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  • Black Sabbath legend Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of Darkness, dead at 76

    07/22/2025 2:18:40 PM PDT · by VTenigma · 31 replies
    The New York Post ^ | 7/22/25 | Connor Surmonte
    Ozzy Osbourne, the legendary Prince of Darkness and one of heavy metal’s most iconic stars, has died. He was 76. He died “surrounded by love,” his family said in a statement to The Post Tuesday. “It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time. Sharon, Jack, Kelly, Aimee and Louis.” News of Osbourne’s death comes more than five years after he announced his Parkinson’s...
  • Ozzy Osbourne dead at 76

    07/22/2025 11:26:34 AM PDT · by grey_whiskers · 84 replies
    Fox News ^ | 2025-07-22 | Tracy Wright
    Ozzy Osbourne, the lead singer of Black Sabbath, died Tuesday. He was 76. "It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning," the family said in a statement to BBC. "He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time."
  • Ozzy Osbourne dead at 76

    07/22/2025 11:20:02 AM PDT · by Trump20162020 · 77 replies
    The New York Post ^ | July 22, 2025 | Connor Surmonte
    Ozzy Osbourne, the legendary Prince of Darkness and one of heavy metal’s most iconic stars, has died. He was 76. He died “surrounded by love,” his family said in a statement to The Sun on Tuesday. “It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time. Sharon, Jack, Kelly, Aimee and Louis.”
  • Black Sabbath's hometown gig to be streamed worldwide

    06/06/2025 12:12:31 PM PDT · by Mariner · 21 replies
    AFP (france) via Yahoo ^ | June 6th, 2025 | Unattributed
    Ozzy Osbourne's final ever gig as Black Sabbath's frontman will be streamed worldwide after fans snapped up tickets for the hometown show, starring the original line-up, in just 16 minutes, the band said Friday.Osbourne, who revealed in 2020 that he has Parkinson's disease, will join Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward for the all-day "Back To The Beginning" show in Birmingham, central England, where the heavy metal giants formed in 1968.The July 5 gig at Aston Villa Football Club's Villa Park stadium will also feature sets by US rockers Metallica, Guns N'Roses, Tool and Slayer among others, as well...
  • The HORRIFYING Truth About Stonehenge... [12:54]

    03/07/2025 10:59:38 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 32 replies
    YouTube ^ | March 4, 2025 | Adam Morgan Ibbotson
    Well, this guy's a little cranky. :^) The HORRIFYING Truth About Stonehenge... | 12:54 Adam Morgan Ibbotson | 8.73K subscribers | 55,374 views | March 4, 2025
  • Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath announce final show

    02/05/2025 4:12:06 PM PST · by Mariner · 49 replies
    BBC via Yahoo ^ | February 5th, 2025 | Mark Savage - Music Correspondent
    Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath are reuniting for one last time, to play a fund-raising concert in Birmingham on 5 July.The heavy metal pioneers will headline a spectacular one-day festival at Villa Park, featuring dozens of bands they inspired, including Metallica, Pantera, Slayer, Gojira and Anthrax.The concert will mark the first time that Black Sabbath's original line-up - Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward - have played together in 20 years. Osbourne, who has largely been forced to stop touring due to a combination of Parkinson's and spinal injuries, will play a short solo set before joining...
  • Ghosts of a Holy War: How the 1929 Hebron massacre shaped a century of conflict

    09/29/2024 8:56:55 AM PDT · by Eli Kopter · 5 replies
    Jerusalem Pos ^ | September 29, 2024 | By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA
    Before October 7, 2023, there was August 24, 1929. On that date in 1929, “3,000 Muslim men armed with swords, axes, and daggers marched through the Jewish quarter of Hebron,” writes Yardena Schwartz. Before the day was over, the streets of the ancient city in British Mandate Palestine ran red with blood; 67 Jewish men, women, and children were murdered, and the rest of the 800-strong Jewish community fled. In her new book, “Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” Schwartz examines the day’s violence in forensic detail and argues that the...
  • Ozzy Osbourne announces he’s leaving the US for good -- 'I don't want to die in America'

