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Ozzy Osbourne
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (3 December
1948 – 22 July 2025) was an English singer, Ozzy Osbourne
songwriter, and media personality who co-
founded the heavy metal band Black Sabbath in
1968, and rose to prominence in the 1970s as its
lead vocalist. During this period, he adopted the
nickname "Prince of Darkness".[6][7] The band
pioneered heavy metal music, particularly with
their critically-acclaimed albums Black Sabbath,
Paranoid (both 1970) and Master of Reality
(1971).

Osbourne was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979

due to his problems with alcohol and other drugs.
He then began a successful solo career with
Blizzard of Ozz in 1980 and released thirteen
studio albums, the first seven of which were
certified multi-platinum in the United States. In
Osbourne in 2010
the 1980s, Osbourne drew controversy for his
antics both onstage and offstage, and was accused Born John Michael Osbourne
of promoting Satanism by the Christian right. He 3 December 1948
reunited with Black Sabbath on several occasions. Marston Green, Warwickshire,
He rejoined from 1997 to 2005, and again in England
2012; during this second reunion he sang on the Died 22 July 2025 (aged 76)
band's last studio album, 13 (2013), before they Jordans, Buckinghamshire,
embarked on a farewell tour that ended in 2017. England[1][2]
On 5 July 2025, Osbourne performed his final Other names Prince of Darkness · Godfather
show at the Back to the Beginning concert in of Heavy Metal
Birmingham amid health issues, having
Occupations Singer · songwriter · media
announced that the concert would be his last
personality
show. Although he announced intention to
continue recording music, he died 17 days later, Spouses Thelma Riley
on 22 July. (m. 1971; div. 1982)
Sharon Arden (m. 1982)
Osbourne sold more than 100 million albums,
Children 6, including Aimee, Kelly and
including his solo work and Black Sabbath
Jack[3]
releases.[8][9] He was inducted into the Rock and
Musical career
Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Black Sabbath
in 2006 and as a solo artist in 2024. He was also Origin Aston, Birmingham, England
inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame both Genres Heavy metal[4] · hard rock[5]
solo and with Black Sabbath in 2005. He was Years active 1967–2025
honoured with stars on the Hollywood Walk of
Labels Epic · CBS · Jet

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Fame and Birmingham Walk of Stars. At the 2014 Formerly of Black Sabbath
MTV Europe Music Awards, he received the Website ozzy.com (http://ozzy.com)
Global Icon Award. In 2015, he received the Ivor
Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Signature
British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and
Authors.

Osbourne's wife and manager Sharon founded the

heavy metal touring festival Ozzfest, which was held yearly from 1996 to 2010. In the early
2000s, he became a reality television star when he appeared in the MTV reality show The
Osbournes (2002–2005) alongside Sharon and two of their children, Kelly and Jack. He co-
starred with some of his family in the television series Ozzy & Jack's World Detour (2016–
2018) as well as The Osbournes Want to Believe (2020–2021).

Early life
John Michael Osbourne was born at the maternity hospital in Marston Green (then in
Warwickshire) on 3 December 1948,[10] and grew up in the Aston area of Birmingham.[11][12]
His mother, Lilian (née Unitt; 1916–2001), was a non-observant Catholic who worked at a Lucas
factory.[13][14][15] His father, John Thomas "Jack" Osbourne (1915–1977), worked night shifts as
a toolmaker at the General Electric Company.[16][17] Osbourne had three older sisters named
Jean, Iris and Gillian, and two younger brothers named Paul and Tony.[18] The family lived in a
small two-bedroom home at 14 Lodge Road in Aston. Osbourne gained the nickname "Ozzy" as
a child.[19] He dealt with dyslexia at school.[20] His accent was described as "hesitant Brummie".
[21]

At the age of 11, Osbourne suffered sexual abuse from school bullies.[22] He said he attempted
suicide multiple times as a teenager.[23][24] He participated in school plays, including Gilbert
and Sullivan's The Mikado and H.M.S. Pinafore.[25] Upon hearing the first hit single of the
Beatles at age 14, he became a fan of the band and credited their 1963 song "She Loves You"
with inspiring him to become a musician.[17][26] In the 2011 documentary God Bless Ozzy
Osbourne, Osbourne said that the Beatles made him realise that "[he] was going to be a rock
star the rest of [his] life".[27]

Osbourne left school at the age of 15 and was employed as a construction site labourer, trainee
plumber, apprentice toolmaker, car factory horn-tuner and slaughterhouse worker. At the age of
17, he was convicted of robbing a clothes shop, but was unable to pay the fine; his father also
refused to pay it to teach him a lesson, resulting in Osbourne spending six weeks in Winson
Green Prison.[16][28]

Musical career

Black Sabbath
In late 1967, Geezer Butler formed his first band, Rare Breed, and recruited Osbourne to be the
singer.[19] The band played two shows and broke up. Osbourne and Butler reunited in another

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band, Polka Tulk Blues, which included guitarist Tony Iommi and drummer Bill Ward, whose
band Mythology had recently broken up. They renamed the band Earth, but after being
accidentally booked for a show instead of a different band with the same name, they decided to
change the band's name again, settling on the name Black Sabbath in August 1969. The band's
name was inspired by the film of the same title.[29] Black Sabbath noticed how people enjoyed
being frightened during their appearances, which inspired their decision to play a heavy blues
style of music laced with gloomy sounds and lyrics.[11] While recording their first album, Butler
read an occult book and woke up seeing a dark figure at the end of his bed. Butler told Osbourne
about it, and together they wrote the lyrics to "Black Sabbath", their first song in a darker vein.
[30][31]

The band's U.S. record label, Warner Bros. Records, invested

only modestly in it, but Black Sabbath met with swift and
enduring success. Built around Tony Iommi's guitar riffs,
Geezer Butler's lyrics, Bill Ward's dark tempo drumbeats, and
topped by Osbourne's eerie vocals, their debut album, Black
Sabbath, and second, Paranoid, were commercially
successful and also gained considerable radio airplay.
Osbourne recalled, however, that, "in those days, the band
wasn't very popular with the women".[19] At about this time,
Osbourne first met his future wife, Sharon Arden.[19] After
the unexpected success of their first album, Black Sabbath
were considering her father, Don Arden, as their new
Black Sabbath in 1972. L-R: Tony manager, and Sharon was at that time working as Don's
Iommi, Osbourne, Bill Ward, receptionist.[19] Osbourne admited he was attracted to her
Geezer Butler immediately but assumed that "she probably thought I was a
lunatic".[19] Osbourne later recalled that the best thing about
eventually choosing Don Arden as manager was that he got to
see Sharon regularly, though their relationship was strictly professional at that point.[19]

Just five months after the release of Paranoid, the band released Master of Reality. The album
reached the top ten in both the United States and UK, and was certified gold in less than two
months.[32] In the 1980s, it received platinum certification[32] and went Double Platinum in the
early 21st century.[32] Reviews of the album were unfavourable. Lester Bangs of Rolling Stone
famously dismissed Master of Reality as "naïve, simplistic, repetitive, absolute doggerel",
although the very same magazine would later place the album at number 298 on their
500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, compiled in 2003.[33]

In September 1972, Black Sabbath released Black Sabbath Vol. 4. Critics were dismissive of the
album; however, it reached gold status in less than a month and was the band's fourth
consecutive album to sell more than one million copies in the United States.[34][35] In
November 1973, Black Sabbath released the critically acclaimed Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. For
the first time, the band received favourable reviews in the mainstream press. Gordon Fletcher of
Rolling Stone called the album "an extraordinarily gripping affair" and "nothing less than a
complete success".[36] Decades later, AllMusic's Eduardo Rivadavia called the album a
"masterpiece, essential to any heavy metal collection", while also claiming the band displayed "a
newfound sense of finesse and maturity".[37] The album marked the band's fifth consecutive
platinum selling album in the United States.[38] Sabotage was released in July 1975. Again,

