Black Sabbath leader, Ozzy Osbourne, dead at 76

Ozzy Osbourne, the heavy metal singer and leader of Black Sabbath whose star turned on reality television attracted him to a new generation of fans, has died, according to Associated Press. He was 76 years old.

The news of Osbourne’s death occurs 17 days after making his Final show In Birmingham, England, along with its former Black Sabbath bandmates at Back to the Beginning Benefit.

I had also recently announced a new memory entitled “Last rites“That was due on October 7 through Grand Central Publishing.

Osbourne was previously diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2019 and said in an interview then With “Good morning America” that had been “terribly challenging.”

“It’s Prkn 2,” said his wife Sharon at that time. “There are so many different types of Parkinson’s. It is not a death sentence due to any stretch of the imagination, but it affects certain nerves in your body. And it is, it is as if you had a good day, one day and then a really bad day.”

In 1968, Birmingham’s native, United Kingdom, co -founded Black Sabbath with guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward. The band helped define the metal genre, thanks in large part to the voices of another Osbourne world in classic songs such as “Iron Man”, “Paranoid” and “War Pigs”. Osbourne also gained notoriety for her exploits often fed by drugs and alcohol. His personality and mischief earned him the prince of the prince of darkness and the Madman metal.

After a decade with the group, Osbourne was fired from Sabbath, supposedly for his substance abuse.

However, he soon launched a solo race that, with the initial help of the virtuoso guitarist Randy Rhoads, was more successful than Black Sabbath. Among the memorable melodies of Osbourne of the 80s are “Crazy Train”, “Flying High Again”, “Shot in the Dark”, “Bark at The Moon” and “No More Tears”. In 1988, Osbourne scored a success among the 10 best in the Billboard Hot 100 with “Close My Eyes Forever”, a duo with the former Runaway guitarist, Lita Ford.

Over the years, Osbourne occasionally met with Black Sabbath, while he focused mainly on his solo efforts. In 1996, the wife and manager of Osbourne, Sharon, launched Ozzfest, an annual hard rock festival and a tour that Osbourne has regularly headed alone or with Saturday.

In the early 2000s, the singer found a completely new audience when he starred in Sharon and two of his children, Jack and Kelly, in the successful MTV reality series “The Osbournes”, which worked from 2002 to 2005. He and his son Jack joined again for another reality show, “Ozzy” Ozzy “Ozzy” Ozzy “Ozzy” & Jack’s World Detour “, which debuted in 2016.

In 2006, Osbourne was included in La Roca & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Black Sabbath. The band, less Ward, gathered to record a final studio album, “13”, which was launched in 2013. The group launched a farewell tour called The End that was held from January 2016 to February 2017.

Osbourne then renamed in his solo career and launched the departure of No More Tours II, which sought to be his last final trip. At the beginning of 2019, he fought against an upper respiratory infection and pneumonia that forced him to postpone his legs in the United Kingdom and Europe, and cancel dates in Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

In an exclusive interview with “Good Morning America”, the rocker said that at the time of Diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, he also had a bad fall that required surgery in his neck.

The fall finally led to three spinal surgeries, none of which the injury completely relieved, Osbourne said. He canceled his 2023 European tour and announced that he had ended up touring forever due to his back problems.

“My only purpose during this time has been to return to the stage,” he wrote about social networks At the moment. “My singing voice is fine. However, after three operations, stem cell treatments, endless physiotherapy sessions and innovative cyber treatment (HAL), more recently, my body is still physically weak.”

In 2022, Osbourne closed the Commonwealth Games in his hometown of Birmingham that August with Iommi on the guitar. The place was just five minutes by car where Osbourne went to school, he told “GMA” in September 2022.

“If someone had told me when I was 14 years old outside those doors of the school, ‘you will be closing the Commonwealth games,’ it was alone, my life has been incredible. And those things have happened,” Osbourne said at that time.

At 74, Osbourne won Grammy for the best metal performance for the song “Degradation rules” along with IOMMI on the guitar. The song came from its 13th studio album, “Patient number 9”, which also won an album Grammy for Best Rock and rose to No. 3 on the United States lists and No. 2 in the United Kingdom after its launch in September 2022.

Osbourne won five Grammy Awards as a solo artist, while Black Sabbath won two Grammy Awards and an Lifeime Achievement Award in 2019.

Osbourne married his second wife, Sharon, in 1982 and had three children, Aimee, Kelly and Jack. Although Aimee decided not to appear in “The Osbournes”, Sharon, Kelly and Jack Osbourne appeared at all times and paved the way for future family centered on the family as “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.”

The singer was previously married to Thelma Riley from 1971 to 1982. He had two children with his first wife, Jessica and Louis. He also adopted his son Elliot from a previous marriage.