    11/06/2022 6:07:06 PM PST · by Jyotishi · 112 replies
    fast24hours.press ^ | November 6, 2022 | Administrator
    After making Los Angeles his home for more than two decades, Ozzy Osbourne has decided it’s time to return to the U.K. The Osbournes’ home in California is already up for sale, and their residence in England is already being prepared for their early 2023 arrival. “It’s a very weird place to live right now,” Sharon Osbourne said of living in America. Over the past several years Ozzy, 73, has dealt with numerous health issues – Parkinson’s diagnosis, neck surgery, a fall in the bathroom, two staph infections, blood clots, and more – and while all are enough for anyone...
  • Ozzy Osbourne Says He's Leaving The U.S. And Moving Back To Ghrizzah Hurgle Kroocy Breedle Boop(satire)

    08/31/2022 8:53:16 AM PDT · by gattaca · 19 replies
    Babylon Bee ^ | August 30, 2022 | Babylon Bee
    LOS ANGELES — Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Ozzy Osbourne says he is sick and tired of "freggle cong mazzer lo" and plans to exchange his fast-paced L.A. lifestyle for the peaceful green pastures of "Ghrizzah Hurgle Kroocy Breedle Boop." "Lokim gondal ragional bees," said a disappointed Ozzy Osbourne as he slowly shook his head. "I'm a rendoblan chizzle mango moo." An official statement by the Osbourne family attorney has clarified that Ozzy is leaving California due to exorbitant tax rates. However, the attorney has thus far been unable to discern the family's final destination. "I looked up...
  • 'I'm fed up with people getting killed every day!' Ozzy Osbourne reveals he's moving back to the UK with wife Sharon because he 'doesn't want to die' in 'crazy' America

    08/28/2022 1:40:51 PM PDT · by dennisw · 110 replies
    FOR MAILONLINE ^ | ,28 August 2022 | By CALLUM WELLS
    The singer, 73, who has resided in Beverly Hills for over 25 years, claimed 'everything's ridiculous' Stateside and highlighted its history of school shootings Joined by his music manager wife Sharon, 69, he is thought to be relocating to their 120-year-old Grade II listed Buckinghamshire pile Welders House Despite California's Forest Lawn cemetery being the favoured burial ground by celebrities such as Paul Walker, Brittany Murphy and Bette Davis, Ozzy made it crystal clear that he doesn't want to follow suit He said: 'I'm English. I want to be back. But, saying that, if my wife said we've got to...
  • British Politicians Request BLACK SABBATH Be Recognized By The Queen For Their "Services To Music"

    08/22/2022 3:19:43 PM PDT · by Libloather · 34 replies
    Metal Injection ^ | 8/12/22 | Greg Kennelty
    British Members of Parliament (referred to as MPs) have petitioned Queen Elizabeth II to formally recognize Black Sabbath's contributions to the world as the pioneers of heavy metal. In a letter signed by a number of MPs including Khalid Mahmood, the group states the impetus for the request came after both Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi performed at the closing ceremony of the recent Commonwealth Games in Black Sabbath's hometown of Birmingham. The letter is also signed by members of the Birmingham City Council and reads as follows: "Please forgive the direct nature of this letter. We, the undersigned humble...
  • Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler: “Heavy Metal” Was Initially a “Sarcastic” Term

    05/27/2022 9:04:18 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 15 replies
    Yahoo News! ^ | Thu, May 26, 2022 | Jon Hadusek
    Considering Black Sabbath are largely responsible for inventing heavy metal as we know it, Butler’s remarks are intriguing. In his estimation, the label “heavy metal” was used in a slightly derogatory context in early 1970s and Black Sabbath got “stuck with it.” “When we were on tour in America — I think it was the second tour in the [United] States — I read this review, and the guy said, ‘This isn’t music; it sounds like a bunch of heavy metal being smashed together.'” Geezer recalled in a new interview with Eddie Trunk. “Somehow that got over to England, and...
  • Which Band Is More Important: DEEP PURPLE Or BLACK SABBATH? ROB HALFORD Weighs In

    12/22/2021 6:11:23 PM PST · by DoodleBob · 61 replies
    Blabbermouth ^ | December 22, 2021 | N/A
    In a recent interview with Spain's Mariskal Rock, JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford was asked which fellow British band was more important to him personally while he was coming up in the music scene in Birmingham, England in the late 1960s and early 1970s, DEEP PURPLE or BLACK SABBATH. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "They're all important to me for all of the styles and variety of music that they presented. I was naturally drawn to SABBATH because of the heaviness. If you put PURPLE on and then you put SABBATH on, or SABBATH on then PURPLE, they're both...
  • Heavy metal producer Martin Birch dies aged 71: Tributes are paid to man behind albums by bands including Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and Whitesnake