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there were favourable reviews. Rolling Stone stated, "Sabotage is not only Black Sabbath's best
record since Paranoid, it might be their best ever."[39] In a retrospective review, AllMusic was
less favourable, noting that "the magical chemistry that made such albums as Paranoid and
Volume 4 so special was beginning to disintegrate".[40] Technical Ecstasy, released on 25
September 1976, was also met with mixed reviews. AllMusic gives the album two stars, and
notes that the band was "unravelling at an alarming rate".[41]

Dismissal
Between late 1977 and early 1978,[42] Osbourne left the band for
three months to pursue a solo project called Blizzard of Ozz,[43] a
title which had been suggested by his father.[44] Three members
of the band Necromandus, who had supported Sabbath in
Birmingham when they were called Earth, backed Osbourne in
the studio and briefly became the first incarnation of his solo
band.[45]

At the request of the other band members, Osbourne rejoined

Sabbath.[46] The band spent five months at Sounds Interchange
Studios in Toronto, where they wrote and recorded their next
album, Never Say Die! "It took quite a long time", Iommi said of
Never Say Die! "We were getting really drugged out, doing a lot of
Osbourne performing at
dope. We'd go down to the sessions, and have to pack up because California Jam in Ontario,
we were too stoned; we'd have to stop. Nobody could get anything California, 1974
right; we were all over the place, and everybody was playing a
different thing. We'd go back and sleep it off, and try again the
next day."[47]

In May 1978, Black Sabbath began the Never Say Die! Tour with Van Halen as an opening act.
Reviewers called Sabbath's performance "tired and uninspired" in stark contrast to the
"youthful" performance of Van Halen, who were touring the world for the first time.[48] The
band recorded their concert at Hammersmith Odeon in June 1978, which was released on video
as Never Say Die. The final show of the tour and Osbourne's last appearance with Black Sabbath
for another seven years, until 1985, was in Albuquerque, New Mexico on 11 December.[49]

In 1979, Black Sabbath returned to the studio, but tension and conflict arose between band
members. Osbourne recalled being asked to record his vocals over and over, and tracks were
manipulated endlessly by Iommi.[50] The relationship between Osbourne and Iommi became
contentious. On 27 April 1979, at Iommi's insistence but with the support of Butler and Ward,
Osbourne was ejected from Black Sabbath.[19] The reasons provided to him were that he was
unreliable and had excessive substance abuse issues compared to the other members. Osbourne
maintained that his use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs at that time was similar to that of
the other members.[51]

The band replaced Osbourne with former Rainbow singer Ronnie James Dio.[31] In a 21 August
1987 interview with Tommy Vance on BBC Radio 1's Friday Rock Show, Dio said, "I was not,
and never will be, Ozzy Osbourne. He was the vocalist and songwriter in that era who helped
create that band and make it what it was, and what it is in its classic form."[52]

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The conflict between Iommi and Osbourne commenced almost immediately in their working
collaboration. Responding to a flyer that read, "Ozzy Zig Needs Gig- has own PA",[53] which was
posted by Osbourne in a record store, Iommi and Ward arrived at the listed address to speak
with Ozzy Zig, as he then called himself. When Iommi saw Osbourne emerge from another room
of the house, he recalled that he knew him as a "pest" from their school days.[19] Iommi recalls
one incident in the early 1970s in which Osbourne and Butler were fighting in a hotel room.
Iommi pulled Osbourne off Butler in an attempt to break up the drunken fight, and the vocalist
proceeded to turn around and take a wild swing at him. Iommi responded by knocking
Osbourne unconscious with one punch to the jaw.[54]

Black Sabbath reunions

Following two brief, short-set reunions for Live Aid in
1985 and at an Ozzy Osbourne show in Costa Mesa,
California, on 15 November 1992, Osbourne, Iommi and
Butler formally reunited as Black Sabbath in 1997 for
the 1997 Ozzfest shows.[55] Ward was absent due to
health issues.[55] In December 1997, all four members of
the band reunited to record the album Reunion, with
Osbourne also touring with the band again from 1997 to
1999 for the album's concert tour.[34][56][57][58] The
album proved to be a commercial success upon its
release in October 1998.[57]
Osbourne singing at Black Sabbath's The
End performance in Birmingham in The original Black Sabbath line-up of Ozzy, Tony
February 2017 Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward reunited in
November 2011 for a world tour and new album.[59]
Ward had to drop out for contractual reasons, so the
project continued with Rage Against the Machine's Brad Wilk stepping in for Ward on drums.
They played their first reunion concert in May 2012, at the O2 Academy in their hometown
Birmingham.[60] The album, entitled 13, was released on 11 June 2013,[61] and topped both the
UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200.[62][63]

In January 2016, the band began a farewell tour, titled "The End", supposedly signifying the
final performances of Black Sabbath.[64][65] The final shows of The End tour took place at the
Genting Arena in their home city of Birmingham on 2 and 4 February 2017, with Tommy
Clufetos replacing Bill Ward as the drummer for the final show.[66][67]

On 8 August 2022, Osbourne and Iommi made a surprise appearance during the closing
ceremony of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. This marked Osbourne's first live
performance in three years, following a period of ill health.[68][69]

Osbourne played his final show, billed as "Back to the Beginning", alongside the original line-up
of Black Sabbath, at Villa Park in Birmingham on 5 July 2025.[70] The band and Osbourne each
played a short set, watched by a crowd of more than 40,000 spectators and a peak livestream
audience of 5.8 million. Having been rendered unable to stand from Parkinson's disease,
Osbourne performed seated on a black throne.[71] All proceeds from the event will be donated
equally to The Cure Parkinson's Trust, Birmingham Children's Hospital, and Acorn Children's
Hospice.[72]

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Solo career

Signing to Jet records

After leaving Black Sabbath, Osbourne recalled, "I'd got
£96,000 for my share of the name, so I'd just locked
myself away and spent three months doing coke and
booze. My thinking was, 'This is my last party, because
after this I'm going back to Birmingham and the
dole."[73] However, Don Arden signed him to Jet
Records with the aim of recording new material. Arden
dispatched his daughter Sharon to Los Angeles to "look
after Ozzy's needs, whatever they were", to protect his
investment.[74] Arden initially hoped Osbourne would
Ozzy Osbourne band in 1980, then
return to Sabbath, who he was personally managing at known as "Blizzard of Ozz". L-R: Bob
that time, and later attempted to convince the singer to Daisley, Lee Kerslake, Osbourne, Randy
name his new band "Son of Sabbath", which Osbourne Rhoads
hated.[19] Sharon attempted to convince Osbourne to
form a supergroup with guitarist Gary Moore.[19] "When
I lived in Los Angeles", Moore recalled, "[Moore's band] G-Force helped him to audition
musicians. If drummers were trying out, I played guitar, and if a bassist came along, my
drummer would help out. We felt sorry for him, basically. He was always hovering around
trying to get me to join, and I wasn't having any of it."[75]

Blizzard of Ozz
In late 1979, under the management of the Ardens, Osbourne formed the Blizzard of Ozz,[76]
featuring bassist-lyricist Bob Daisley (of Rainbow and, later, Uriah Heep), guitarist Randy
Rhoads (of Quiet Riot), drummer Lee Kerslake (of Uriah Heep), and keyboardist Don Airey (of
Rainbow and, later, Deep Purple) as a session musician. The record company eventually titled
the group's debut album Blizzard of Ozz, credited simply to Osbourne, thus commencing his
solo career. Co-written with Daisley and Rhoads, it brought Osbourne considerable success on
his first solo effort. Though it is generally accepted that Osbourne and Rhoads started the band,
Daisley later claimed that he and Osbourne formed the band in England before Rhoads officially
joined.[77]

