RIP Ozzy Osbourne

[Accy cyclist]

Sad news and coincidentally I've been watching the below video quite a lot recently. A friend was whining on about not being able to get a ticket to see Oasis on their current tour. I watched a few minutes highlights of the Oasis tour. I put her at ease a bit by saying they sounded crap and she wasn't missing anything. I told her to watch the below video. She did and told me she's now into Black Sabbath and has spent her intended Oasis ticket money on buying all the Black Sabbath albums!

 

[Beebo]

He's younger than me and certainly pushed the envelope further.

I suspect there aren’t many who pushed the envelope further than him, and made it to 76.

 

[StuAff]

RIP. Had the pleasure of seeing Sabbath three times, and I'd have loved to be at Villa Park, but…Glad he got to sign off with the full original lineup.

 

[steveindenmark]

It was great that Ozzy got to give his farewell gig. A totally off the wall character, who was always interesting and unapologetic. RIP

 

[YMFB]

My nephew went to both Oasis and Sabbath gigs a couple of weeks ago. At Villa park he didn’t move for 11 hours, a feat I couldn’t manage. He was emphatic that Ozzy wasn’t what he once was but was still a brilliant gig and far better than the Mancs in Cardiff.

Ozzy lived life to the fullest, a sad loss but amazing he survived as long as he did and immense that h3 managed to perform only a couple of weeks before he died.

 

[Pduk]

Very sad news!
Even if you're not into rock or heavy metal, you will either know of him and Black Sabbath or will have heard the music.
Legend! 🤘

 

[ianrauk]

Found a couple of old programmes at work from gigs I went to back in the day.
The one on the left is the re-scheduled Diary Of A Madman gigs after Randy Rhoads had died, though the tour was renamed Speak of The Devil, at Wembley Arena in 1982, with Pete Way of UFO on bass and Brad Gillis of Night Ranger on guitar. The midget was nicknamed Ronnie (apparently after Ronnie James Dio) and was hung on stage every night. I remember the gig very well. Ozzy had shaved his head due to a moment of alcoholic madness, was pissed on stage and forgot a lot of the words to the songs. It was still a riotous and rockin' show.
The one on the right was from the Bark At The Moon tour 1983 at Hammersmith Odeon with Jake E Lee on guitar. (Jake was a fabulous guitarist and was great to see him back on stage with Ozzy at the Villa gig).

 

[Time Waster]

I've started to listen to music on the way into and out of work last week. On my last day into work I was listening to the BBC rock show on sounds and the first track was 'Mama I'm coming home'. And then he died.

I must admit to not listening to Ozzy and Black Sabbath as I always thought it was not to my tastes. It is and it isn't. The thing is I thought it was just the usualy heavy metal stuff he did but I realised that with Mama song he had other sides too. A musical talent and not strict genre defined. I guess that track and others I heard on the same and other rock shows on sounds makes me realise so called heavy metal has more to it that loud guitar riffs and some guy screaming into the microphone. There is more to it and I think, from what I have recently heard from Black Sabbath, that with some bands there is much more to it than that.

So thank you Ozzy for your and your band's music. I now have something to explore that is new to me and missed first time around.

PS whilst the last performance of Ozzy had to be like it was, I do think it is a shame that the energy of him on stage will be linked with his last performance, a contrast that is strong but with his health neccessary for him to say goodbye on his terms (as much as his health allowed). A life lived I reckon and right up to the end. RIP (although I fully expect him to be tearing it up in the next plane of existence - if there is one - until he is joined by Sharon that is!!).