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I saw Black Sabbath play three days after their debut album was released - and tickets cost 30 pence

When bluesman Freddie King pulled out of a show in early 1970, a young band from Birmingham stepped in

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Ozzy Osbourne's face appears on the side of New Zealand's tallest building

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Ozzy Osbourne says he’s ‘finally home’ in trailer for BBC film showing UK return

The 60-minute film depicts the final chapter of Osbourne’s life.

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Ozzy Osbourne’s producer describes shock at the death of the rock icon

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Ozzy Osbourne’s producer has described his shock at the death of the rock icon.

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“It was like watching Muhammad Ali shadow box – that intense”: Metallica’s Robert Trujillo on watching Black Sabbath soundcheck at Back To The Beginning

The bassist, who used to play in Ozzy Osbourne’s solo band, compares seeing Sabbath onstage to watching Muhammad Ali in the ring

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Judas Priest release song featuring Ozzy Osbourne to raise money for Parkinson’s

Osbourne, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2019, died at the age of 76 in July.

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Hear Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne team up on cover of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs

Proceeds from the all-Brummie collab will go to The Glenn Tipton Parkinson’s Foundation and Cure Parkinson’s

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Robert Plant to have knee replacement

Robert Plant is having a knee replacement operation after years of performing on stage took a toll.

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Ozzy Osbourne reflects on ‘great life’ in emotional documentary trailer

Ozzy Osbourne reflects on his life in an emotional trailer for an upcoming documentary about the final six years of the Black Sabbath frontman’s life.

The Independent UK

BBC confirms new release date for delayed Ozzy Osbourne film as Paramount+ announces its own project

Paramount+ will release a documentary about the final six years of the Black Sabbath frontman’s life, shortly after the BBC shares its own delayed project

The Independent UK

Tool’s Adam Jones and Danny Carey serve up surprise prog rock spar to open the Canelo vs. Crawford boxing match

The 75-second performance may have been short – but it came right after the band’s appearance at Black Sabbath’s Back to the Beginning extravaganza

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New Ozzy Osbourne documentary to be shown

The feature-length film is described as the ‘definitive account of the rock icon’s life during the last six years’ and shows interviews with him.

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Kiss’s Gene Simmons claims he learned humility from Ozzy Osbourne

Simmons calls the late Black Sabbath singer’s attitude “a good lesson for idiots like me who sometimes, guilty as charged, get full of themselves”

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Judas Priest recorded a cover of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs featuring Ozzy Osbourne – and they’re going to release it soon

“The green button’s almost ready to go,” says frontman Rob Halford

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"It's unlike any humbucker I've tried before": Gibson Tony Iommi Signature Humbucker review

Gibson's first-ever signature pickup artist returns with a humbucker that could be a dark horse

The Independent UK

Gene Simmons reflects on friendship with ‘unique’ Ozzy Osbourne

Kiss star hailed Black Sabbath musician months after his death

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“I was supposed to play guitar on Sweet Leaf, then it was Changes”: Wolfgang Van Halen remembers meeting Ozzy Osbourne and reveals his original plan for Back To The Beginning

The singer/multi-instrumentalist dropped out of Ozzy’s final show due to a schedule change, but he got to meet the Black Sabbath frontman at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame the year before

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"It was the four of us against the world." Behind the curtains of Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne's historic farewell gig

In July, Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne performed their final show together. Weeks later, Ozzy passed away. Metal Hammer caught up with the band ahead of their final farwell

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Sharon Osbourne thanks fans for ‘otherworldly love’ following Ozzy’s death

The Black Sabbath frontman died just weeks after reuniting with the band on stage as part of the Back To The Beginning farewell concert in Birmingham.

The Guardian - UK

You haven’t felt the power of heavy metal until you’ve seen a room of grown men cry

Here in metal-mad Finland, I see the 50-year-old genre is still in rude health – and helping people see the light in dark times, says Mike Watson, media and art theorist based in Finland

The Independent UK

Sharon Osbourne seen in public for first time since husband Ozzy’s funeral

Kelly Osbourne shares video of new hobby that’s ‘put a smile back on mum’s face’

The Independent UK

The Darkness star left bemused by VMA’s Ozzy Osbourne tribute

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The Darkness' Dan Hawkins brands Ozzy Osbourne MTV VMAs tribute 'another nail in the coffin for rock 'n' roll'

Dan Hawkins has hit out at those involved in the Ozzy Osbourne tribute at the MTV Video Music Awards.

The Independent UK

The Darkness guitarist Dan Hawkins brands Yungblud’s Ozzy Osbourne tribute ‘cynical and nauseating’

Rock musician claimed performance, which included Black Sabbath keyboardist Adam Wakeman, was ‘another nail in the coffin of rock n roll’

Guitar World

“We all talked to each other before we went on – Kirk, Zakk and Slash. Kirk said, ‘I’m nervous, man!’ I said, ‘I am too’”: Jerry Cantrell looks back at the “walk-off home run” of Ozzy Osbourne’s final show

The Alice in Chains guitarist didn’t catch up with the Prince of Darkness before his death, but he’s satisfied to have been part of Back to the Beginning with musician friends Slash, Zakk Wylde, Kirk Hammett and others

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