Blizzard of Ozz is one of the few albums among the 100 best-sellers of the 1980s to have
achieved multi-platinum status without the benefit of a top-40 single. As of August 1997, it had
achieved quadruple platinum status, according to RIAA.[78] "I envied Ozzy's career..." remarked
former Sabbath drummer Bill Ward. "He seemed to be coming around from whatever it was
that he'd gone through, and he seemed to be on his way again; making records and stuff... I
envied it because I wanted that... I was bitter. And I had a thoroughly miserable time."[79]

Diary of a Madman
Osbourne's second album, Diary of a Madman, featured more songs co-written with Lee
Kerslake. For his work on this album and Blizzard of Ozz, Rhoads[29] was ranked the 85th-
greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone magazine in 2003.[80] This album is known for the
singles "Over the Mountain" and "Flying High Again" and, as Osbourne explained in his

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autobiography, was his personal favourite.[19] Tommy Aldridge

and Rudy Sarzo soon replaced Kerslake and Daisley. Aldridge had
been Osbourne's original choice for drummer, but a commitment
to Gary Moore had made him unavailable.[74]

On 19 March 1982, the band was in Florida for its Diary of a

Madman tour, a week away from playing Madison Square Garden
in New York City. A light aircraft piloted by Andrew Aycock, the
band's tour bus driver, carrying Rhoads and Rachel Youngblood,
the band's costume and make-up designer, crashed while
performing low passes over the band's tour bus. The left wing of
the aircraft clipped the bus, causing the plane to graze a tree and
crash into the garage of a nearby mansion, killing Rhoads, Aycock,
Osbourne performing in 1982
and Youngblood. The crash was ruled the result of "poor
judgement by the pilot in buzzing the bus and misjudging
clearance of obstacles". [81] Experiencing first-hand the horrific death of his close friend and
bandmate, Osbourne fell into a deep depression. The tour was cancelled for two weeks while
Osbourne, Sharon, and Aldridge returned to Los Angeles to take stock while Sarzo remained in
Florida with family.[82]

Gary Moore was the first to be approached to replace Rhoads, but refused.[82] With a two-week
deadline to find a new guitarist and resume the tour, Robert Sarzo, brother of the band's bassist
Rudy Sarzo, was chosen to replace Rhoads. Former Gillan guitarist Bernie Tormé, however, flew
to California from England with the promise from Jet Records that he had the job. Once Sharon
realised that Jet Records had already paid Tormé an advance, he was reluctantly hired instead
of Sarzo. The tour resumed on 1 April 1982, but Tormé's blues-based style was unpopular with
fans. After a handful of shows he informed Sharon that he would be returning to England to
continue work on a solo album he had begun before coming to the United States.[83] At an
audition in a hotel room, Osbourne selected Night Ranger's Brad Gillis to finish the tour. The
tour culminated in the release of the 1982 live album Speak of the Devil, recorded at The Ritz in
New York City.[84][85] A live tribute album for Rhoads was also later released. Despite the
difficulties, Osbourne moved on after Rhoads' death. Speak of the Devil, known in the United
Kingdom as Talk of the Devil, was originally planned to consist of live recordings from 1981,
primarily from Osbourne's solo work. Under contract to produce a live album, it ended up
consisting entirely of Sabbath covers recorded with Gillis, Sarzo and Tommy Aldridge.[86]

In 1982, Osbourne appeared as lead vocalist on the Was

(Not Was) pop dance track "Shake Your Head (Let's Go
to Bed)". Remixed and rereleased in the early 1990s for
a Was (Not Was) hits album in Europe, it reached
number four on the UK Singles Chart.[87] In 1983, Jake
E. Lee, formerly of Ratt and Rough Cutt, joined
Osbourne to record Bark at the Moon. The album,
cowritten with Daisley, featured Aldridge and former
Rainbow keyboard player Don Airey. The album's title Ozzy Osbourne band in 1986. L-R:
track, whose video was partially filmed at Holloway Randy Castillo, Phil Soussan, Osbourne,
Jake E. Lee
Sanitorium outside London, became a fan favourite.
Within weeks the album became certified gold. It has

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sold three million copies in the United States.[88] 1986's The Ultimate Sin followed (with bassist
Phil Soussan[89] and drummer Randy Castillo), and touring behind both albums with former
Uriah Heep keyboardist John Sinclair joining prior to the Ultimate Sin tour. At the time of its
release, The Ultimate Sin was Osbourne's highest-charting studio album. The RIAA awarded the
album Platinum status on 14 May 1986, soon after its release; it was awarded Double Platinum
status on 26 October 1994.[90]

Jake E. Lee and Osbourne parted ways in 1987. Osbourne continued to struggle with chemical
dependency. That year, he commemorated the fifth anniversary of Rhoads' death with Tribute, a
collection of live recordings from 1981. In 1988, Osbourne appeared in The Decline of Western
Civilization Part II: The Metal Years and told the director Penelope Spheeris that "sobriety
fucking sucks". Meanwhile, Osbourne found Zakk Wylde, who was the most enduring
replacement for Rhoads to date.[91] Together, they recorded No Rest for the Wicked with
Castillo on drums, Sinclair on keyboards, and Daisley co-writing lyrics and playing bass. The
subsequent tour saw Osbourne reunited with erstwhile Black Sabbath bandmate Geezer Butler
on bass. A live EP (entitled Just Say Ozzy) featuring Geezer was released two years later. In
1988, Osbourne performed on the rock ballad "Close My Eyes Forever", a duet with Lita Ford,
reaching No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100.[92] In 1989, Osbourne performed at the Moscow
Music Peace Festival.[93]

No More Tears and Ozzmosis

Osbourne's commercial success of the 1980s continued with
1991's No More Tears, featuring "Mama, I'm Coming Home". The
album enjoyed much radio and MTV exposure. It also initiated a
practice of bringing in outsiders (in this case Lemmy Kilmister of
Motorhead) to help write Osbourne's material, instead of relying
on his recording ensemble. The album was mixed by veteran rock
producer Michael Wagener. Osbourne was awarded a 1994
Grammy for the track "I Don't Want to Change the World" from
Live & Loud, for Best Metal Performance.[94] Wagener also mixed
the live album Live & Loud released on 28 June 1993. Intended to
be Osbourne's final album, it went platinum four times over,[95]
and had a peak ranking of number 22 on the Billboard 200 chart.
[96]. In 1992, Osbourne expressed his fatigue with touring, and
Osbourne on tour in Japan in
proclaimed his "retirement tour" (the retirement was to be short- April 1999
lived), called "No More Tours", a pun on No More Tears.[97] Alice
in Chains' Mike Inez took over on bass and Kevin Jones played
keyboards as Sinclair was touring with the Cult.[98]

Osbourne's entire CD catalogue was remastered and reissued in 1995. The same year, Osbourne
released Ozzmosis and resumed touring, dubbing his concert performances "The Retirement
Sucks Tour". The album reached number 4 on the U.S. Billboard 200. The RIAA certified the
album gold and platinum in that same year, and double platinum in April 1999.[99]

The line-up on Ozzmosis was Wylde, Butler (who had just quit Black Sabbath again), Steve Vai,
and Hardline drummer Deen Castronovo, who later joined Journey. Keyboards were played by
Rick Wakeman and producer Michael Beinhorn.[100] The tour maintained Butler and
Castronovo and saw Sinclair return, but a major line-up change was the introduction of former

