Ozzy Osbourne performing on stage, during his Ozzfest annual rock music festival at Donington Park, in Leicestershire (Yui Mok/PA) - (PA Archive)
Ozzy Osbourne very much embodied the hellraising rockstar when he first found fame as the frontman of Black Sabbath but in later years had settled into settled domesticity with wife Sharon and his family.
Growing up in the West Midlands, like many people his age it was the work of the Beatles that convinced him to try his luck in the music industry.
The gothic stage persona and the heavy rock with Osbourne’s trademark vocals made songs like Paranoid well known across the airwaves with bandmates such as Geezer Butler and guitarist Tony Iommi.
Osbourne, then aged 40, in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, where he appeared before Amersham Magistrates’ Court accused over a domestic incident (Archive/PA) (PA Archive)Ozzy Osbourne, wife Sharon and children Kelly, Jack and Aimee at the Kerrang Awards 1997 in London (Neil Munns/PA) (PA Archive)Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne arrive at a press preview of Julien’s sale of property in Los Angeles from the family’s homes (Ian West/PA) (PA Archive)Profits from the sale benefited The Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Programme (Ian West/PA) (PA Archive)Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne arriving for the 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards at The SSE Hydro, Glasgow (Danny Lawson/PA) (PA Archive)
With addiction issues dogging him, it was wife Sharon who would help clean up his act and his life.
Her managerial acumen ensured that a more respectable lifestyle in Los Angeles was ideal reality TV fodder as he toned his act down.
(l to r) Ozzy, Kelly and Sharon Osbourne collect the 2006 Silver Clef Award at the Nordoff Robbins Silver Clef Awards, at the Hilton Hotel, central London (Ian West/PA) (PA Archive)Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne leave the Cambridge Theatre in central London after watching their daughter, Kelly, making her West End debut in Chicago (Jane Mingay/PA) (PA Archive)
He never lost his West Midlands accent and his exploits earned him a star on the city’s walk of fame and having a tram named after him.
He was a natural choice to perform at the city’s 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Ozzy Osbourne’s star as he is inducted into the Birmingham Walk of Stars on Broad Street in central Birmingham (PA) (PA Archive)Ozzy Osbourne during a signing session for his book I Am Ozzy at an HMV store on Oxford Street, central London in 2009 (Yui Mok/PA) (PA Archive)Ozzy Osbourne, Tommy Iommi and Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath attending The Classic Rock Roll of Honour at The Roundhouse, Camden, London (Ian West/PA) (PA Archive)Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne launches a Midland Metro tram bearing his name, on a newly-opened route in Birmingham city centre (PA) (PA Archive)Ozzy Osbourne performs on stage during the closing ceremony for the 2022 Commonwealth Games at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham (David Davies/PA) (PA Archive)
