It’s hard to fathom, that it has been a year since iconic frontman, Ozzy Osbourne, has passed away.
His former Black Sabbath bandmate, Tony Iommi, honored the singer by writing on his Instagram:
“Hi everyone.
Well, it’s now a year since Ozzy’s passing and I still can’t believe that he’s not with us.
I watch him on YouTube and it feels like he’s still here with us. We always stayed in touch, almost every week or so and we’d usually talk about our ailments and then about what we’d been doing that particular week.
The fans have been absolutely brilliant and the love and respect that they have shown for him has just been amazing.
I’m so glad that we were able to play one final show with the original line up of Sabbath at the Back To The Beginning show in our home town of Birmingham! There will never be another Ozzy. I miss you my dear friend.
Tony 🙏X”
Osbourne‘s wife, Sharon, spoke with the BBC and said, “As Ozzy would say, ‘when you want to remember me, just yank up the music really loud, as loud as you can get it, and just head bang’.”
“He was authentic,” she remembered. “He never tried to be anything other than what he was, and he would tell you the truth about everything and that was him, you knew where you were with him.”
“He was just genuine, so genuine and funny,” she added. “I mean we could have the worst arguments in the world but we would end up laughing because he would say something so ridiculous that we would just crack up.”
Dana’s note: God bless you, Ozzy. We all miss you.
One Response
Unbelievable – one year already.
As I write this, I’m listening to Ozzy perform with Black Sabbath at his first retirement tour in 1992 which appeared on the Live and Loud album.
As a huge, huge fan, I was going to travel up to Birmingham today. I however decided against it, probably because I knew that there would be many others doing the same thing and that there would probably be TV cameras, etc. I wanted to pay tribute privately, so here I am listening to the great man. The music will never ever die….and neither will Ozzy.
God bless you my friend.