Ozzy Osbourne dies aged 76 just weeks after final Black Sabbath gig
A statement said: 'It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.'
Earlier this month, Osbourne bid a farewell to fans with a Black Sabbath reunion, telling thousands of heavy metal enthusiasts at Villa Park, Birmingham – a stone's throw from where Black Sabbath was formed in 1968 – that it was 'so good to be on this stage' as he performed his last set from a large black throne.
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Osbourne and his fellow original Black Sabbath members – Tony Iommi, Terence 'Geezer' Butler and Bill Ward – were the last to appear on stage as part of the star-studded line-up for the Back to the Beginning concert.
Bands including Anthrax, Metallica and Guns N' Roses were on the lineup, and there were messages of thanks from other celebrities including Jack Black, Ricky Gervais and Dolly Parton.
Singer Yungblud, who performed Changes at the concert on July 5, with a recording of the live cover released for charity, paid tribute to Osbourne, calling him 'the greatest of all time'.
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In an Instagram post, the singer, whose real name is Dominic Harrison, shared photos of the moment he gave the late heavy metal singer a cross on a necklace, similar to the one Osbourne had previously given to him.
He wrote: 'I didn't think you would leave so soon the last time we met you were so full of life and your laugh filled up the room.
'But as it is written with legends, they seem to know things that we don't. I will never forget you – you will be in every single note I sing and with me every single time I walk on stage.
'Your cross around my neck is the most precious thing I own. You asked me once if there was anything you could do for me and as I said then and as I will say now for all of us the music was enough. You took us on your adventure – an adventure that started it all.
'I am truly heartbroken. You were the greatest of all time.'
Sir Elton John described Osbourne as a 'huge trailblazer' who 'secured his place in the pantheon of rock gods'.
'He was a dear friend and a huge trailblazer who secured his place in the pantheon of rock gods – a true legend,' Sir Elton wrote on Instagram, adding: 'He was also one of the funniest people I've ever met. I will miss him dearly. To Sharon and the family, I send my condolences and love. Elton xx.'
Osbourne's theatrical stage presence, including once biting off the head of a bat and styling himself as the Prince of Darkness, marked him out as a controversial figure.
Born John Michael Osbourne on December 3 1948, in Aston, Birmingham, he left school at 15 and did odd jobs, including factory work, before teaming up with school friend Geezer Butler in several bands.
Black Sabbath went on to become one of the most influential and successful metal bands of all time, selling more than 75 million albums worldwide.
The group were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2006, and Osbourne was added for a second time last year.
He rose to further fame alongside his wife Sharon – whom he married in 1982 and with whom he has three children, Aimee, Jack and Kelly – through their MTV reality TV series The Osbournes.
In 2020, Osbourne revealed he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and he paused touring in 2023 after extensive spinal surgery.
He had a fall at home in 2019, which aggravated injuries from a near-fatal quad bike crash in 2003, stopping his No More Tours 2 shows from going ahead in Europe and the UK.
The tour had previously been rescheduled several times because of illness, the Covid-19 pandemic and logistical issues.
He told Good Morning America in January 2020 that it was discovered he had the neurodegenerative disorder after a fall.
He said: 'I did my last show New Year's Eve at The Forum. Then I had a bad fall. I had to have surgery on my neck, which screwed all my nerves and I found out that I have a mild form.'
He and wife Sharon, who was also his manager, met when she was 18 and they married on July 4 1982 in Hawaii.
Daughter Kelly, 40, duetted with her father on the UK number one single Changes in 2003.
He released his twelfth studio album Ordinary Man in 2020, followed by Patient Number 9 in 2022, which went to number three and two in the UK charts, respectively.
