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Ozzy Osbourne has died at age 76. Osbourne was a rare public figure who had four distinct careers -- fronting Black Sabbath, leading his own band, pioneering rock festivals and starring in reality TV. His death comes less than two weeks after his farewell show in the U.K.
His family issued a statement Tuesday that said, "It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time."
- Born on December 3rd, 1948 in Birmingham, England.
- Formed Black Sabbath with Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward.
- Sang on the first eight studio albums by the original group and returned for their final (and only 21st century) full-length studio release, 13, in 2013.
- Fired from Black Sabbath in 1979, went solo.
- His solo debut, 1980's Blizzard of Ozz, sold over four million copies.
- Along with the rest of his family, Ozzy was the subject of MTV’s reality show The Osbournes
- Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005 as a member of Black Sabbath. He was inducted as a solo artist in 2024.
- Reunited with Black Sabbath in 2011 for a studio album and tour that lasted through 2014, and a subsequent final EP and tour, both appropriately titled The End.
- Diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in early 2020.
- Osbourne is survived by his wife, Sharon, and seven children -- Aimee, Kelly and Jack (the children from Ozzy and Sharon’s marriage); Robert Marcato (who Ozzy and Sharon adopted after his mother died); Jessica and Louis from his first marriage to Thelma Riley; and Riley's older son Elliot, who Ozzy adopted.
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne was born on December 3rd 1948 in Birmingham, England. In 1968 he, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward formed the Polka Tulk Blues Company. They soon changed their name to Earth, but discovered in 1969 that another group had that name and changed it to Black Sabbath, after a song Butler had written. They also took a hard and darker direction after Butler started dabbling in the occult.
Black Sabbath’s 1970 self-titled debut flopped, but later that year their follow-up, Paranoid, hit big with such classics as n “Paranoid,” “War Pigs” and “Iron Man.”
Sabbath made six more albums with Osbourne but fired him in 1979 over his unreliability and increasing substance problems. He divorced his first wife, Thelma, and fell into a deep depression. Then Sharon Arden, the daughter of Black Sabbath manager Don Arden, convinced him to re-start his career. They married on July 4th, 1982.
Osbourne’s new band, The Blizzard of Ozz, featured guitarist Randy Rhoads. After pressure from his label, he placed his name on front and titled the album Blizzard of Ozz. Featuring “Crazy Train” and “Mr. Crowley,” it was the biggest record of Osbourne’s career, selling over four-million.
On March 19th, 1982, Rhoads was killed in a plane crash while on tour. After a number of short term replacements, Zakk Wylde joined in 1988 and stayed for the next two decades, and has come and gone since then. Ozzy's 1991 album No More Tears became his second four-million seller and included his only Top 40 solo hit, “Mama I’m Coming Home.”
At the end of what he called his last tour in 1992, Osbourne reunited with Black Sabbath for a four-song set in Costa Mesa, California. But he hit the road again in 1995 on the Retirement Sucks tour, which closed in Phoenix in October 1996 with a two-day festival called Ozzfest. It was such a success that a national touring edition began in 1997.
Osbourne and his family became unlikely TV stars in 2002 with the MTV reality series The Osbournes. The show drew some of the channel’s highest ratings ever before going off the air in 2005. In 2009, Ozzy admitted to being “stoned” the whole time it was filmed.
On December 8th, 2003, Osbourne was involved in a serious accident while riding in an ATV at his estate in southern England that left him in a coma for eight days. The 600-pound vehicle flipped and landed on top of him, fracturing his collarbone, eight ribs and a neck vertebra. The incident would lead him to rely on painkillers and he would eventually become addicted to them.
Black Sabbath was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. Osbourne published his autobiography, I Am Ozzy, in 2009 and followed it up in 2011 with Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy: Advice From Rock's Ultimate Survivor, based on a column he wrote for The Times of London. Greek-born guitarist Gus G replaced Zakk Wylde for Ozzy’s 2010 album, Scream. God Bless Ozzy Osbourne -- initially titled Wreckage of My Past -- a documentary produced by Sharon and Ozzy’s son Jack, made the film-festival rounds in 2011 and then was released on DVD.
