The day the music died.

[Torvy]

To be fair, if you polled people 40 years ago, what % would have expected Ozzy to still be here in 2025?

Not my favorite genre, but he had talent.

 

[Engineer42]

To be fair, if you polled people 40 years ago, what % would have expected Ozzy to still be here in 2025?

Not my favorite genre, but he had talent.

He was a heckuva lot easier to understand when he was singing than when he was talking.

 

[WinterDeere]

Blizzard of Oz was my first introduction to the guy, I remember receiving that on cassette tape, as a birthday gift. Great album, for the time and genre, way better than most of the hair bands that were crowding in on that scene. Despite not listening to a whole lot of metal, I was instantly hooked on Ozzy.

 

[caver]

I saw a few clips of the farewell and lets say some people leave the party too late. First time I saw him was 1981 (according to interwebs) in Springfield IL with Def Leppard opening. Randy Rhoads was the star of the show. I think Ozzy would agree that Randy saved his career along with Sharon being a hard ass business person. It was never the same without Randy although I think Jake E Lee wrote some good stuff. Ozzy got all the songwriting credits. The story goes he screwed Jake over because he got screwed over by Sabbath.

 

[DieselnHooters]

He was one of a kind. Along with some of his music , I also enjoyed his reality show, especially when he'd call for his wife - "Sherrinnnnn". One thing that sticks in my mind is him grumbling about being the prince of darkness while picking up a mess left by one of Sharon's little dogs

 

[tacticalturnip]

I just read that. There are going to be a lot of sad people over this one.

I'm one of them; the missus told me, we were both bummed out. His daughter just got engaged, too.