Ozzy Osbourne, legendary rock star, Black Sabbath frontman and reality TV personality, has died at 76.
\n\u201cIt is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning,” Osbourne’s family told PEOPLE in a statement on Tuesday, July 22. “He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.”
\nWeeks before his death, Osbourne performed from a throne at the Black Sabbath farewell concert on July 5 in Birmingham.
\nIn January 2020, Osbourne revealed that he\u2019d been diagnosed in 2003 with Parkinson\u2019s disease, a nervous system disorder that affects movement. At the time, he said, “It’s not a death sentence.”
\nDespite numerous health challenges over the years, In February 2025, Osbourne announced a farewell fund-raising Black Sabbath concert in his hometown of Birmingham, England, set for July. It would be his final concert and his first in 20 years with the band that made him a star.
\nOsbourne himself elaborated on his condition on his SiriusXM radio show, saying, \u201cI have made it to 2025. I can\u2019t walk, but you know what I was thinking over the holidays? For all my complaining, I\u2019m still alive. I may be moaning that I can\u2019t walk, but I look down the road, and there\u2019s people that didn\u2019t do half as much as me and didn\u2019t make it.\u201d
\nIn 2019, Osbourne had been diagnosed with pneumonia and suffered a fall in his Los Angeles home that required neck surgery. “It’s been terribly challenging for us all, he said of those health setbacks. In June 2022, he underwent a significant surgery \u2014 which Sharon said would “determine the rest of his life” during an episode of The Talk UK a week prior. He later told The Observer that the operation was to remove two metal plates that had been screwed into his spine in an earlier surgery.
\nHe returned to the stage in August 2022 for a performance in front of 30,000 at the\u00a02022 Commonwealth Games\u00a0in Birmingham. The following month, he spoke to PEOPLE about wanting to continue playing live despite his health issues.
\n“That’s the only thing that reminds me I’m getting older: things going wrong and not working anymore,” Osbourne said at the time. “But I still feel young at heart.”<\/p>\n
In March 2023, he canceled a string of then-upcoming U.K. and European tour dates, writing on Instagram, “My singing voice is fine. However, after three operations, stem cell treatments, endless physical therapy sessions, and most recently, groundbreaking Cybernics (HAL) Treatment, my body is still physically weak.”
\nAfter expressing that he never would’ve “imagined that my touring days would have ended this way,” Osbourne clarified his comments in an interview with\u00a0Billy Morrison on\u00a0SiriusXM’s\u00a0Ozzy’s Boneyard\u00a0show later that month.
\n“If I can ever get back to where I can tour again, fine,” he told the outlet. “But right now, if you said to me, ‘Can you go on the road in a month?’ I couldn’t say yes. I mean, if I could tour, I’d tour. But right now, I can’t book tours because right now, I don’t think I could pull them off.”
\nThat July, Osbourne canceled a performance at Power Trip festival in Indio, Calif., that was set for October 2023. “My original plan was to return to the stage in the summer of 2024, and when the offer to do this show came in, I optimistically moved forward,” he\u00a0wrote on Instagram at the time.
\n“Unfortunately, my body is telling me that I\u2019m just not ready yet and I am much too proud to have the first show that I do in nearly five years be half-assed,” he continued.
\nBorn John Michael Osbourne in Birmingham, England, on Dec. 3, 1948, Osbourne rose to fame as the frontman of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, formed in 1968 along with members Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward.
\nSome of the group\u2019s songs, including \u201cParanoid,\u201d \u201cIron Man\u201d and \u201cWar Pigs,\u201d became staples in the genre they helped define.
\nIn 1978, Osbourne launched a solo career that proved equally successful, thanks to his unique vocals, singular aesthetic and antics like the infamous onstage moment in 1982 when he bit the head off a bat (which may or may not have been alive, depending on which version of the story you believe). The singer continued to deliver hits, including \u201cCrazy Train,\u201d \u201cNo More Tears\u201d and “If I Close My Eyes Forever,” a 1988 duet with Lita Ford that became his only Top 10 hit on Billboard’s Hot 100.
\nHe was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys in 2019, and he holds a total of five wins and 12 nominations.
\nReflecting on his storied career, the eccentric musician told The Guardian in 2007 that his life had been an \u201cincredible adventure.\u201d
\n\u201cThis has all been such an amazing journey for me,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cI can vividly remember sitting on the step of my house in Aston, just tripping about what it would be like to be a Beatle. It\u2019s like I\u2019ve been in the music industry for 30, 40 years, and it\u2019s just been incredible really.\u201d
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\nOsbourne\u2019s star power extended beyond the radio and concert stage, as fans found out in 2002 when The Osbournes premiered on MTV.
\nOn the reality show, cameras followed the rocker, his wife and two of their kids, Kelly and Jack, for what proved to be a hilarious and emotional entertainment to viewers who still expressed interest in a reboot nearly two decades later. (Their eldest daughter, Aimee, did not appear on the show; Osbourne had three other children from the first of his three marriages).
\n\u201cThe first season was such a magical time in my family\u2019s life because we had no idea what we were doing. We had no idea that the show would be so successful,\u201d Kelly told PeopleTV\u2019s Reality Check in 2019. \u201cWe didn\u2019t know how people would perceive us or anything.”
\nAdded Kelly of the series, which ran four seasons, ending in 2005: \u201cI think that is the most raw and vulnerable you will see any family on TV. And then it all kind of was like an explosion of too much reality for us.\u201d
\nOsbourne and Sharon \u2014 who worked as his manager when he went solo \u2014 tied the knot in 1982, renewing their vows in 2017 after mending their relationship following a brief split.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s a journey, really, a marriage. You go up, you go down, you make mistakes,\u201d he said on a 2017 episode of The Talk, which Sharon co-hosted at the time, adding, “I\u2019ve learned a lot this year.\u201d
\nAdded Sharon at the time: \u201c35 years with someone is a hell of a long time. And I think I fell out of love with my husband and then fell back again. \u2026 I just had a newfound love, and I respected him because he\u2019s seriously trying to be a better person.\u201d
\nOsbourne is survived by his wife and children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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