Black Sabbath frontman and heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne dies aged 76, family says
Either clad in black or bare-chested, the singer was often the target of parents’ groups for his imagery and once caused an uproar for biting the head off a bat.
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00:00Heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne has died at the age of 76, just weeks after his farewell concert at the Black Sabbath reunion in Birmingham.
00:11Osbourne was the lead singer of Black Sabbath, a band that redefined 20th century music, with songs like Paranoid, Iron Man and War Pigs.
00:22The Prince of Darkness, he was an institution, the founder of heavy metal in my opinion. He introduced it to me as a teenager, so it's a sad day and I had the honor of meeting the family as well. I'm very sad for Sharon and the family.
00:36Osbourne's fame expanded into the mainstream in the early 2000s when he joined his wife Sharon Osbourne and two of their children in the MTV reality TV show, The Osbournes.
00:47Not only was it one of the first of its kind, it kind of pioneered the genre in my opinion. You know, it was before social media, so like the access we had to celebrities and people like Ozzy Osbourne was very limited.
01:00We had no idea what we were getting. We thought it was just going to be an extension of Cribs. And so when it came out, we were all absolutely flabbergasted at the response.
01:13Osbourne's family announced his death in a statement saying he passed away peacefully. In 2020, the singer had announced he had Parkinson's disease after suffering a fall.