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David Lee Roth guitarist Joe Holmes. Wylde was considering an offer to join Guns N' Roses.
Unable to wait for a decision on Wylde's departure, Osbourne replaced him.[101] In early 1996,
Butler and Castronovo left. Inez and Randy Castillo (Lita Ford, Mötley Crüe) filled in.[102]
Ultimately, Faith No More's Mike Bordin and former Suicidal Tendencies and future Metallica
bassist Robert Trujillo joined on drums and bass respectively. A greatest hits package, The
Ozzman Cometh, was issued in 1997.[103]

Down to Earth
Down to Earth, Osbourne's first album of new studio
material in six years, was released on 16 October 2001.
A live album, Live at Budokan, followed in 2002. Down
to Earth, which achieved platinum status in 2003,
featured the single "Dreamer", a song which peaked at
number 10 on Billboard 's Mainstream Rock Tracks.[104]
In June 2002, Osbourne was invited to participate in
the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, performing
the Black Sabbath anthem "Paranoid" at the Party at the
Palace concert in the grounds of Buckingham Palace.
[105] In 2003, Osbourne recruited former Metallica
Osbourne with the Lord Mayor of
bassist Jason Newsted, though his time with Osbourne
Birmingham (right), receiving his
Birmingham Walk of Stars plaque in his
would be short. Osbourne's former bassist Robert
home city in July 2007 Trujillo replaced Newsted in Metallica during this same
period.[106]

On 8 December 2003, Osbourne was rushed into emergency surgery at Slough's Wexham Park
Hospital following an accident with his quad bike on his estate in Jordans, Buckinghamshire.
[107] Osbourne broke his collar bone, eight ribs, and a neck vertebra.[107] An operation was

performed to lift the collarbone, which was believed to be resting on a major artery and
interrupting blood flow to one of Osbourne's arms. Sharon later revealed that Osbourne had
stopped breathing following the crash and was resuscitated by Osbourne's then personal
bodyguard, Sam Ruston. While in hospital, Osbourne achieved his first ever UK number one
single, a duet of the Black Sabbath ballad, "Changes" with daughter Kelly.[108] In doing so, he
broke the record of the longest period between an artist's first UK chart appearance (with Black
Sabbath's "Paranoid", number four in August 1970) and their first number one hit: a gap of
33 years.[108] He recovered from the quad accident and went on to headline the 2004 Ozzfest,
with the reunited Black Sabbath.[109]

Box set release and Black Rain

In March 2005, Osbourne released a box set called Prince of Darkness. The first and second
discs are collections of live performances, B-sides, demos and singles. The third disc contained
duets and other odd tracks with other artists, including "Born to Be Wild" with Miss Piggy. The
fourth disc, is entirely new material where Osbourne covers his favourite songs by his biggest
influences and favourite bands, including the Beatles, John Lennon, David Bowie and others.
[110] In November 2005, Osbourne released the covers album Under Cover, featuring 10 songs

from the fourth disc of Prince of Darkness and 3 more songs.[111] Osbourne's band for this
album included Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell,[112] bassist Chris Wyse[112] and Faith No

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More drummer Mike Bordin.[112]

Osbourne also helped judge the 2005 UK series of the

X-Factor where his wife Sharon was one of the main
judges.[113] In March 2006, he said that he hoped to
release a new studio album soon with longtime on-off
guitarist, Zakk Wylde of Black Label Society.[114] In
October 2006, it was announced that Tony Iommi,
Ronnie James Dio, Bill Ward, and Geezer Butler would
Osbourne at BlizzCon in Anaheim,
be touring together again, though not as Black Sabbath
California, in 2009
but under the moniker "Heaven & Hell", the title of
Dio's first Black Sabbath album.[115]

Osbourne's next album, titled Black Rain, was released on 22 May 2007. His first new studio
album in almost six years, it featured a more serious tone than previous albums. "I thought I'd
never write again without any stimulation... But you know what? Instead of picking up the
bottle I just got honest and said, 'I don't want life to go [to pieces]' ", Osbourne stated to
Billboard magazine.[116]

Band changes and Scream

Osbourne revealed in July 2009 that he was currently seeking a
new guitar player. While he stated that he had not fallen out with
Zakk Wylde, he said he felt his songs were beginning to sound like
Black Label Society and fancied a change.[117] In August 2009,
Osbourne performed at the gaming festival BlizzCon with a new
guitarist in his line-up, Gus G.[118] Osbourne also provided his
voice and likeness to the video game Brütal Legend character The
Guardian of Metal.[119] In November, Slash featured Osbourne on
vocals in his single "Crucify the Dead",[120] and Osbourne with
wife Sharon were guest hosts on WWE Raw.[121] In December,
Osbourne announced he would be releasing a new album titled
Soul Sucka with Gus G, Tommy Clufetos on drums, and Blasko on
bass.[122] Negative fan feedback was brought to Osbourne's
Osbourne performing with attention regarding the album title. In respect of fan opinion, on
bassist Rob Nicholson in April 29 March Osbourne announced his album would be renamed
2013 Scream.[123]

On 13 April 2010, Osbourne announced the release date for

Scream would be 15 June 2010.[124] The release date was later changed to a week later. A single
from the album, "Let Me Hear You Scream", debuted on 14 April 2010 episode of CSI: NY.[125]

On 9 August 2010, Osbourne announced that the second single from the album would be "Life
Won't Wait" and the video for the song would be directed by his son Jack.[126] When asked of
his opinions on Scream in an interview, Osbourne announced that he was "already thinking
about the next album". Osbourne's current drummer, Tommy Clufetos, has reflected this
sentiment, saying that "We are already coming up with new ideas backstage, in the hotel rooms
and at soundcheck and have a bunch of ideas recorded".[127] In October 2014, Osbourne
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contained 17 singles from across his career, never before compiled together. The DVD version
contained music videos, live performances, and interviews.[128]

New music and touring

In August 2015, Epic Records president Sylvia Rhone confirmed with Billboard that Osbourne
was working on another studio album;[129][130][131][132] in September 2019, Osbourne
announced he had finished the album in four weeks following his collaboration with Post
Malone.[133][134] In April 2017, it was announced that guitarist Zakk Wylde would reunite with
Osbourne for a summer tour to mark the 30th anniversary of their first collaboration on 1988's
No Rest for the Wicked.[135] The first show of the tour took place on 14 July at the Rock USA
Festival in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.[136]

On 6 November 2017, Osbourne was announced as the headline act for the Sunday of the 2018
Download Festival held annually at Donington Park in Leicestershire, England. Having
previously graced the main stage in previous years fronting Black Sabbath, this would be his
first-ever Download headline solo appearance. The Download Festival set came as part of
Osbourne's final world tour announcement that morning.[137]

On 6 February 2018, Osbourne announced that he would embark on his final world tour dubbed
No More Tours II, a reference to his 1992 tour of the same name, with support from Stone Sour
on the North American portion of the tour.[138] He later insisted that he would not retire, "It's
'No More Tours', so I'm just not doing world tours anymore. I'm still going to be doing gigs, but
I'm not going on tour for six months at a time anymore. I'd like to spend some time at
home."[139]

On 6 September 2019, Osbourne featured on the song "Take What You Want" by Post Malone.
The song peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 charts at number 8, making it Osbourne's first US
Top 10 single in 30 years since he was featured on Lita Ford's "Close My Eyes Forever".[140]

Ordinary Man and Patient Number 9

On 21 February 2020, Osbourne released his first solo album in almost ten years, Ordinary
Man, which received positive reviews from music critics and debuted at number three on the
UK Albums Chart.[141][142] A few days after the release, Osbourne told iHeartRadio that he
wanted to make another album with Andrew Watt, the main producer of Ordinary Man.[143]
[144] One week after the release of the album, an 8-bit video game dedicated to Osbourne was

released, called Legend of Ozzy.[145] Following the release Osbourne then started working on
his follow up album, once again with Andrew Watt.[146] In November 2021, Sony announced
that Osbourne's album would be released within six months;[147] it was also announced that
Zakk Wylde will have full involvement in the album following his absence on Ordinary Man.
[148]

