Ozzy Osbourne, Birmingham and Black Sabbath
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Tributes are pouring in from music legends and celebrities after Ozzy Osbourne, the rock and heavy metal icon turned reality show star, has died at the age of 76, according to his family.
Lady Gaga, Coldplay and Alice Cooper honour Ozzy Osbourne during concerts - During a concert in Nashville, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin led a rendition of Changes by Black Sabbath in tribute to the heavy metal star.
Black Sabbath "have lost our brother", says band's co-founder, weeks after farewell gig in their home city Birmingham.
Osbourne presided over a bill that gave equal representation to almost every strain of metal that Black Sabbath begat, its diversity illustrating how the band didn’t just make a scene: They forged a subculture.
Elton John says Ozzy Osbourne was ‘in the pantheon of rock gods’ - He joined Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood and other famous faces in paying tribute to the Black Sabbath singer.
Before he was a pioneering reality television star, he was a pioneering heavy metal singer. But Ozzy Osbourne’s music has always felt bigger than his celebrity.