In addition to the live tributes and heartfelt messages shared online, many fans showed their appreciation and love for Ozzy with makeshift memorials at his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles as well as the Black Sabbath bench in the band's hometown of Birmingham, England.

If you polled the public about Ozzy Osbourne in the 1970s and ’80s, you were likely to hear he was a self-destructive rock-and-roll hedonist, a literal emissary of Satan, or a first-ballot contender for coolest and craziest human alive.

Legendary Rocker, 77, Said Ozzy Osbourne Wasn't in 'Great Shape' Days Before He Died originally appeared on Parade. Legendary rocker Alice Cooper noted that Ozzy Osbourne wasn't in the best shape before he died at the age of 76.

Pioneering heavy metal musician Ozzy Osbourne, who has died at age 76, made a lot of headlines with his visits to Green Bay in the 1980s.

The original Black Sabbath lineup — Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward – reunited on July 5 for the Back to the Beginning concert in their hometown of Birmingham, England. The band performed before an audience of 42,000 at Villa Park, marking their first show together since 2005.

The architect of heavy metal with Black Sabbath, an even bigger solo star, and one of LA's original reality TV favourites, starring in The Osbournes - tributes are now being paid to the peerless Ozzy Osbourne following his death at 76.

" is one of the more sentimental songs among the group's heavy metal anthems. In 2003, Osbourne and Kelly released a duet of the track rewritten to match their own story. The tender father-daughter remake served as a microcosm for the rocker's contradictions: a harsh,