    08/10/2020 8:54:24 PM PDT · by wastedyears · 16 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 8/10/2020 | Katie Feehan
    Tributes have been paid to Martin Birch, the British music producer behind iconic albums from bands including Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. Black Sabbath founding members Geezer Butler and Tony Iommi joined Whitesnake frontman David Coverdale in conveying their sympathies after news broke at the weekend.
  • Ozzy Ozbourne to Play Show in Israel, Wife Says “We Play Where We Want to Play, That’s It”

    02/19/2018 7:59:18 AM PST · by judeasamaria · 34 replies
    Lev Haolam ^ | February 18, 2018 | Lev Haolam
    World-renowned British rocker, Ozzy Osbourne will be coming to Israel this year to play a show to his Israeli fans. Ozzy Osbourne will be performing in Tel Aviv’s Live Park on July 8 of this year as part of his “No More Tours 2” farewell tour, along with members of Black Sabbath, the iconic band he founded and fronted 49 years ago. Ozzy has earned the informal title of “Godfather of Heavy Metal,” due to his overwhelming influence on the music genre. In a recent press conference posted to Facebook, Ozzy and his wife, Sharon Osbourne, were asked if they...
  • Black Sabbath bids New England farewell at Xfinity Center

    08/27/2016 7:45:40 AM PDT · by Mariner · 50 replies
    The Boston Globe ^ | August 27th, 2016 | By Sean L. Maloney
    Forty-five years to the month after making its New England debut, pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath took to the stage at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield to bid the road farewell. From the perfect weather to a deep-cut-rich set list, it was a best-case concert scenario that highlighted the massive place in musical culture the band has occupied for the better part of five decades. The audience ranged in age from fired-up retirees to one particularly enthusiastic preschooler in hot-pink ear protection. Families galore sang along with every word, and more than a few friendships on display predated the...
  • 30 yrs. later, bats get their revenge on Ozzy: Rocker cannot convert barn where they live

    05/05/2014 7:49:23 PM PDT · by smokingfrog · 35 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | 5/5/2014 | Richard Marsden
    It's a little over 30 years ago that Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat in front of a live audience. Now it appears the little animals have had their revenge. They could have scuppered his plans to convert a historic barn on his £5million estate into a two-bedroom home. The former Black Sabbath singer’s representatives are understood to have met planning officers to discuss redevelopment of the 19th century building. But brown long-eared bats have been discovered in the building. Osbourne, now 65, bit the head off a bat while performing in America in 1982. He was said...
  • Playing Black Sabbath on Tesla coils with an iron guitar, standing in a Faraday suit

    02/07/2012 9:11:12 PM PST · by bigbob · 38 replies
    boingboing ^ | 2-4-12 | Cory Doctrow
    If you need me to explain why you should spend 1:26 watching a man wielding an iron guitar in a Faraday suit playing Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" on MIDI-compatible Tesla coils, you are in the wrong place, pal. ArcAttack is performing a Tesla Coil version of Iron Man by Black Sabbath. The Guitar Player is using an iron guitar in a faraday cage ArcAttack testing out the world's first lighting-proof MIDI guitar in their warehouse in Austin, Texas. The MIDI signal from the guitar is routed through a fiber optic cable to control the Tesla coils. Update: From the comments,...
  • Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi diagnosed with cancer

    01/11/2012 5:16:57 AM PST · by aomagrat · 7 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 10 January 2012 | Sean Michaels
    Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has cancer. The 63-year-old musician is "upbeat and determined" after being diagnosed with early-stage lymphoma, and intends to proceed with his band's comeback album and tour.
  • Metal legend Ronnie James Dio dead at 67

    05/16/2010 2:57:01 PM PDT · by devane617 · 173 replies · 4,773+ views
    breitbart ^ | 05/16/2010
    Ronnie James Dio, whose soaring vocals, poetic lyrics and mythic tales of a never-ending struggle between good and evil broke new ground in heavy metal, died Sunday, according to a statement from his wife and manager. He was 67.