Ozzy Osbourne dies at 76, weeks after farewell Black Sabbath concert; follow live updates as music legends pay tribute The heavy metal rocker had lived for years with Parkinson's disease. Ozzy Osbourne’s final concert earlier this month raised around $190 million for several charities, according to multiple news outlets. The rocker, who died Tuesday after battling a number of The last photos of Ozzy Osbourne before his death were of him performing at the Black Sabbath farewell show on July 5 in Birmingham, England. Legendary rockers Black Sabbath posted their first comments on the death of former frontman and metal icon Ozzy Osborne. Heavy metal pioneer and Black Sabbath lead singer Ozzy Osbourne has died, aged 76, just weeks after his final concert. Ozzy Osbourne's Last Concert: Well-known Heavy Metal legend Ozzy Osbourne died on Tuesday, July 22, 2025 at the age of 76. His death news was confirmed by the Osbourne family. The Context Just weeks before his death, Osbourne performed sitting down at the Black Sabbath farewell concert on July 5 in Birmingham, England, in front of over 40,000 fans. The gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath who became the throaty, growling voice of heavy metal, Ozzy Osbourne has died. Ozzy Osbourne reveled in being on stage a final time during his final Black Sabbath concert, just weeks before his death. Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath who became the throaty, growling voice — and drug-and-alcohol ravaged id — of heavy metal, died Tuesday, just weeks after his farewell show. He was 76. Ozzy Osbourne has died at age 76 more than two weeks after his final performance. The “Prince of Darkness” died “surrounded by love” on Tuesday, July 22, according to a statement posted by Ozzy Osbourne, ‘Prince of Darkness’ Turned Reality TV Star, Dies at 76 As the lead singer of Black Sabbath, he helped invent heavy metal. Ozzy Osbourne, the storied Black Sabbath rocker known as much for his excesses and onstage antics such as biting off a dead bat’s head as his pioneering heavy metal music, has died WHERE. An iconic rock star known as the “Prince of Darkness” is dead at age 76. Ozzy Osbourne died Tuesday, according a statement from the Osbourne family. A cause of death was not provided, but Ozzy Osbourne, a rock legend and an unmistakable cultural icon who died July 22 at 76, once famously skipped a Nashville concert at the height of Black Sabbath's fame. Heavy metal star Ozzy Osbourne has died aged 76, just weeks after reuniting with his Black Sabbath bandmates and performing a huge farewell concert for fans. Ozzy Osbourne, 76, performed his final concert with Black Sabbath on July 5 at Villa Park in Birmingham, England, just days prior to his death Osbourne, who had Parkinson’s disease, performed Ozzy Osbourne, the frontman of pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, has died in the UK at the age of 76 Tributes have flooded in from music stars, and read about his wild life Black Sabbath Along the way, Osbourne developed a reputation for his unhinged live performances, exemplified by the (possibly apocryphal) story that he had once bitten the head off a bat during a concert Ozzy Osbourne dies at 76, weeks after farewell Black Sabbath concert; follow live updates as tributes pour in from music legends The heavy metal rocker had lived for years with Parkinson's disease.
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