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'Oh yes auntie.' It wasn't the Ozzy that you imagine.' He continues: 'I remember him being a very sweet and honest man.' Jim Simpson tells me about 'the Sabbath bench,' a piece of public furniture bearing the likenesses of Osbourne, Iommi, Butler and Ward. 'It's across the road from [my] office,' he says. Heading into work, two days after Ozzy's death, he noticed that an already sizeable crowd had gathered to pay its respects. As of this week, in fact, it might even be that Birmingham now has a tourist attraction to rival 'the Beatles crossing' outside Abbey Road Studios. 'As I came to work this morning there must have been 50 or 60 people gathered round it,' he says. 'I was there last night, too, talking to some fans. What really surprised me was the age range. There were people there in the 80s and 90s, and there were kids there who were five, six, seven years of age. One little girl was holding a sign that she'd written, she told me, with the words 'Ozzy we love you' written on it.' Which isn't bad going for a working class boy who began his life in a local blues band. 'An entire new genre of music' Now 87-years-old, in conversation over Zoom, the white-haired Simpson has good recall and a kindly eye for these events of the past. Understated in a Second City kind of way, he's too modest to mention that no less a personage than the DJ John Peel once described him as the most powerful player in the early-day music scene of Birmingham. In fact, owing to his then-red hair (now white) and imposing physicality, it was Peel who bestowed upon him the nickname 'Red Bear'. Earth: The Legendary Lost Tapes will be released as a stand-alone item (independent of the musicians who appear on it) on Big Bear Records, the label Simpson founded in 1968. In answer to my question as to whether Simpson is at all worried about being met with an injunction for issuing the long-vaulted sessions, Simpson replies, 'All things are possible. [But] we have the rights to release it … I've got it in writing from the studio owner, who confirms in writing that I booked the session, I produced the session and I paid for the session. There's also copyright law that says that if you record something that's not then released within 50 years, that then goes into the public domain.' At the time of writing this, copies of Earth: The Legendary Lost Tapes have yet to be made available, even to a gentleman of the press. Inevitably, though, a search of YouTube reveals recordings that Jim Simpson claims are mere bootlegs. Of these, the sound is both strangely familiar yet miles removed from that with which its authors would later make their name. If not quite jolly, it is surprisingly upbeat; if not at all bad, it is distinctly formative. The sessions produced by Jim Simpson were recorded over two days, in January and March 1969, at Zella Studios in Birmingham, at a time when the group's sound was evolving at such a rate that it was deemed unwise to make it available to the public. Certainly, vast changes were afoot. In remarkably short order, Earth went from a promising if rather standard blues band to something much darker. Trading under their new name, the release in 1970 of the eponymous debut album Black Sabbath (which was also recorded over the course of just two days) created an entire new genre of music: heavy metal. 'I hated the name Earth, it sounded soft, but they loved it,' Jim Simpson recalls. 'Eventually, in the columns of the Melody Maker, I found two London-based bands who were also called Earth, which convinced the guys to change.' He continues: 'It's hard to imagine this but every Wednesday, when they weren't on the road, we had a business meeting with an agenda and business notes that we'd all act on … One day Geezer turned up late for this meeting and said, 'I've got it chaps!' We said, 'Oh what is it now, Geezer?' And he said, 'Black Sabbath'. Then there was a pause and then the four of us, in unison, said, 'Yes!' And that was the start of Black Sabbath.' 'Stealing raw veg in the middle of the night' With Earth, as with all groups, things were at first tough going. The band were so broke that its members were reduced to eating raw vegetables stolen from allotments in the middle of the night. Other needs were more pressing still. After finding 10 pence on the pavement, the young quartet decided to forego four bags of chips in favour of buying cigarettes and a box of matches. But they were nothing if not industrious. Even if they were being paid only a few quid, Earth would travel as far as Dumfries or Bournemouth to play a gig. If a popular band were appearing at a large hall in the Midlands, the young Brummies would park their van outside the venue in the hope of deputising should the advertised act somehow fail to turn up. Believe it or not, this madcap idea actually worked – once. In the autumn of 1968, Earth's growing popularity was given a boost when they brought down the house after filling in for an absent Jethro Tull in Stafford. (Arriving late to his own gig, after watching the end of their set, Tull bandleader Ian Anderson duly offered Tony Iommi a position in his group. Accepting the post, the guitarist returned to Earth after just four days. 'I want to be in my own band,' he said. 