On 24 June 2022, Osbourne announced his thirteenth album would be titled Patient Number 9
and released the title track alongside an accompanying music video that same day. The album
was released on 9 September 2022.[149] Osbourne then had his first live performances in three
years with two brief concerts at sporting events: on 30 August, he performed "Iron Man" and
"Paranoid" at the 2022 Commonwealth Games closing ceremony in Birmingham, joined by
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[150][151]
and on 8 September, at the 2022 NFL Kickoff held at Inglewood's SoFi Stadium,
Osbourne performed both "Patient Number 9" and "Crazy Train", with his backing band being
Zakk Wylde, Tommy Clufetos, Chris Chaney and the album's producer Andrew Watt.[152]

No More Tours II tour

In January 2023, Osbourne announced that the European leg of the No More Tours II would be
cancelled after almost two years of being postponed. Osbourne effectively retired from touring,
citing his accident in 2019 which resulted in the singer suffering spinal damage, while affirming
his plan to continue smaller-scale live performances as his health permitted.[153][154] In
September 2023, he revealed that he was working on a new album with a planned 2024 release
while also preparing to go on the road following a successful spinal surgery earlier that month.
[155]

In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Osbourne at number 112 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of
All Time.[156]

Other works

Ozzfest
Osbourne's biggest financial success of the 1990s was a
venture named Ozzfest, created and managed by his
wife and manager Sharon and assisted by his son Jack,
after Ozzy was turned down by the organisers of the
Lollapalooza festival.[157][158] The first Ozzfest was held
in York, Pennsylvania, on 20 September 1996.[159]
Ozzfest was an instant hit with metal fans, helping many
up-and-coming groups who were featured there to
broad exposure and commercial success.[160] Some acts An Ozzfest concert poster (middle) on a
shared the bill with a reformed Black Sabbath during storefront door in Prague, Czech
the 1997 Ozzfest tour, with the first two shows in Republic, in Summer 2002

Bristow, Virginia and West Palm Beach, Florida.[161]

[162]

From its inception to 2005, more than four million people attended Ozzfest, and it grossed
more than US$170 million over the same period.[163] The festival helped promote many new
hard rock and heavy metal acts of the late 1990s and early 2000s.[164] Ozzfest helped Osbourne
to become the first hard rock and heavy metal star to hit $50 million in merchandise sales.[165]
In 2005, Osbourne and his wife Sharon starred in an MTV competition reality show entitled
Battle for Ozzfest. A number of yet unsigned bands send one member to compete in a challenge
to win a spot on the 2005 Ozzfest and a possible recording contract.[166][167] During Ozzfest
2005, after having missed several shows due to ill health, Osbourne announced that he was
retiring from the event.[168] He did in fact return to Ozzfest in 2006, but with a reduced
schedule, leaving many of the concerts to be closed by System of a Down instead of himself.[169]

Tickets for the 2007 tour were offered to fans free of charge, which led to some controversy.[170]

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In 2008, Ozzfest was reduced to a one-day event in Dallas, where Osbourne played, alongside
Metallica and King Diamond.[171] In 2010, the tour opened with a Jersey Shore spoof skit
starring Osbourne.[172] Osbourne appeared as the headliner closing the show after opening acts
Halford and Mötley Crüe. The tour, though small (only six US venues and one UK venue were
played), generated rave reviews.[173][174][175][176]

Production and television

Osbourne achieved greater celebrity status via his own
brand of reality television. The Osbournes, a series
featuring the domestic life of Osbourne and his family
(wife Sharon, children Jack and Kelly, occasional
appearances from his son Louis, but eldest daughter
Aimee did not participate). The programme became one
of MTV's greatest hits. It premiered on 5 March 2002,
and the final episode aired on 21 March 2005.[177]
Osbourne, flanked by Philadelphia Police
The success of The Osbournes led Osbourne and the rest Department officers, leaves Borders in
of his family to host the 30th Annual American Music Center City after signing copies of I Am
Awards in January 2003.[178][179] The night was marked Ozzy, his autobiography, in January
with constant "bleeping" due to some of the lewd and 2010.
raunchy remarks made by Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne.
Presenter Patricia Heaton walked out midway in
disgust.[180] On 20 February 2008, Ozzy, Sharon, Kelly
and Jack Osbourne hosted the 2008 BRIT Awards held
at Earls Court, London.[181] Ozzy appeared in a TV
commercial for I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! which
began airing in the UK in February 2006.[182]

Osbourne appears in a commercial for the online video

game World of Warcraft.[183] He was also featured in
the music video game Guitar Hero World Tour as a
playable character. He becomes unlocked upon Osbourne and his touring band in 2011.
completing "Mr. Crowley" and "Crazy Train" in the L-R:Adam Wakeman, Rob Nicholson,
Osbourne, Gus G, Tommy Clufetos
vocalist career. The 2002 dark fantasy combat flight
simulator Savage Skies was initially developed under
the title Ozzy's Black Skies and was to feature his likeness as well as songs from both his stint in
Black Sabbath as well as his solo career,[184][185] but licensing issues forced developer iRock
Interactive to re-tool the game and release it without the Osbourne branding.[186]

In October 2009, Osbourne published I Am Ozzy, his autobiography.[187] He said ghost writer
Chris Ayres told him he had enough material for a second book. A film adaptation of I Am Ozzy
is also in the works, and Osbourne said he hoped "an unknown guy from England" will get the
role over an established actor, while Sharon stated she would choose established English actress
Carey Mulligan to play her.[188]

A documentary film about Osbourne's life and career, entitled God Bless Ozzy Osbourne,
premiered in April 2011 at the Tribeca Film Festival and was released on DVD in November
2011.[189] The film was produced by Osbourne's son Jack.[190] On 15 May 2013 Osbourne,

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alongside the current members of Black Sabbath, appeared in an episode of CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation titled "Skin in the Game". The History Channel premiered a comedy reality
television series starring Ozzy Osbourne and his son Jack Osbourne on 24 July 2016, named
Ozzy & Jack's World Detour.[191] During each episode Ozzy and Jack visit one or more sites to
learn about history from experts, and explore unusual or quirky aspects of their background.

Osbourne appeared in a November 2017 episode of Gogglebox alongside other UK celebrities

such as Ed Sheeran, former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher, and Labour Party leader Jeremy
Corbyn as part of Channel 4 and Cancer Research UK's Stand Up to Cancer fundraising
campaign.[192] In November 2017, Osbourne signed on as an ambassador of the rock-themed
online Metal Casino, founded by metal music fans in August 2017.[193] In February 2019,
Osbourne's merchandising partner announced that Ozzy would have his own branded, online
slots game as part of the NetEnt Rocks music-themed portfolio.[194]

In 2020, Osbourne voiced King Thrash, king of the rock trolls, for the animated movie Trolls
World Tour.[195]

Controversies
Throughout his career, many religious groups accused Osbourne
of being a negative influence on teenagers, stating that his genre
of rock music has been used to glorify Satanism. Scholar
Christopher M. Moreman compared the controversy to those
levelled against the occultist Aleister Crowley. Both were
demonised by the media and some religious groups for their
antics. Although Osbourne tempted the comparison with his
1980 song "Mr. Crowley", he denied being a Satanist and it has
been reported that Osbourne was a member of the Church of
England who prayed before each concert.[196][197]

In 1981, after signing his first solo record deal, Osbourne bit the
head off a dove during a meeting with CBS Records executives in
Los Angeles.[198] Apparently, he had planned to release doves
into the air as a sign of peace, but due to intoxication, he instead
grabbed a dove and bit its head off. He then spat the head out,
[198][199] with blood still dripping from his lips. As security was
Osbourne in 1984
escorting Osbourne out of the building, he grabbed a second
dove and also bit its head off. Due to its controversy, the head-
biting act has been parodied and alluded to several times throughout his career and is part of
what made Osbourne famous.[200]

