A unique voice in the history of rockcapable of scoring an era with his profile as an unparalleled animal animal and the stigma as a cursed artist, between alcohol drugs and (presumed) Luciferian messages. The world of music and millions of fans around the world say goodbye to Ozzy OsbourneHeavy Metal legend and historic frontman of the British Black Sabbath band, Died today at 76 years after a life of successes and excesses: condensed in the satanic label of Prince of Darkness (Prince of Darkness) accredited to him in the roaring years as a second name. The news was released by the family in the United Kingdom, and then bounced in the USA – where Osbourne lived for a long time – and elsewhere in the planet. «With sadness, more than with what the words can say, we make known that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne à died this morning. He was with his family, surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our privacy right now ». A short message, which triggered the inevitable flow of reactions in the name of pain and celebration by many other musicians, public personalities and ordinary people. Born in Birmingham in 1948 in an English working class family and recorded at the registry office like John Michael Osbourne, he approaches music in the adolescence years listening to the Beatles.
The debut on the great stages is in 1970, with the foundation in the city of origin of the Black Sabbath: pioneering group of the hard rock and the Heavy Metal founded on the ashes of a first youth band, the Polka Tulk Blues Band, together with the fellow citizens Tony Iommi (guitarist of Italian family roots and co -author of many hits), Geezer Butler. (bassist) and Bill Ward (drummer). An adventure in the name of a provocation screaming on the scenes, but also of an extraordinary ability of musical innovation, which was born by borrowing the name of the complex from the American translation of a horror film by Mario Bava, ‘The three faces of the egg. And immediately leads to albums sold in tens of millions of copies such as Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master of Reality or Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Voice and leader on the band of the band, Ozzy remains with the companions of Birmingham from ’70 to 1978. And then he actually expelled after having sunk in the Gorgo of addictions, from alcohol to drugs. A precarious period will also follow for his own mental health, and therefore the recovery under the pragmatic protector wing of his wife Sharon, who has also become his manager. Behind her push, he puts herself back on sixth, changes the record company, moves permanently to America and launches from the 1980s to a new solo career: overall not less lucky, marked by various collaborations, albeit not without ups and downs. On the other hand, there is no lack of sporadic reunion with the Black Sabbath, from the first followed to the ‘pacè of 1985, to other seized on tour and concerts between 1997 and 2006. But without new collective albums. Until the first stop of 2010, on the final return with the 2011 Black Sabbath, at the announcement of the dissolution of the 2017 group. Shortly afterwards the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease arrives for Ozzy, destined to mark the progressive decline of his health in recent years, towards the final outcome. However, a trajectory interrupted just two weeks ago, on July 5, from a memorable concert-event of greeting to the scenes organized in his honor in the face of a crowd of old and new fans at Villa Park, the stadium of the Aston Villa of his native Birmingham. A tribute strongly desired by Sharon and Tony Iommi, who saw the original formation of the band, aged but not doma, recompose, and during which the old prince of darkness gave a fund, as far as possible, to the latest energies together with the other three. Alternating on stage with legendary groups, and children of their experience, from the metal to the Guns N ‘Roses, to Slayer, to the panther, to others.