ‘deliver hurt’ to audiences.
Black Sabbath’s second album, Paranoid, featured a few of their greatest business hits, together with Iron Man, Struggle Pigs and the title monitor.
The band continued their success with 5 consecutive platinum-selling albums within the US in three years.
Black Sabbath’s affect on music itself was monumental. They introduced a heavy metallic style that had been in its infancy once they started to the eye of thousands and thousands of followers.
Their affect was so wide-ranging that critics have even argued that particular person songs – similar to 1970’s Electrical Funeral and 1971 hit Youngsters of the Grave – helped to type sub-genres of metallic.
This was even if guitarist Iommi had – years earlier than Black Sabbath was fashioned – misplaced two of his fingertips in an accident on the sheet metallic manufacturing unit the place he labored.
It meant that he needed to compensate by sporting plastic fingertips and slackening the strings of his instrument.
However Iommi turned that trauma to his benefit by producing a particular sound that ran by way of the band’s songs.
Talking in a 2005 interview, fellow heavy metallic musician Rob Zombie outlined the band’s affect.
‘Each cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. Something everybody else does is simply principally ripping it off. Both you are taking part in it barely completely different or quick or gradual, however… they did every thing already,’ he mentioned.
Ozzy Osbourne, debating the deserves of Black Sabbath’s new album ‘Sabotage’ at Bronze Data places of work, 1975
Osbourne with Butler (left) and Iommi within the Seventies. Black Sabbath revolutionised the heavy metallic style, making themselves in style with thousands and thousands of followers
Black Sabbath’s first album was given the identical title because the band. It was launched in 1970 reached quantity eight on the UK Albums Charts and quantity 23 on the US Billboard 200. Paranoid (proper) adopted later that 12 months
The band’s third album, Grasp of Actuality, got here in 1971. It included tracks similar to Candy Leaf and Youngsters of the Grave
Osbourne (centre) is pictured with Black Sabbath bandmates Invoice Ward (left), Tony Iommi (second from proper) and Geezer Butler in 1975
Osbourne with Black Sabbath bandmates Iommi, Butler and Ward in 1976, the 12 months that the band launched album Technical Ecstasy
Osbourne posing for a publicity photograph together with his Black Sabbath bandmates in 1970, the 12 months after they modified their title from Earth
Osbourne infamously bit the top off a bat throughout a efficiency in Iowa in 1982 (left). Proper: The singer posing with a faux bat between his tooth
Black Sabbath signed Don Arden as their supervisor after the surprising success of Paranoid. The choice was a life altering one for Ozzy who who would go on to marry Sharon, Arden’s daughter, on July 4, 1982.
He intentionally selected the US’s Independence Day so he would always remember the anniversary.
After having daughter Aimee, now 38, in 1983, the couple went on to have Kelly, 37, in 1984, and Jack, 36, in 1985.
Previous to his union with Sharon, Osbourne had been married to first spouse Thelma Riley for 11 years, from 1971 till 1982.
The pair had kids Jessica and Louis collectively, while Osbourne additionally adopted Thelma’s son Elliot.
Osbourne later mentioned that his first marriage had been a mistake due to his fixed touring and drug abuse.
He additionally admitted to being ‘abusive’ to Thelma. He mentioned later: ‘I used to be completely abusive to my first spouse. Bodily abuse, psychological abuse – you title it, I did it.
‘I hit her large time and I used to be an entire fool.’
Osbourne is pictured displaying off a tattoo in 1990. The singer had by then been out of Black Sabbath for greater than a decade
Osbourne throughout solo performances in 1985 (left) and 1990 (proper). The singer solid a profitable solo profession after being turfed out of Black Sabbath
A Every day Mail article from 1984 delved into the singer’s antics on the time, together with how he had been banned from six American cities
Osbourne’s troubles with alcohol and medicines reached disaster level in 1989, when Osbourne tried to strangle Sharon and he was arrested
As Black Sabbath grew to become extra in style, Ozzy’s drug downside grew to become more and more disruptive. He was fired in 1979 after the band determined his habit made him too unreliable.
After being sacked Ozzy was devastated and spiralled uncontrolled. He mentioned: ‘I would obtained £96,000 for my share of the title, so I’d simply locked myself away and spent three months doing coke and booze.
