Ozzy Osbourne
English musician and television personality (1948-2025) · United Kingdom · Musicians · Died at 76
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Something wrong?The man who bit the head off a bat and helped invent heavy metal. Black Sabbath's original frontman turned reality TV patriarch, he spent five decades ricocheting between the stage, the tabloids, and the brink - and sold over 100 million records doing it.
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Ordinary ManAlbum2018Live Montreal '81 King Biscuit Flower HourAlbum2014Grammy Award for Best Metal PerformanceAwardMTV Europe Music Award for Global IconAward2010
ScreamAlbum2005Under CoverAlbum2001
Down to EarthAlbum2000“All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music.”In their wordsGuitar World Issue 37, 2000Grammy Award for Best Metal PerformanceAward1998“I keep hearing this [expletive] thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people.”In their words28 June 1998SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1998: QUESTIONS FOR; Ozzy Osbourne New York Times.1997One Up the B‐SidesAlbum1995
OzzmosisAlbum1994Grammy Award for Best Metal PerformanceAward1992
No More Tears Demo SessionsAlbum1991No More TearsAlbum1986
The Ultimate SinAlbum1983
Bark at the MoonAlbum1981
Diary of a MadmanAlbum1980
Blizzard of OzzAlbum1948Born3 December 1948Also in Deutsch
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Black Sabbath in the mid-1970s. L-R: Tony Iommi, Osbourne, Bill Ward, Geezer Butler
Osbourne performing at California Jam in Ontario, California, 1974
Osbourne in 1975
Ozzy Osbourne band in 1980, then known as "Blizzard of Ozz". L-R: Bob Daisley, Lee Kerslake, Osbourne, Randy Rhoads
Osbourne performing in 1982
Ozzy Osbourne band in 1986. L-R: Randy Castillo, Phil Soussan, Osbourne, Jake E. LeeIn their own words 10
, All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music.
I keep hearing this [expletive] thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people.
I am a new and reformed Christian follower, I Love God
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John Michael Osbourne co-founded Black Sabbath in 1968 and spent the 1970s as the voice behind Paranoid, Master of Reality, and six other albums that laid the blueprint for metal. Fired in 1979 for substance problems, he launched a solo career the next year with guitarist Randy Rhoads, releasing Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman - the first two of thirteen studio albums, seven certified multi-platinum in the U.S. His onstage antics drew accusations of Satanism from the Christian right; offstage, he became a household name all over again when The Osbournes aired on MTV from 2002 to 2005. He rejoined Black Sabbath twice, the second time yielding the album 13 and a farewell tour that closed in 2017. On 5 July 2025, citing health issues, he played what he announced would be his final show in Birmingham. He died seventeen days later.
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