Ozzy Osbourne

Hate Heavy Metal,don't like drug takers or heavy drinkers.....but there was something in Ozzy that I fell in love with. What a guy x

Never heard of him.

emilie

Never heard of him.

I never understand why people feel the need to post on a thread like this just to say that. Why bother?

Me neither.

emilie
Nor even seek out a thread of no interest just to comment negatively?

Allira

Me neither.

emilie
Nor even seek out a thread of no interest just to comment negatively?

When you’ve got nothing better to do
Hunt out a thread of no interest to you.

Everyone who has spoken about him on TV has said what a lovely person he was. He said hearing The Beatles made him want to get into music. That makes him more endearing to me.

As someone who really has no interest in the type of music Ozzy Osbourne represented I feel you really had to have been brought up by wolves to say you had never heard of him.
What a stupid statement.

RIP Ozzy.
I cast my mind back to where I spent many a Saturday night at the local rugby club “headbanging” to Paranoid, amongst other songs of the same genre.
Such sad news.
Condolences to Sharon and the family 🖤

The mechanical bull stands proud in New Street station in Birmingham. It was named after Ozzy and is a fine tribute.

Overated & a bit of a twit. 😶

Ilovedogs22

Overated & a bit of a twit. 😶

Lovely, for a thread that wants to pay their respects that remark was totally uncalled for.

Mum used to say ‘if you can’t say anything good about someone, say nothing’. A couple of posters could take her advice!

Loved the ‘wolves’ UTTB - I was about to post living under a rock, but the wolves is better!

Everyone the press have spoken to about has said what a lovely man he was. Nothing like his onstage persona. Heavy metal is not my thing but I have always taken an interest in Ozzy as he grew up not far from where I did and because of our connection to his brother. Ozzy was said to have cried when he saw how many people turned out to see him at Villa Park.

His on stage persona was just that, a performance.It wasn’t my kind of thing but he had so many fans with Black Sabbath and then a solo artist that he must have been doing something right.I think Sharon saved him, and considering his drug use he did well to get to 76.He seemed to be a nice guy to all who knew him.

I’ve read that he lived on Lodge Road which is next to the street where I spent my childhood, too. Wonder if I ever passed him in the street? I’m surprised that his childhood home still exists as the area where I lived was all pulled down.

Many metal/indie/rock artists are the same - they have their stage persona, which can often be very different from the 'real' person. Ozzy himself often said there was John Osbourne - and then there was 'Ozzy'. It reminds me of the late Keith Flint of The Prodigy and how everyone said was a lovely, kind, genuine, quiet person he was, as opposed to his on-stage persona. I think that's probably true for a lot of artists - it's a 'costume' (sometimes quite literally in some cases) which they don in order to become that stage performer.

Keith Flint VV. Now you’re talking, what a gentleman and such a sad ending. Prodigy played Glasto and dedicated their performance to him.

RIP Ozzy, you will be missed by many but most of all by your loving family

Georgesgran

Keith Flint VV. Now you’re talking, what a gentleman and such a sad ending. Prodigy played Glasto and dedicated their performance to him.

They were amazing weren’t they. I’ve never been a great Prodigy fan but thought they were brilliant and am now a convert.

The hearse containing Ozzy's coffin will be brought through Birmingham City Centre tomorrow. I believe it will stop at the Black Sabbath bench on Broad Street which looks like this today.

There’s a livestream from 1pm ..sorry don’t know how to copy the link but it’s a BCC Communications Team on Nextdoor

Bea65

There’s a livestream from 1pm ..sorry don’t know how to copy the link but it’s a BCC Communications Team on Nextdoor

Thanks. Managed to watch it. RIP Ozzy…

Tax thieves and druggies are not people I admire. I'm fed up of Americans coming back to this country to use the NHS in their old age. Americans are the biggest tax thieves in our country. They are taking over UK surgeries, and reducing the number of GPs employed, not to mention are the biggest tax avoiders.

Realky

Tax thieves and druggies are not people I admire. I'm fed up of Americans coming back to this country to use the NHS in their old age. Americans are the biggest tax thieves in our country. They are taking over UK surgeries, and reducing the number of GPs employed, not to mention are the biggest tax avoiders.

Is this relevant to Ozzy?

I know we shouldn’t speak ill of the dead but I didn’t like his record for animal cruelty.