‘My pondering was, ‘That is my final occasion, as a result of after this I am going again to Birmingham and the dole’.’
However Ozzy was supplied a solo deal by his former supervisor, who tasked Sharon with taking care of him. His first album, Blizzard of Ozz, was a business hit and included the only Loopy Practice.
Ozzy wished to launch doves into the sky as an indication of peace after signing the deal. However, in typical Ozzy fashion, he was excessive on the assembly with report executives and as an alternative bit a dove’s head off.
A 12 months later, he was within the headlines for the improper causes once more.
In an effort to cease him occurring drunken walks, Sharon determined to cover Ozzy’s garments however he was undeterred and wore her costume to exit.
Ozzy finally wanted the bathroom and urinated on the Cenotaph on the Alamo, the sight of a historic battle in Texas. He was rapidly arrested and banned from San Antonio for a decade.
Sharon got here up with the concept for the fly-on-the-wall documentary about her household that was filmed at their Beverly Hills house. It proved a serious hit for US community MTV, working between 2002 and 2005. Aimee nonetheless refused to participate and criticised her dad and mom for his or her antics, even if the present gained an Emmy for Excellent Actuality Programme
The present lined the aftermath of Osbourne’s quad bike crash at his UK house in 2003. His coronary heart stopped beating and he additionally broke his collar bone, eight ribs and neck vertebra
Ozzy Osbourne using a quad bike on his property in Buckinghamshire within the Nineteen Eighties. The hellraiser pushed his thrill in search of to the bounds
The Every day Mail’s unique reporting of Osbourne’s quad bike crash, which was witnessed by his kids, famous how he practically misplaced his arm
The notorious biting off the top of a bat got here originally of 1982, throughout a efficiency in Des Moines, Iowa.
A fan had thrown the useless creature on stage and Osbourne, believing it was faux, bit into it. He needed to be handled with a sequence of painful rabies pictures.
His troubles with alcohol and medicines reached disaster level in 1989, when Osbourne tried to strangle Sharon.
He later mentioned that Sharon wouldn’t simply ‘sit down and take’ his bodily abuse, however would ‘return it knock for knock’.
She agreed to not press costs after the strangling episode and the singer was launched on the understanding that he entered rehabilitation for his habit issues.
But it surely was from this darkish episode {that a} turning level got here in Osbourne’s chaotic life.
Sharon forgave her husband’s violent episodes and helped remodel him from a pariah to a music legend.
This was regardless of his admissions to having cheated on her with Black Sabbath groupies.
One testomony to her efforts was the creation of the annual Ozzfest pageant within the Nineteen Nineties, which proved massively profitable.
Sharon too got here up with the concept for the fly-on-the-wall documentary about her household that was filmed at their Beverly Hills house.
It proved a serious hit for US community MTV, working between 2002 and 2005. Aimee nonetheless refused to participate and criticised her dad and mom for his or her antics, even if the present gained an Emmy for Excellent Actuality Programme.
It lined main occasions together with Sharon’s 2002 colon most cancers analysis and Osbourne’s quad bike crash in 2003. Sharon survived the most cancers battle regardless of a poor prognosis.
Osbourne admitted that he ‘fell aside’ throughout his spouse’s therapy, while Jack tried to take his personal life because of the affect of his mom’s situation on his psychological well being.
The quad bike crash occurred at his UK house in Buckinghamshire. The star’s coronary heart stopped beating and he additionally broke his collar bone, eight ribs and neck vertebra.
The signal of Sharon’s essential affect got here when Osbourne mentioned later: ‘If it wasn’t for Sharon I would be useless by now, for sure.
‘Profession-wise, I might positively be useless – and I might virtually definitely have been bodily useless as properly.
‘She was the primary particular person in my life who ever got here alongside and gave me any encouragement.’
He added: ‘She made me develop up, and I simply fell in love along with her as a result of she’s nice. She sorted out all of the enterprise as a result of, with enterprise, I love to do as little as doable.’
