It was a sweltering London day in August 2022 when I met Ozzy Osbourne in person for the last time at a posh hotel near Hyde Park. I took a seat, but the Prince of Darkness had to lay down since he was exhausted from his triumphant comeback performance in his hometown of Birmingham the night before,

Along with “Blizzard of Ozz,” the album that bore this title track is Osbourne’s best seller. The single, meanwhile, is ushered in with a gripping bass line and an undercurrent of keyboards until Osbourne makes his grand vocal entrance, all sneers and snarls.

At the end of her July 22 Mayhem Ball performance in San Francisco, Gaga exposed an Ozzy Osbourne T-shirt underneath a black leather jacket, then played his 1980 debut solo single “Crazy Train” as she and her dancers walked a catwalk.

When I was growing up in the early 2000s, few cultural figures confused me more than Ozzy Osbourne. He was, I understood, the “Prince of Darkness,” a legendary influence upon Tool, Linkin Park, and various other fearsome and dour bands I worshipped.

Cooper fondly said the late metal great was "the prince of darkness" to his fans and "the court jester" to his friends and family

Ozzy Osbourne, the frontman of pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, died at the age of 76 on Tuesday. Osbourne's US fans are leaving flowers on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and talking about how the rock legend affected their lives.

After Ozzy shaped the sound of heavy metal, he became a reality TV star. Here's a look back at the iconic moments from his MTV show, "The Osbournes."