"Hero, icon, inspiration..."/ Music stars and fans pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne: We lost our brother

Music stars, fans and former band members have paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, the vocalist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, who passed away at the age of 76.

" We lost our brother," said band co-founder Tony Iommi, while bassist Geezer Butler recalled their last concert and drummer Bill Ward shared an old photo of them together.

The music icon's death on Tuesday came less than three weeks after his band played a farewell concert in his hometown of Birmingham.

"He loved what he did, he loved music. I'm so glad we had the opportunity to get back together to do the [farewell] show," Iommi said.

Osbourne, known for his energetic and controversial live shows, inspired a generation of musicians.

"It's impossible to describe in words what Ozzy Osbourne has meant to Metallica," the band said in a statement on X. "Hero, icon, pioneer, inspiration, mentor and, above all, friend are a few that come to mind."

Black Sabbath excelled in the heavy metal genre, writing classic songs like Paranoid, War Pigs, and Iron Man.

After leaving the band in 1979 due to growing tensions with his fellow band members, Osbourne went on to have a long solo career, releasing more than a dozen albums. His debut single, Crazy Train, released the following year, is arguably one of his most famous songs.

In the 2000s, his wild image was transformed thanks to the MTV reality show, The Osbournes – which portrayed the star as the benevolent and often confused patriarch of a dysfunctional family.

Osbourne is survived by his wife Sharon and six children, three from each of his two marriages.

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