Together with Iommi, Osbourne carried out Paranoid – Black Sabbath’s most well-known tune – on the Queen’s Golden Jubilee live performance at Buckingham Palace in 2002. Osbourne was shocked by the invitation to seem. ‘I hardly consider myself as royal materials,’ he mentioned. ‘My spouse informed me, and I assumed ‘You are pulling my leg.” Above: The star assembly The Queen through the occasion
Ozzy and Sharon are seen placing their love for one another on show on the Pleasure of Britain awards in 2017. The singer repeatedly mentioned how his life-style would have killed him if it wasn’t for his spouse’s assist
Osbourne and Sharon turned themselves and their kids into TV stars with their documentary The Osbournes. Above: The singer with Sharon and Kelly in 2020
Sharon has solid her personal profession as a TV star, most famously as a choose on hit expertise present the X Issue. She now hosts chat present The Discuss on Discuss TV.
Osbourne rejoined Black Sabbath in 1997 after he and the band’s different members had carried out collectively at Ozzfest that 12 months.
Together with Iommi, Osbourne carried out Paranoid – Black Sabbath’s most well-known tune – on the Queen’s Golden Jubliee live performance at Buckingham Palace in 2002.
Osbourne was shocked by the invitation to seem. ‘I hardly consider myself as royal materials,’ he mentioned. ‘My spouse informed me, and I assumed ‘You are pulling my leg.”
In 2013, he helped to report the group’s remaining studio album, 13, which was launched in 2013, after the band’s unique line-up had gotten again collectively in 2011.
Their farewell tour – titled The Finish – was delivered to an in depth with a efficiency in Birmingham in 2017.
Afterwards, Osbourne continued performing as a solo act, together with his most up-to-date album launch, Abnormal Man, coming in February 2020.
Nonetheless, his well being issues continued to hang-out him. He needed to cancel reveals in 2019 after a fall left him needing surgical procedure on his neck.
Sharon is seen along with her husband and daughter Kelly in Los Angeles in 2020. The singer was by then affected by Parkinson’s illness
Black Sabbath’s solo tour – The Finish – noticed them carry out in areas the world over. Above: Osbourne with Butler, Iommi and Tommy Clufetos, who stuffed in for unique drummer Ward
The band’s farewell tour – titled The Finish – was delivered to an in depth with a efficiency in Birmingham in 2017. Above: The duvet of the band’s final album, 13
After Black Sabbath carried out their remaining tour, Osbourne continued performing as a solo act, together with his most up-to-date album launch, Abnormal Man, coming in February 2020. Above: The singer on stage on the American Music Awards in 2019
Osbourne is pictured consuming an ice cream in hospital after his June 2022 operation, which his spouse Sharon would ‘decide the remainder of his life’
The frail star is pictured in Might 2022 shortly earlier than he went into hospital for his main again operation
He started to expertise numbness which he thought was linked to his accident however in January 2020 Osbourne was recognized with Parkinson’s illness.
His son Jack, who was recognized with a number of sclerosis in 2012, was one of many first to grasp one thing was improper.
The star underwent main spinal surgical procedure in June 2022, which Sharon later mentioned had been successful.
In an replace on Instagram, she mentioned: ‘Our household wish to categorical a lot gratitude for the overwhelming quantity of affection and help main as much as Ozzy ‘s surgical procedure!’
‘Ozzy is doing properly and on the street to restoration! Your love means the world to him.’
To assist him get better, the household lodged plans for a rehab wing at their Buckinghamshire mansion.
The extension was to characteristic a self-contained nurse’s flat in addition to ‘discreet seize rails and aids’ and ‘an abundance of stopping and sitting areas’.
The plans additionally included a ‘well being and train studio’ in addition to a ‘pool home orangery’ and ‘backyard room’.
In September 2023, he had one more operation, this time on his neck as soon as once more. He mentioned afterwards that it was his ‘final process’.
Talking on Piers Morgan Uncensored, he added: ‘I am unable to consider I’ve come to the top of it. The principle factor is over now, I am finished with the surgical procedure.’
The dialog mirrored a permanent curiosity in one in all Britain’s most well-known music stars.
Talking in 1996 about what his epitaph may be, Osbourne summed up his life in just some phrases.
‘The factor is, no matter else I do, my epitaph shall be ‘Ozzy Osbourne, born December 3, 1948. Died, every time. And he bit the top off a bat’.’
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