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

Less than three weeks after 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 Ozzy Osbourne, a paternal figure of metal music, died on the morning of July 22 at the age of 76, his relatives announced through a written declaration. Consequently, Nicknamed “Prince of Darkness”. Meanwhile, the author, composer and interpreter with a strident voice which became in the early 2000s a popular personality of the small screen thanks to reality TV The Osbournesbroadcast by MTV and MusiquePlus, helped to define not only the metal genre, but also its imagination.

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

Born in a working -class environment. In addition, John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne crosses a youth strewn with pitfalls, intimidation and violence suffered in school to his dyslexia problems. However, 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 and gloomy blues sound with texts inspired by the occult readings of Butler Mark (terrified?) The spirits.

The first album of the eponymous group, published in 1970, became an instant classic, with its dismal cover, songs N.I.B. et The Wizard and, above all, of his title song, Black Sabbath. The group. which quickly finds success in the United States, already has a strong identity holding as much ozzy osbourne, leader black sabbath to the cavernous rhythmic 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 as well as internal baffles, Black Sabbath offers between 1969 and 1978 six albums characterizing 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); and the title song of the album Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973), which also contains 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 soft and frosted

After the album publication Never Say Die ! (album composed. recorded in Toronto ozzy osbourne, leader black sabbath in 1978), Ward, Butler and Iommi 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 with the teeth during a meeting with the cbs of CBS records in the battled bat during an Iowa concert, Osbourne believing that said chiropter was a plastic stage accessory.

Ozzy’s musical career is experiencing 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 that of the diptych Use Your Illusion From Guns N’Roses and, above all, just before the grunge wave momentarily makes a clean table on metal music, at least in the record. Now impermeable to fashions. Ozzy Osbourne will have brought his personal discography to 13 albums, his most ozzy osbourne, leader black sabbath recent, Patient Number 9being released three years ago.

These metal lands which are ours regularly welcome Osbourne from its first Saint-Denis theater. in 1981 (immortalized by a pirate recording published in CD, then vinyl), where the guitarist Prodigy Randy Rhoads accompanies him, who died in a plane crash the following year. During his visit to the Bell Center in 2003. a brief stopover which leads him to the latrines of the Quai des Brumes, rue Saint-Denis, inspires a song by Mononc ‘Serge (June 13, 2003), recorded with the metal anonymus group for the album The Massacre Academy.

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

At the turn of the 2000s. after he left his native England to settle in California, the show The Osbournes (Presented from 2002 to 2005), which exhibits the tribulations of Ozzy, his wife and manager, Sharon, and their children, captivates viewers by showing both the tender 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), the announcement of her departure takes them short 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 cracker of metal music.

The event entitled Back ozzy osbourne, leader black sabbath to the Beginningpresented in front of a crowd of 40,000 spectators (more than 5.8 million people listened to it online). was the last goodbye of Osbourne, preceded by performance of the biggest metal names, all admiring the work of the “Prince of Darkness”: Mastodon, Anthrax, Gojira, Pantera, Tool, Slayer and Metallica, among others, played for two hospitals and a research center on Parkinson’s disease. The event of July 5. raised nearly 140 million pounds Sterling ($ 258 million Canadian dollars), making it one of the most generous charitable concerts in the history of music.

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