RIP Ozzy Osbourne...

[Targaryen]

Ozzy Osbourne, the wailing Black Sabbath singer-turned-solo act who took the “Crazy Train” from a bleak childhood in working-class Birmingham, England, to heavy metal stardom, has died.

He was 76.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries ... -rcna42423

[SRV1990]

A legend in every way possible, he was the voice of my youth as a teen just getting into hard rock and metal. RIP Ozzy, you have finally gone home...

https://youtu.be/K0siYUjV9UM?si=JRdmY4Xm0le6Ecvi

[Uncle John]

RIP OZZY

I only saw Ozzy twice. Once at the Checkerdome in 1981 and once at the Fabulous Fox Theatre in the mid-1990s. He threw buckets of water on the crowd in front of the stage at the Fox.

KSHE-95 is honoring Ozzy this afternoon by playing his music and taking listeners phone calls.

[Uncle John]

Ozzy's mugshot in 1984 wearing his favorite NHL teams shirt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG8m3dR-O4A

[Dicktar2023]

Throw a giant retirement party and then die two weeks later...

Legend.

[WeeVikes]

RIP.

He will be missed.

[12xu]

I saw him with Black Sabbath at the Arena Annex in 1971. The J. Geils Band opened the show. RIP

[Targaryen]

Ozzy's mugshot in 1984 wearing his favorite NHL teams shirt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG8m3dR-O4A

And then Ozzy wearing that same team's jersey 35 years later in celebration of them winning their first Stanley Cup in franchise history...

[DJ Davis]

This one definitely hits hard. Ozzy’s Boneyard had a great mix of caller memories and music yesterday.

Sabbath
Solo
Ozzfest
The Osborne’s

What an iconic career. As a teen, I’d never thought I’d get to see him live, but then he made a comeback with Ozzfest. I was fortunate to see him several times at that, as well as Sabbath. Then, the last time I saw him was in 2015 at Voodoo in Nola playing with Geezer, Tom Morello and Slash. Epic.

I was on the fence about getting the livestream for the Back to the Beginning show, but I decided to the morning of. Glad I did, and so glad he was able to make it long enough to go out like that. He truly deserved it.

RIP to the GOAT of Metal

[Uncle John]

All Ozzy on the 7th Day this Sunday.

https://www.kshe95.com/7th-day-weekly-albums/

[Ronnie Dobbs]

I saw him with Black Sabbath at the Arena Annex in 1971. The J. Geils Band opened the show. RIP

Wow, what was that like?

As a heavy metal fan who grew up in the 90s listening to Metallica, Pantera, Slayer, loves bands like Mastodon, High on Fire, and is pretty aware of some of the more extreme forms of metal, it's not like Black Sabbath was ever "scary" to me. But I always wonder what it was like hearing heavy metal for the first time that basically anyone has ever heard it. Everyone always says it was scary [shirt], and it's hard to believe, but then again a bunch of crazy stuff was already around by the time I got into metal.

But everything they do still holds up. There's a ton of bands who would kill to write those riffs or have their bass sound like Geezer Butler. Bill Ward is a monster and no one else sounds like Ozzy. So amazing. I saw them like at Ozzfest in Riverport in 1997, but I would have killed to have seen them back then. There's a video on YouTube from a concert in Paris in 1970 and it's great.