"I didn’t realize then that I would never see Ozzy again after that night," Butler writes of the July 5 "Back to the Beginning" show in England.

Ozzy Osbourne was known for his wild stage persona and outrageous rock star antics, but behind the scenes, he had a heart of gold, according to his longtime Black Sabbath bandmate, Geezer Butler. In an essay for The Sunday Times, Butler revealed that in real life, Osbourne was the opposite of his ...

Ozzy Osbourne reveled in being on stage a final time during his final Black Sabbath concert, just weeks before his death.

Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi said he thinks bandmate Ozzy Osbourne was "determined" to play the group's farewell show and "really just held out" to do so weeks before his death.

News of Osbourne’s death comes more than five years after he announced his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in January 2020.

Osbourne died on Tuesday at 76, just weeks after he and Black Sabbath performed at their farewell Back to the Beginning concert earlier in July.

Black Sabbath members Tony Iommi, Terence “Geezer” Butler and Bill Ward each shared tributes to frontman Ozzy Osbourne following his death on July 22, 2025 remembering their early days together and expressing gratitude for their final gig together.

The Prince of Darkness, who died Tuesday at age 76, was photographed publicly for the last time at his Black Sabbath farewell concert in Birmingham, England on July 5. The rocker took the stage in front of the 42,000-person crowd at Villa Park for what turned out to be his last performance in his lifetime.

Ozzy Osbourne's Black Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward paid tribute to the late 'Iron Man' singer after his death at age 76: 'There won't ever be another like him.'