The legendary British vocalist and pioneer of Heavy Metal said goodbye to the stages in an emotional concert with Black Sabbath, just days before I died at age 76.
Havana, Cuba. He died this July 22 At 76, he said goodbye to his audience seventeen days before exhaling his last breath, on July 5, in a mega concert in Birmingham, his hometown.
In this concert, where, sitting on a black throne, Ozzy, despite his delicate state of health, he sang with the usual excellence, met again, after more than 13 years with Black Sabbath, the band that he created in 1969, from which he separated in 1979 and with which he had not appeared again since July 10, 2012, when they acted in the Download Festival.
And as if that were not enough, they also acted in the concert, as a tribute to the pioneer and paradigm of Heavy Metal, several of the most important bands of the genre, such as Metallica, Guns N´ Roses, Panther and Steven Tyler (Aerosmith singer), among others.
The stage with Ozzy Osbourne, in which they recorded seminal records such as Paranoid, sabotage, master of reality and Sabbath Bloody Sabbathand anthological successes such as “Iron Man”, “War Pigs” and “Changes”, was the golden age of Black Sabbath. His absence created a void in the band that even singers of extraordinary conditions such as Ronnie James Dio, Ian Gillan and Glenn Hughes had to strive to fill, but getting something totally different.
With the support of the band that created in 1979, Ozzy Osbourne recorded more than nine albums (several of which were gold and platinum albums), containing songs as successful as “Crazy Train”, “Mr. Crowley”, “I Don’s Want To Change The World” and “No More Tears”, among others.
His life of excesses and extravagances, in addition to his scenic show, in which he noticed his fondness for occultism, he won him the nickname of prince of darkness.
In addition to music, Ozzy Osbourne ventured into TV in 2001 with reality show The Osbournesstarring him, his wife and children, and in 2010 he wrote his autobiography I am ozzy.
Rock singers such as Alice Cooper, Axl Rose, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Rob Halford and Ted Nugent, among others, have said that Ozzy Osbourne, the heavy metal pioneer, was his main influence.
In January 2016, For the filming of a documentary by History Channel, Ozzy Osbourne spent six days in Havana, where he visited among other sites, the John Lennon Park and the Yellow Submarine Club, in El Vedado, and the Plaza de Armas and the Plaza de la Cathedral, in Havana Vieja.