On 20 January 1982, Osbourne bit the head off a bat[202] that he

"I'm like the Dennis the thought was rubber while performing at the Veterans Memorial
Menace kind of crazy. Auditorium in Des Moines, Iowa. According to a 2004 Rolling
Fun crazy, I hope." Stone article, the bat was alive at the time;[203] however, 17-year-
old Mark Neal, who threw it onto the stage, said it was brought to
—Osbourne describing the show dead.[198] According to Osbourne in the booklet to the
himself in the British
2002 edition of Diary of a Madman, the bat was not only alive

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documentary, Hellraisers, but managed to bite him, resulting in Osbourne being vaccinated
Channel 4, 2000.[201]
against rabies. On 20 January 2019, Osbourne commemorated
the 37th anniversary of the bat incident by offering an "Ozzy
Plush Bat" toy "with detachable head" for sale on his personal web-store. The site claimed the
first batch of toys sold out within hours.[204]

On New Year's Eve 1983, Canadian teenager James Jollimore killed a woman and her two sons
in Halifax, Nova Scotia, after listening to "Bark at the Moon". A friend of Jollimore commented:
"Jimmy said that every time he listened to the song, he felt strange inside ... He said when he
heard it on New Year's Eve, he went out and stabbed someone".[205]

In 1984, California teenager John McCollum committed suicide while listening to Osbourne's
"Suicide Solution". The song deals with the dangers of alcohol misuse. McCollum's suicide led to
allegations that Osbourne promoted suicide in his songs. McCollum had clinical depression. His
parents sued Osbourne (McCollum v. CBS)[206] for their son's death, saying the lyrics in the
song, "Where to hide, suicide is the only way out. Don't you know what it's really about?"
convinced McCollum to commit suicide. The family's lawyer suggested that Osbourne should be
criminally charged for encouraging a young person to commit suicide, but the courts ruled in
Osbourne's favour, saying there was no connection between the song and McCollum's suicide.
Osbourne was similarly sued in 1991 (Waller v. Osbourne), by the parents of Michael Waller, for
$9 million, but the courts once again ruled in Osbourne's favour.[207]

In lawsuits filed in 2000 and 2002 which were dismissed by the courts in 2003, former band
members Bob Daisley, Lee Kerslake, and Phil Soussan stated that Osbourne was delinquent in
paying them royalties and had denied them due credit on albums they played on.[208][209] In
November 2003, a Federal Appeals Court unanimously upheld the dismissal by the US District
Court for the Central District of California of the lawsuit brought by Daisley and Kerslake. The
US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that Osbourne did not owe any royalties or
credit to the former band members, who were let go in 1981.[210] To resolve further issues,
management chose to replace Daisley and Kerslake's contributions on the original masters,
replacing them with Robert Trujillo on bass and Mike Bordin on drums. The albums were then
reissued.[211] The original tracks were restored for the 30th anniversary of the albums.

In July 2010, Osbourne and Tony Iommi decided to discontinue court proceedings over
ownership of the Black Sabbath trademark. As reported to Blabbermouth, "Both parties are glad
to put this behind them and to cooperate for the future and would like it to be known that the
issue was never personal, it was always business."[212]

Osbourne admitted to shooting 17 of his own pet cats during a drug-fuelled rampage in the
1980s.[213][214]

Personal life
Osbourne had more than 15 tattoos, the earliest of which were the letters O-Z-Z-Y across the
knuckles of his left hand. He created this himself as a teenager with a sewing needle and pencil
lead.[16]

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Osbourne stated, "My favourite movie is Monty Python's Life of

Brian".[215]

Osbourne suffered minor burns after a small house fire at his

family home in Beverly Hills in January 2013.[216]

On his 65th birthday on 3 December 2013, he asked fans to

celebrate his birthday by donating to the Royal Marsden cancer
charity in London.[217]

In 2002, Osbourne and wife Sharon were invited to the White

House Correspondents' Association dinner by Fox News
Channel correspondent Greta Van Susteren for that year's event.
President George W. Bush noted Osbourne's presence by joking,
"The thing about Ozzy is, he's made a lot of big hit recordings –
'Party with the Animals', 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath', 'Facing Hell', Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne at
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in March
'Black Skies' and 'Bloodbath in Paradise'. Ozzy, Mom loves your
2004
stuff."[218]

Religious beliefs
Though Osbourne had long been accused of being a Satanist, The New York Times reported in
1992 that he was a practising member of the Church of England and prayed before each show.
[219] Osbourne has also claimed to identify as a Christian an 1986 interview, in which he said

"I'm a Christian. I was christened as a Christian. I used to go to Sunday school. I never took
much interest in it because I didn't." And in a later 1992 interview, he said "I believe in God. I
don't go to church, but I don't think you have to go to church to believe in God."[220] In 2011
Osbourne wrote in Dr. Ozzy, his advice column in The Times, that he is not Jewish but he was
circumcised.[221]

Political Views
In 2009 Osbourne wrote that he couldn’t get over the fact that while British soldiers were dying
Iraq war, the British Prime Minister Tony Blair found time to hang around with pop stars.[222]
Jacob Held said that Osbourne was being anti war in general, but not a pacifist, and defended
what he viewed as using proportionate means in just wars. As an example, Held shows that in
the song War Pigs Osbourne sang against the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as
excessive, but in the song Thank God for the Bomb he supports the policy of nuclear deterrence
in the cold war.[223]

Osbourne was a life long supporter of Israel.[224][225][226] In 2024 he opposed a proposed

cultural boycott of Israel.[227] In 2025 he signed a letter against the BBC's alleged anti-Israeli
bias in the coverage of the Gaza War.[228] In 2024 he said that he doesn't want any association
with Kanye West, due to his antisemitism.[229]

Osbourne was critical of Trump’s response to Covid-19, saying that the president was “acting
like a fool”.[222] In 2020, after Trump used Osbourne's song in his campaign, Osbourne issued a
statement forbidding Trump, or any other campaign, from using his music without prior
approval. To which he added that maybe Trump should approach his musician friends like

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Kanye West.[222]

Relationships
Osbourne had six children; three from his first marriage and three from his marriage to Sharon
Osbourne.[3][230]

In 1971, Osbourne met his first wife Thelma Riley at the Rum Runner, the Birmingham
nightclub where she worked.[19] They were married later that year and children Jessica and
Louis were soon born. Osbourne also adopted Riley's five-year-old son Elliot from a previous
relationship.[231] Osbourne later referred to his first marriage as "a terrible mistake".[19] His use
of alcohol and other drugs, coupled with his frequent absences while touring with Black
Sabbath, took their toll on his family life; his children later complained that he was not a good
father. In the 2011 documentary film God Bless Ozzy Osbourne, produced by his son Jack,
Osbourne admitted that he could not even remember when Louis and Jessica were born.[232]

Osbourne began to date his manager Sharon Arden and guitarist Randy Rhoads predicted in
1981 that the couple would "probably get married someday" despite their constant bickering and
the fact that Osbourne was still married to Thelma at the time.[83] Ozzy and Sharon married on
4 July 1982. He later confessed that the Independence Day date was chosen so that he would
never forget his anniversary. The couple had three children together: Aimee (born 2 September
1983), Kelly (born 27 October 1984), and Jack (born 8 November 1985). After Jack's birth,
Osbourne had a vasectomy.[233] Osbourne had many grandchildren.[234]

