Osbourne was born in Aston, barely a back garden away from Aston Villa FC – a football club he loved and where he would end his musical career just three weeks ago in a final concert at which Black Sabbath reunited.
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Initially, they were called Earth Blues Company – but later changed to Black Sabbath after Osbourne wrote a song with that title, having been inspired by a Boris Karloff film of the same name.
Black Sabbath backstage at London Music Festival ’73 at Alexandra Palace L-R Tony Iommi, Bill Ward, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler. (Photo credit: Watal Asanuma/Shinko Music/Getty Images)
Black Sabbath’s sound, epitomised in songs such as ‘Paranoid’ and ‘War Pigs,’ struck a chord not only in the UK but also in the US. Their albums sold in the millions, and their success put them at the very forefront of heavy metal.
Very few bands in music history can quite so directly claim to have inspired an entire music genre. In their wake came Iron Maiden; Guns ‘n’ Roses; Nine Inch Nails; Slipknot.
His album Blizzard Of Ozz, released in 1980, was a massive hit and featured two of his most revered songs, ‘Crazy Train’ and ‘Mr Crowley’. But on the subsequent tour, he bit the head off a bat on stage at a gig in Des Moines, Iowa. The year before, he had stunned CBS Records executives by similarly decapitating a dove at their offices.
Ozzy Osbourne and his wife and longtime manager, Sharon Osbourne (Photo credit: Joe KLAMAR / AFP)It was also around this time that – according to Motley Crue’s bassist Nikki Sixx, with whom he was touring – Osbourne snorted a line of ants up his nose.
During the 1990s, his fame began to wane, in the wake of grunge – another low-fi, hard-edged sound centred on a very certain city, this time Seattle.
The show was a massive hit. By now in his 50s, Osbourne became a star amongst young people all over again, his Birmingham-twanged shout of “Sharaaaaan!” the stuff of the playground as much as parody shows. He even got an extended part in an Austin Powers movie off the back of it.
Unable to stand due to Parkinson’s disease, Osbourne performed Black Sabbath’s farewell show from a black throne (Photo credit: REUTERS/Sachin Ravikumar)Osbourne was once again at the vanguard of a new genre – this time, the reality TV show.
Having struggled with illness and injury through the 2010s, in 2024, Osbourne was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for a second time – one of the few to be given the honour.
Birmingham’s industrial legacy may now be gone, but as long as there is heavy metal, it will always be a part of the sound of the world – thanks to Ozzy Osbourne.
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