RIP Ozzy Osbourne.

[Hardbopjazz]

He’s passed away just now at the age of 76.  

[Kevin Bresnahan]

I was never much of a fan of his music, other than when they played "Crazy Train" before the New England Patriots came out of their tunnel, but he was a riot in his family's reality show. i used to watch it all the time.

[ghost of miles]

 

[Pim]

I like Ozzy. Not a collector or huge fan but I know all the classics by him and Sabbath and their all in my rock/metal playlist. He meant a lot for that music (also with Ozzfest). I also enjoyed the reality series which is probably not an example of quality tv but always made me laugh when I was a teenager. With his lifestyle it surprises me he got that old. Rest in peace 

[Holy Ghost]

RIP! This is very sad news, but Ozzy hasn't been well for some time, so this doesn't come as an absolute shock to me. But still, it's OZZY! Huge Black Sabbath fan, but only got to see Ozzy perform live in '85, during his flashier phase. Encores were Sabbath tunes, War Pigs and Iron Man, I believe were them.

 

[gvopedz]

Rest in peace.

[mjazzg]

He was the soundtrack of my teenage years. Thanks Ozzy!

Not many artists define a genre, Sabbath did.

[JSngry]

Not at all a fan of the music, but certainly a hoot as a Pop Culture figure.

RIP, and lay off the bats up there!

[Aggie87]

47 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Not many artists define a genre, Sabbath did.

This is the truth.  Sabbath was the first, and had a sound that nobody had prior.  Ozzy was great for the first few years of his solo career, but gradually morphed into a caricature of himself over the following decades - to me at least.  

But early Sabbath and his first couple of solo albums were very good, in that genre.

Rest in Peace, Ozzy.

[felser]

R.I.P.  The first three albums were musically enjoyable to me (along the lines of the first few Grand Funk Railroad albums), though some of the lyrics on the first album were troubling (though cartoonish, and "The Wizard" is really muddled).  The second and third album were in a different light, with "After Forever" lyrically being outright gospel.    The fourth album was so horrible I checked out at 18 and never bothered to pay attention again.  But 'Paranoid' was a landmark and will always have a place on my shelves.

[Dub Modal]

Playing some Sabbath in his memory. NIB is still a great tune and Children and the Grave (among others) were a template for heavy metal in the decades to come. Saw the '99 Sabbath reunion live and it was a great show. RIP. Helluva life 

[Stompin at the Savoy]

Ozzy Osbourne did not become popular until my college years and that was the period I got into jazz, so I never really listened to him.  I did not own a tv in the 70's or 80's so I never watched the show.  I was reading one of the obits in one of the papers and it mentioned several of his supposedly seminal hits so I listened out of curiosity.  I admit that a lot of stuff I liked as a kid in the 60's and 70's no longer appeals to me but gee whiz this is trashy stuff and not in a good way.  I know Ozzie did not play guitar and I am not the greatest player but the playing on that stuff makes me look like a wildly imaginative and hip guitarist.  Truly awful.

Edited 12 hours ago by Stompin at the Savoy

[romualdo]

RIP Ozzy - Master of Reality was my fav but Paranoid always makes me smile, especially the lyrics

saw Sabbath live here in Brisbane back in '74 (at the legendary Festival Hall), even have some pics (transparencies) of the concert somewhere

[EKE BBB]

RIP, Prince of Darkness. Big fan of Black Sabbath’s first four/five discs and of Ozzy’s two first solo discs. As already mentioned, they were able to initiate and define a style. And they were so influential for so many groups for decades…

[gvopedz]

Great to see Ozzy's obituary on the front page of today's New York Times.  The obituary continues inside the newspaper (it fills up an entire page inside the newspaper).  Of course I bought a copy.

[Holy Ghost]

1 hour ago, gvopedz said:

Great to see Ozzy's obituary on the front page of today's New York Times.  The obituary continues inside the newspaper (it fills up an entire page inside the newspaper).  Of course I bought a copy.

Wall Street Journal too, as well as all the papers here in northeast Ohio, even the paper in the county I live in. CNN online has a nice area devoted to Ozzy as well.  

8 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

RIP, Prince of Darkness. Big fan of Black Sabbath’s first four/five discs and of Ozzy’s two first solo discs. As already mentioned, they were able to initiate and define a style. And they were so influential for so many groups for decades…

Yes, agree. first five albums, plus a six, Sabotage being my favorite:

The birth of thrash metal can be heard here:

Becomes clear, especially early Metallica that they wouln't have sounded the way they did, if it wasn't for this track. I believe Metallica played Symptom of the Universe at the Birmingham Black Sabbath festival. 

About Ozzy, agree Blizzard of Oz and Diary of a Madman (Bark at the Moon gets an honorable mention) sent Ozzy into the stratusphere.    

Edited 1 hour ago by Holy Ghost
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[greggery peccary]

I think that this is an incredible video. The power of music.