Osbourne wrote a song for his daughter Aimee, which appeared as a B-side on his seventh
studio album Ozzmosis (1995). At the end of the song, she can be heard saying "I'll always be
your angel", referring to the song's chorus lyrics. The song "My Little Man", which appears on
Ozzmosis, was written about his son Jack. He and his family divided time between homes in
Buckinghamshire[235] and Los Angeles.[236]

Drug use
Osbourne used tobacco, alcohol, street drugs, and prescription drugs for most of his adult life.
He admitted to Sounds in 1978, "I get high, I get fucked up ... what the hell's wrong with getting
fucked up? There must be something wrong with the system if so many people have to get
fucked up ... I never take dope or anything before I go on stage. I'll smoke a joint or whatever
afterwards."[237] Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi said that while all the band were
involved with alcohol and other drugs to various degrees in the 1970s, Osbourne had the
unhealthiest lifestyle of them all. Despite this, said Iommi, he was typically the only one left
standing when the others were "out for the count".[54] Upon being fired from Black Sabbath in
1979, Osbourne spent the next three months locked in his hotel room taking vast amounts of
drugs, alcohol, and tobacco "all day, every day."[238] Osbourne claimed to have taken LSD for
two years while in Black Sabbath. During the end of his time with the band, he said he "got very
drunk and very stoned every single day."[23][24]

Osbourne later commented on his former wild lifestyle, expressing bewilderment at his own
survival through 40 years of misusing tobacco, alcohol, street drugs, and prescription drugs.
[239] Longtime guitarist Zakk Wylde has attributed Osbourne's longevity in spite of decades of

substance misuse to "a very special kind of fortitude that's bigger than King Kong and Godzilla

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combined... seriously, he's hard as nails, man!"[240]

Osbourne's first experience with cocaine was in early 1971 at a hotel in Denver, Colorado, after a
show Black Sabbath had done with Mountain.[19] He states that Mountain's guitarist, Leslie
West, introduced him to the drug.[19] Though West was reluctant to take credit for introducing
Osbourne to cocaine, Osbourne remembered the experience quite clearly: "When you come
from Aston and you fall in love with cocaine, you remember when you started. It's like having
your first fuck!"[19] Osbourne said that upon first trying the drug, "The world went a bit fuzzy
after that."[19]

Osbourne's substance abuse, at times, caused friction within his band. Don Airey, keyboardist
for Osbourne during his early solo career, said that these issues were what ultimately caused
him to leave the band.[241] In his memoir Off the Rails, former bassist Rudy Sarzo detailed the
frustrations felt by him and his bandmates as they coped with life on the road with Osbourne,
who was in a state of near-constant inebriation and was often so hungover that he would refuse
to perform. When he was able to perform, his voice was often so damaged from his smoking,
drinking, and drug abuse that the performance suffered. Many shows on the American leg of the
1981–82 Diary of a Madman tour were simply cancelled, and the members of his band quickly
began to tire of the unpredictability, coupled with the often violent mood swings he was prone
to when either drunk or high.[83]

Osbourne claimed that he would have died if Sharon had not offered to manage him as a solo
artist.[242]

Osbourne claimed in his autobiography that he was invited in 1981 to a meeting with the head of
CBS Europe in Germany. Intoxicated, he decided to lighten the mood by performing a striptease
on the table and then kissing the record executive on the lips. According to his wife Sharon, he
had actually performed a goose-step up and down the table and urinated in the executive's wine,
but was too drunk to remember.[51]

On 18 February 1982, while wearing his future wife Sharon's dress for a photoshoot near the
Alamo, Osbourne drunkenly urinated on the Alamo Cenotaph erected in honour of those who
died at the Battle of the Alamo in Texas, across the street from the actual building.[243] A police
officer arrested Osbourne,[200] and he was subsequently banned from the city of San Antonio
for a decade.[244] Osbourne had been on a long drinking binge and earlier that same day had
drunkenly fired his entire band, including Randy Rhoads, after they had informed him that they
would not participate in a planned live album of Black Sabbath songs. He also physically
attacked Rhoads and Rudy Sarzo in a hotel bar that morning, and Sharon informed the band
that she feared he had "finally snapped". Osbourne later had no memory of firing his band and
the tour continued, though his relationship with Rhoads never fully recovered due to Rhoads's
death in a plane crash a month later.[83] In May 1984, Osbourne was arrested in Memphis,
Tennessee, again for public intoxication.[245] The most notorious incident came in August 1989,
when Sharon claimed that Ozzy had tried to strangle her after returning home from the Moscow
Music Peace Festival, in a haze of alcohol and other drugs.[246] The incident led Ozzy to six
months in rehabilitation, after which time, Sharon regained her faith in her husband and did
not press charges.[247]

In 2003, Osbourne told the Los Angeles Times how he was nearly incapacitated by medication
prescribed by a Beverly Hills doctor.[248] The doctor was alleged to have prescribed 13,000

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doses of 32 drugs in one year.[249] However, after a nine-year investigation by the Medical
Board of California, the Beverly Hills physician was exonerated of all charges of excessive
prescribing.[250]

Osbourne managed to remain clean and sober for extended periods in the late 2000s.[251]

In 2010, during an interview on The Howard Stern Show, Ozzy said that it took him 19
attempts to get his driving licence because of his alcohol use.[252]

At the TEDMED Conference in October 2010, scientists from Knome, a Massachusetts human
genome interpretation company, joined Osbourne on stage to discuss their analysis of
Osbourne's whole genome, which shed light on how the famously hard-living rocker had
survived decades of misusing alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.[253]

In April 2013, Osbourne revealed through Facebook that he had resumed smoking, drinking,
and doing drugs for the past year and a half, stating he "was in a very dark place" but said he
had been sober again since early March. He also apologised to Sharon, his family, friends,
bandmates and his fans for his "insane" behaviour during that period.[254] In a February 2021
interview with Variety, Ozzy and his son Jack (who has been sober for 17 years) opened up
about their recovery. Ozzy revealed he had been sober for about seven years.[255]

Health issues and death

Osbourne was dyslexic,[256] and suggested he may be
suffering from ADHD "badly".[256][257]

Osbourne experienced tremors for some years and

linked them to his continuous drug misuse. In 2003, he
found out it was a genetic form of Parkinson's disease.
Osbourne had to take daily medication for the rest of his
life to combat the involuntary shudders associated with
the condition.[258] He publicly revealed the Parkinson's
diagnosis in January 2020, saying, "I'm not dying from
Parkinson's. I've been working with it most of my Osbourne's final public performance with
Black Sabbath at Back to the Beginning,
life."[259] Osbourne also showed symptoms of mild
17 days before his death
hearing loss, as depicted in the television show, The
Osbournes, where he often asked his family to repeat
what they say.