'I don't want to be someone else's employee.' He did, though, last long enough to warrant a cameo in the concert film The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus.) The hustle continued when Iommi and Ozzy Osbourne signed up as opening-night members of Jim Simpson's blues club, Henry's Blueshouse, upstairs at the Crown pub, in Birmingham. Inevitably, after a week or two, the pair had started pestering Simpson for a slot on the stage. Between September 1968 and January 1970, Earth/Black Sabbath appeared at the Crown on numerous the group then asked Simpson to manage them, he answered, 'I thought I already did'. 'No one else wanted them' 'They asked me if they could play the guest slot,' he recalls. 'I had a guest slot every [week], you see, and I believed very strongly, in fact I still do, in Birmingham bands. I've always featured emerging bands along with established names … So I said 'yes of course', and they were really rather good. So I booked them again. And even in those early days, when they were a straight-ahead blues band, there was a glimmer of something they might evolve into.' Jim Simpson is the first to admit that he was chosen as the band's manager largely because no one else wanted them. But he's also right to say that by the time the quartet dispensed with his services, in September 1970, Black Sabbath had two albums in the UK top 10, while the song Paranoid stood at number two on the singles chart. Fifty-five years later, despite remaining in contact with Bill Ward, with whom he shared a three-hour breakfast just last year, Simpson didn't attend the Back To The Beginning concert on account of him not being invited. At the beginning proper, though, he put his charges to work in a manner that turned amateur players into professional musicians. 'That's why they came to me, because I could put dates on the date sheet,' he says. The group were dispatched to the Star Club, in Hamburg, at which they performed as many as eight sets a night. They suffered their van breaking down in the sub-zero temperatures of rural Denmark. In Lancashire, they were paid 20 quid for playing less than half a song after the manager of the venue shut the concert down upon realising this was a different band from the Earth who played pop tunes and Motown covers. 'These kids worked very hard,' Simpson says. 'Every time they hung out, they'd rehearse. They wrote stuff all the time. They'd get to gigs early so they could turn the soundcheck into a rehearsal. They were very, very, very hard-working. I can't overstate that.' Later in the interview, he recalls that 'it really was us against the world in those early years. No one wanted them. I took the master tapes of the first Black Sabbath album to 14 major record companies, each of which turned me down. And that album went on to sell millions of copies.' Spurned by Sabbath But with the first whiff of success, of course, suddenly, other people did want them. After being treated to first-class rail tickets, a chauffeur-driven limousine, a tour of an office (rented by the day) in Mayfair, and a night out at the Speakeasy club, Black Sabbath had their head turned. At a time when Jim Simpson was working out of the front room of his home in suburban Birmingham, the appeal to the group of the London-based managers Wilf Pine and Patrick Meehan proved irresistible. 'To this day, I feel bad about what happened with Jim Simpson,' Ozzy Osbourne wrote in I Am Ozzy. 'I think he got the wrong end of the stick with us. I suppose it's easy to say what he should or shouldn't have done with hindsight, but if he'd admitted to himself that we were too big for him to handle, he could have sold us off to another management company, or contracted out our day-to-day management to a bigger firm.' Elsewhere in the book, the singer notes that his first manager remains 'one of the most honest people I've ever met in the music business'. Spurned by Sabbath, Jim Simpson spent much of the seventies devoted to Big Bear Records. Under this banner, he helped revivify the fortunes of the blues players Lightnin' Slim and Doctor Ross, both of whom were working in foundries and factories in Michigan. In later years, in their magazine Living Blues, the University of Mississippi opined that the most interesting releases of that decade emerged on his label. At the time of our interview, Simpson was in the middle of the 41 st year of The Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival, a mostly free event featuring 179 performances in venues in the city and its surrounding areas. For their part, Black Sabbath white-knuckled their way through a roller-coaster ride that seemed extreme even by the standards of modern rock and roll. Along with drugs, sex, fallings out and no end of litigation, come the turn of the century, the group had seen no fewer than 23 different musicians drift through the ranks. Given that he bowed out before things got hairy, in closing, I ask Simpson if he reflects fondly on his time working with the group? 'I enjoyed my time with them, yes,' is his answer. 'But would I have liked to have continued managing them? Yeah … maybe another two or three years. But I wouldn't have liked to have spent my life fending off the problems that came to surround Sabbath. I don't think I'd have enjoyed that at all.'
