It’s eerie reading this quote now because, as it turns out, that’s pretty close to what happened: Less than three weeks after headlining a banner farewell show in Birmingham dubbed Back to the Beginning, Osbourne died at the age of 76.

Ozzy Osbourne died at the age of 76. The heavy metal icon was responsible for more than 70,000,000 album sales about half in his solo career.

So I really came to know the band’s original lead singer and most iconic figure, Ozzy Osbourne, when he left the band to launch his solo career in 1980. That year, if I was listening to metal, it was either Motorhead’s Ace of Spades or Ozzy’s debut Blizzard of Ozz.

The No More Tears sessions found the Ozzy camp in high spirits and ready to lay down a record that would take the Prince of Darkness' solo career to new heights

Ozzy Osbourne had a long friendship with Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister, and the two musicians now have something eerily in common in death. Both hard rock legends died exactly 17 days after powering through their final concerts amid illness.

Before his Feb. 1982 concert at the Coliseum, Pam Smelter, coliseum manager told the Times, “He’s already been told not to pull anything” in El Paso.

Over two sets — one with the members of Black Sabbath and another comprised of solo tracks — Osbourne performed ten classic songs including “Paranoid,” “Iron Man,” “

The sweet tribute, which came from Osbourne's former daughter-in-law, featured many never-before-seen photos of the late rocker.