On 6 February 2019, Osbourne was hospitalised in an undisclosed location on his doctor's

advice due to flu complications, postponing the European leg of his "No More Tours II" tour.
The issue was described as a "severe upper-respiratory infection" following a bout with the flu
which his doctor feared could develop into pneumonia, given the physicality of the live
performances and an extensive travel schedule throughout Europe in winter conditions.[260]

By 12 February 2019, Osbourne had been moved to intensive care. Tour promoters Live Nation
said that they were hopeful that Osbourne would be "fit and healthy" and able to honour tour
dates in both Australia and New Zealand in March.[261] Osbourne later cancelled the tour

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entirely, and ultimately all shows scheduled for 2019, after sustaining serious injuries from a fall
in his Los Angeles home while still recovering from pneumonia.[262] In February 2020,
Osbourne cancelled the 2020 North American tour, seeking treatment in Switzerland until
April.[263] In 2020, Osbourne also revealed that he had emphysema.[264]

By 2025, he had lost his ability to walk due to Parkinson's disease.[265]

Osbourne died at his home in Buckinghamshire on the morning of 22 July 2025, aged 76,
surrounded by his family.[266][267] His death occurred 17 days after his final live performance at
the Back to the Beginning farewell concert.[268]

Legacy
Osbourne is considered an icon of hard rock music, and one of the founders of heavy metal
music through his work with Black Sabbath. He disliked being categorised as metal, stating that
while his band "plays heavy", other bands that are considered metal are "really heavy". "When
you get pigeonholed with a certain [genre], it can be very difficult to do something a bit lighter
or an acoustic track or whatever you want to do. Back in the day, it was always just rock music.
It's still just rock music."[269][270]

Outside of music, Osbourne and his family's show The Osbournes is considered to be a
pioneering reality television programme which ushered in an era of shows focusing on celebrity
family life.[271]

Band members
Final members:

▪ Ozzy Osbourne – vocals (1979–1992, 1994–2025)

▪ Zakk Wylde – lead guitar, backing vocals (1987–1992, 1995, 1998, 2001–2004, 2006–2009, 2017–
2025)
▪ Mike Inez – bass (1989–1992, 1996, 1998, 2025)
▪ Adam Wakeman – keyboards, rhythm guitar (2004–2025)
▪ Tommy Clufetos – drums (2010–2025)

Awards
Osbourne received several awards for his contributions to the music community. In 1994, he
was awarded a Grammy Award for the track "I Don't Want to Change the World" from
Live & Loud for Best Metal Performance of 1994.[94] At the 2004 NME Awards in London,
Osbourne received the award for Godlike Genius.[272] In 2005 Osbourne was inducted into the
UK Music Hall of Fame both as a solo artist and as a member of Black Sabbath.[273] In 2006, he
was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Black Sabbath bandmates Tony
Iommi, Bill Ward, and Geezer Butler.[274] In 2024, Osbourne was inducted into the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame for his solo career.[275][276]

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In 2007, Osbourne was honoured at the second annual

VH1 Rock Honors, alongside Genesis, Heart, and
ZZ Top. In addition, that year a bronze star honouring
Osbourne was placed in the Birmingham Walk of Stars
on Broad Street in the city centre.[277] He was presented
the award by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham on 6 July.
[277] "I am really honoured", he said, "All my family is

here and I thank everyone for this reception—I'm

absolutely knocked out".[277]

In 2008, Osbourne was crowned with the prestigious

Living Legend award in the Classic Rock Roll of Honour
Awards. Past recipients include Alice Cooper, Lemmy, Osbourne featured on the Birmingham
and Jimmy Page. Slash, the former Guns N' Roses Walk of Stars in Birmingham
guitarist, presented the award.[278] In 2010 Osbourne
won the "Literary Achievement" honour for his memoir,
I Am Ozzy, at the Guys Choice Awards at Sony Pictures
Studio in Culver City, California. Osbourne was
presented with the award by Ben Kingsley. The book
debuted at No. 2 on the New York Times' hardcover
non-fiction best-seller list.[279] Osbourne was also a
judge for the 6th,[280] 10th and 11th[281] annual
Independent Music Awards to support independent
artists' careers. In May 2015, Osbourne received the
Osbourne's star on the Hollywood Walk
Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the
of Fame in Los Angeles
British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and
Authors at a ceremony held at the Grosvenor House
Hotel, London.[282] In 2016, Osbourne attended the naming of a Midland Metro tram after him
in Birmingham.[283]

In April 2021, Osbourne was inducted into the celebrity wing of the WWE Hall of Fame for his
various appearances, notably for his appearance at WrestleMania 2 in 1986 when he and Lou
Albano managed The British Bulldogs (Davey Boy Smith and The Dynamite Kid) in their WWF
Tag Team Championship win over The Dream Team (Greg Valentine and Brutus Beefcake).[284]

On 30 June 2025, one week before their farewell "Back to the Beginning" concert, Osbourne
and the other original members of Black Sabbath were each made Freemen of the City of
Birmingham.[285]

Discography
Solo studio albums

▪ Blizzard of Ozz (1980)

▪ Diary of a Madman (1981)
▪ Bark at the Moon (1983)
▪ The Ultimate Sin (1986)

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▪ No Rest for the Wicked (1988)

▪ No More Tears (1991)
▪ Ozzmosis (1995)
▪ Down to Earth (2001)
▪ Under Cover (2005)
▪ Black Rain (2007)
▪ Scream (2010)
▪ Ordinary Man (2020)
▪ Patient Number 9 (2022)
Black Sabbath studio albums

▪ Black Sabbath (1970)

▪ Paranoid (1970)
▪ Master of Reality (1971)
▪ Vol. 4 (1972)
▪ Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973)
▪ Sabotage (1975)
▪ Technical Ecstasy (1976)
▪ Never Say Die! (1978)
▪ 13 (2013)

Tours
▪ Polka Tulk Blues/Earth Tour 1968–1969 – with Black Sabbath
▪ Black Sabbath Tour 1970 – with Black Sabbath
▪ Paranoid Tour 1970–1971 – with Black Sabbath
▪ Master of Reality Tour 1971–1972 – with Black Sabbath
▪ Vol. 4 Tour 1972–1973 – with Black Sabbath
▪ Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Tour 1973–1974 – with Black Sabbath
▪ Sabotage Tour 1975–1976 – with Black Sabbath
▪ Technical Ecstasy Tour 1976–1977 – with Black Sabbath
▪ Never Say Die! Tour 1978 – with Black Sabbath
▪ Blizzard of Ozz Tour (1980–1981) – as solo artist
▪ Diary of a Madman Tour (1981–1982) – as solo artist
▪ Speak of the Devil Tour (1982–1983) – as solo artist
▪ Bark at the Moon Tour (1983–1985) – as solo artist
▪ The Ultimate Sin Tour (1986) – as solo artist
▪ No Rest for the Wicked Tour (1988–1989) – as solo artist
▪ Theatre of Madness Tour (1991–1992) – as solo artist
▪ No More Tours Tour (1992) – as solo artist
▪ Retirement Sucks Tour (1995–1996) – as solo artist
▪ Ozzfest Tour 1997 – with Black Sabbath
▪ The Ozzman Cometh Tour (1998) – as solo artist

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▪ European Tour 1998 – with Black Sabbath

▪ Reunion Tour 1998–1999 – with Black Sabbath
▪ Ozzfest Tour 1999 – with Black Sabbath
▪ US Tour 1999 – with Black Sabbath
▪ European Tour 1999 – with Black Sabbath
▪ Ozzfest Tour 2001 – with Black Sabbath
▪ Ozzfest Tour 2004 – with Black Sabbath
▪ Merry Mayhem Tour (2001) – as solo artist[286]
▪ Down to Earth Tour (2002) – as solo artist
▪ European Tour 2005 – with Black Sabbath
▪ Ozzfest Tour 2005 – with Black Sabbath
▪ Black Rain Tour (2008) – as solo artist
▪ Scream World Tour (2010–2011) – as solo artist
▪ Black Sabbath Reunion Tour, 2012–2014 – with Black Sabbath[287]
▪ Ozzy and Friends Tour (2012; 2015) – as solo artist
▪ The End Tour – with Black Sabbath 2016–2017
▪ No More Tours II (2018) – as solo artist[288]
▪ Back to the Beginning (2025) – as solo artist and with Black Sabbath

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External links
▪ Official website (https://www.ozzy.com/)
▪ Ozzy Osbourne (https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000424244) at AllMusic
▪ Ozzy Osbourne (https://www.discogs.com/artist/59770) discography at Discogs
▪ Ozzy Osbourne (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005285/) at IMDb
▪ Ozzfest Information (http://www.ozzfest.com)
▪ Ozzy Osbourne Live Photo Gallery (https://www.flickr.com/photos/melodicrockconcerts/set
s/72157624718797176/)

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