Tag: Ozzy Osbourne

Jack Osbourne has revealed that the late Ozzy Osbourne is visiting his entire family in their dreams. Osbourne passed away in July, just weeks after he took to the stage for the final time with Black Sabbath for Back to the Beginning at Villa Park in Birmingham. His cause of death was later ruled to […]

The Ozzy Osbourne: Working Class Hero exhibition in Birmingham has been extended due to high demand. It opened at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on June 25th to coincide with Black Sabbath’s farewell show, Back to the Beginning, which took place at Villa Park in early July just weeks before Osbourne’s passing. Initially, it […]

Most musicians would use a satanic invitation to perform as perhaps the headline story of their memoirs. For Black Sabbath, it was just another day. Such were the life and times of Ozzy Osbourne, along with the rest of his band, that this bizarre tale almost went under the radar because it paled in comparison […]

There will never be another artist with half the career that Ozzy Osbourne had. ‘The Prince of Darkness’ was certainly a lot more eccentric than the average rock and roll frontman, but while it’s easy to see him as either a sinister figure or the lovable dad on The Osbournes, both of them were caricatures […]

Ozzy Osbourne, or as he also liked to be called, the Prince of Darkness, gained notoriety after he became the lead singer of Black Sabbath in 1967. At 14, he heard The Beatles’ song ‘She Loves You’ for the first time and knew from that moment that “I was going to be a rock star […]

When Black Sabbath started making music, they carved out a new path for rock, one which celebrated much heavier and aggressive music. The reason why everyone was so heartbroken when Ozzy Osbourne passed away wasn’t just because he was a great musician, but he was also instrumental in making alternative-sounding music more mainstream, and a […]

Rock and roll has never been about achieving perfection. Even though bands can spend years trying to chase after one distinct sound, there’s a good chance that they are better off making something that’s from the heart than what’s technically perfect. Although Ozzy Osbourne had more than his fair share of rough times both in […]

When Ozzy Osbourne first struck out on his own, he needed a lot more than a couple of decent songs. Being a solo hard rock singer after being trashed from a band was a pipe dream half the time, and it wasn’t clear whether he was going to sink like a stone or become one […]