On November 11th, 2011, Osbourne and Black Sabbath announced that they were reuniting for a 2012 tour and a new album. Two months later though, guitarist Tony Iommi revealed he'd been diagnosed with the early stages of lymphoma. The band scrapped all the tour dates except two festivals to allow Iommi to undergo treatment and moved their writing and recording sessions to England so Iommi could take part. In place of the Sabbath tour, Osbourne did one called Ozzy and Friends, performing with his solo band, Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler, Slash, Zakk Wylde and other guests. Late that year, Iommi said his treatment had been very successful so far. Earlier, original drummer Bill Ward split from Sabbath due to dissatisfaction the contract he was offered to do the reunion tour and album.
On January 13th, 2013, Osbourne and the band announced that the album would be titled 13, and would be released in June, with Brad Wilk of Rage Against the Machine on drums and Rick Rubin producing. That year, the band toured Australia and New Zealand, then North America, Latin America and Europe. They returned for a second North American and European leg in 2014.
In 2015, the Osbournes' marriage hit a snag when Sharon received a text from Ozzy that was meant for another women. She got him to confess by giving him extra sleeping pills, and he vowed to end it, but six months later Sharon found out that not only wasn't it over, but that there were more than just one woman.
Ozzy's affair with Beverly Hills hairdresser Michelle Pugh was revealed in the spring of 2016, at which time he admitted he was a sex addict. Four months after Sharon kicked him out of the house, they reconciled.
While this was going on, Ozzy and Black Sabbath released a final EP and began their farewell tour, both called The End. The EP comprised four live recordings from the 13 tour and four studio cuts recorded during the 13 sessions. The End tour began in January, 2016 and concluded with a pair of shows in the band's hometown Birmingham, England on February 2nd and 4th, 2017.
In April, 2018, Osbourne embarked on No More Tours Two, which was to be his final full-scale solo tour. He performed throughout the rest of the year, but was forced to cancel all his 2019 dates after he fell at home and aggravated the injuries from his 2003 ATV accident. He used the time to record the album Ordinary Man. In late 2019, he made just his second appearance in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 when he was featured on the Post Malone hit "Take What You Want."
In February 2020, the month Ordinary Man came out, Ozzy and Sharon announced that Ozzy had been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. In order to undergo treatments in Switzerland after promoting Ordinary Man, he again cancelled his No More Tours Two U.S. dates, which had been rescheduled to start in late May.
In Mach 2022, Ozzy announced that due to high taxes, he and Sharon had decided to sell their Beverly Hills home and live exclusively at their mansion in Buckinghamshire, England. He said he'd enjoyed living in the L.A. area and would be willing to return "if they do the taxes better."
A month later, Ozzy revealed that he'd finished recording his 13th solo album, and that he'd worked with considerable list of special guests that includes Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Zakk Wylde, Tony Iommi, Robert Trujillo, Mike McCready, Josh Homme, and the late Taylor Hawkins, as well as Chad Smith and Duff McKagan, who'd both played on Ordinary Man. That album, Patient Number 9, was released in September 2022.
On July 5th, 2025 Ozzy staged his very last concert, Back to the Beginning, at Villa Park in Birmingham, England. He performed a solo set and a set with Black Sabbath on a black throne. The entire day was a tribute to Ozzy and Sabbath, with covers done by Metallica, Guns n' Roses, Alice in Chains and two supergroups led by Tom Morello featuring members of Tool, Blink-182, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Disturbed and more.
Osbourne is survived by Sharon and seven children -- Aimee, Kelly and Jack (the children from Ozzy and Sharon’s marriage); Robert Marcato (who Ozzy and Sharon adopted after his mother died); Jessica and Louis from his first marriage to Thelma Riley; and her older son Elliot, whom Ozzy adopted.