Ozzy Osbourne, the legendary heavy metal singer and BLACK SABBAH frontman whose star turn on reality TV endeared him to a new generation of fans, has died, according to the Associated Press. He was 76 years old.
News of Osbourne’s death comes 17 days after he performed his final show in Birmingham, England, alongside his former Black Sabbath bandmates at the Back to the Beginning benefit concert.
He had also recently announced a new memoir titled “Last Rites,” which was due out Oct. 7 via Grand Central Publishing.
Osbourne was previously diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2019 and said in an interview then with “Good Morning America” that it had been “terribly challenging.”
“It’s PRKN 2,” his wife Sharon said at the time. “There’s so many different types of Parkinson’s. It’s not a death sentence by any stretch of the imagination, but it does affect certain nerves in your body. And it’s — it’s like you have a good day, a good day, and then a really bad day.”
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