On this day in 2025 – Ozzy Osbourne died at the age of 76, just seventeen days after his final live performance with Black Sabbath at the Back to the Beginning farewell concert. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2003, which he publicly revealed in January 2020. He rose to prominence during the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath. The band was highly influential in the development of heavy metal music, in particular their critically acclaimed releases Paranoid (1970), Master of Reality (1971), and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973). In the early 2000s, Osbourne became a reality television star when he appeared in the MTV reality show The Osbournes alongside his wife and manager Sharon and two of their children, Kelly and Jack.