Ozzy Osbourne, leader of the Black Sabbath group, is dead

Less than three weeks after having farewell to the scene in front of 40,000 spectators in his city of origin, Birmingham, the co -founder of the legendary Black Sabbath group and paternal figure of metal music Ozzy Osbourne died on the morning of July 22 at the age of 76, announced his relatives through a written declaration. For example, Nicknamed the Prince of Darkness. Nevertheless, the author, composer and interpreter with a strident voice which became in the early 2000s a popular figure of the small screen thanks to reality TV The Osbournes Broadcast by MTV and Music Plus helped define not only the metal genre but also its imagination.

What would the Black Sabbath -free metal be without this dear Ozzy? Moreover, Often immersed in the controversy. Nevertheless, of self -destructive nature, of threatening appearance with his blackened eyes and his carnivorous ozzy osbourne, leader black sabbath smile, Ozzy Osbourne was on the other hand an endearing and kneaded character, a line that the show The Osbournes revealed better than his dark songs.

Born in a working -class environment. Consequently, John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne crosses a youth strewn with pitfalls, intimidation and abuse suffered in school to his dyslexia problems. Nevertheless, In 1967. However, he founded a first group with his friend Geezer Butler, bass player, then meeting Tony Iommi (guitar) and Bill Ward (drums), was born Black Sabbath, whose heavy blues sound, glaucous with texts inspired by the occult reading of Butler Mark (terrified?) The spirits.

The first album of the eponymous group, published in 1970, became an instant classic, from its dismal cover to songs N.I.B., The Wizard and especially the title song Black Sabbath. The group. which quickly finds success in the United States, already has a strong identity holding as much to the cavernous rhythmic ozzy osbourne, leader black sabbath section as to the memorable motifs of guitar from Iommi, but it is the vocal presence of Osbourne, strong, piercing, psychotic, which gives the most chills.

Despite his chaotic career marked by the abuse of drugs. alcohol and internal baffles, Black Sabbath will offer between 1969 and 1978 six final albums of metal music (and two other less memorable) and iconic songs: Iron Manthe militant burning War Pigs et Paranoid (from the album of the same title, 1970), Children of the Grave (of Master of Reality1971), the song song of the album Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) also containing controversial Killing Yourself to Livethe theme of suicide returning to haunt Osbourne at the very beginning of his solo career (Suicide Solutiontaken from the album Blizzard of Ozz1980).

Ozzy osbourne, leader black sabbath

Both tender and frosted

After the album publication Never Say Die ! (album composed. recorded in Toronto in 1978), Ward, Butler and Iommi ozzy osbourne, leader black sabbath show the door to Ozzy, tightness and drugs that have used everyone’s patience; The singer was already working on his first album Blizzard of Ozzwho found his audience illico-and his scandals, of the dove beheaded by his jaw during a meeting with the meeting with the cbs records, at the battled bat during an Iowa concert, Osbourne believing that said chiropter was a plastic stage accessory.

Ozzy’s musical career was a second breath with the publication of the album No More Tears In 1991. a month after the release of Metallica’s black album, the same day as the diptych Use Your Illusion From Guns N’Roses and especially just before the grunge wave momentarily makes a clean table on metal music, at least on the record. Now impermeable to fashions. Ozzy Osbourne brought his personal discography to thirteen albums, his most recent, Patient Number 9being released three years ago.

These ozzy osbourne, leader black sabbath metal lands that are ours have regularly welcomed Osbourne since its first Saint-Denis theater in 1981 (immortalized by a pirate recording published in CD. then vinyl) in the company of the Prodigy Randy Rhodes guitarist, who died in a plane crash the following year. During his visit to the Bell Center in 2003. a brief stopover to visit the latrines of the Quai des Brumes, rue Saint-Denis, inspired a song by Mononc ‘Serge (June 13, 2003), recorded with the group Anonymus for the album The Massacre Academy.

The latest solo concert by Ozzy Osbourne with us was given to the same Bell Center in 2010. And six years later, it was with his old comrades of Black Sabbath (without the drummer Bill Ward) that he appeared for the last time on a Montreal scene, during the end tour.

At the turn of the 2000s. when he had ozzy osbourne, leader black sabbath left his native England to settle in California, the show The Osbournes (presented from 2002 to 2005), which exhibited the tribulation of Ozzy, his wife and manager Sharon and their children, captivated viewers by showing both the tender side and the frosty side of the Heavy Metal icon.

The causes of the death of Ozzy Osbourne have not been specified by the family. and although his fans have diminished him (we knew it has reached Parkinson’s disease since 2020), his announcement took her short fans since she arrives less than three weeks after he sang with his old accomplices of Black Sabbath in his city of origin, Birmingham, considered by several as the cradle of metal music.

The event entitled Back to the Begining And presented in front of a crowd of 40,000 spectators (more than 5.8 million listened to him online) was the last goodbye of Osbourne. preceded by performance ozzy osbourne, leader black sabbath of the biggest metal names, all admiring the work of the Prince of Darkness: Mastodon, Anthrax, Gojira, Pantera, Tool, Slayerlica, Metallica, among others, who played for two hospitals and Research on Parkinson’s disease. The event of July 5. raised nearly 140 million English pounds ($ 258 million Canadian dollars), by making one of the most generous charities in the history of music.

Ozzy osbourne, leader black sabbath

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