The singer of heavy metal Ozzy Osbourne died on Tuesday at age 76, days after saying goodbye from a stage in a concert with the original members of the Black Sabbath group. “You are so good in this scenario. You have no idea,” he said to the public, sitting on a throne heavy. Metallica, Foo Fighters and Billy Idol, among others, shared in their social networks farewell and gratitude messages.
“When I was in high school I discovered Sabbath. (The song) War Pigs He was scary and fascinating at the same time. It was Ozzy’s voice that transported me to a dark universe. A great escape route, ”wrote Mike McCready, pearl jam guitarist on Instagram.
The Metallica band, also on Instagram, highlighted the “incredible legacy” that leaves and pointed out that “it is impossible to express in words what Ozzy Osbourne has meant for Metallica.” “Hero, icon, pioneer, inspiration, mentor and, above all, friend.”
The rock and roll, wrote the band Foo Fighters in its profile, would not be the same, neither in terms of sound or in terms of fun, Sin Osbourne. “Without words,” read in Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day. Ronnie Wood, guitarist of the Rolling Stones, recalled the last performance of the so -called “Prince of Tinieblas”: “What a beautiful farewell concert had in Back to the Beginning, in Birmingham.” Billy Idol also highlighted that moment on stage: “Ozzy embodied the spirit of rock and roll and acted until the end, as we could all see.” Robert Plant said he had changed “The Planet of Rock.”
The Panther band also paid tribute to Osbourne with a message in which he highlighted his influence on the history of the metal: “Thank you for everything you did for the metal and for Panther. We wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you. ”
In another different musical record, Elton John said that Osbourne has earned “a place in the pantheon of the rock gods,” defined it as a “authentic legend” and added: “It was also one of the funniest people I have met.” Meanwhile, the Motörhead band fired him in networks as “a key figure in the hard rock and the heavy metaland also a great guy. ”
Fans of the musician gathered on the Hollywood Walk of Fame to pay tribute, placing flowers in his star as a sign of respect and affection. Born in Birmingham, the United Kingdom, Osbourne achieved fame in the seventies as vocalist of Black Sabbath, a band with which he defined the sound of metal modern.
In the eighties he initiated a successful solo career and in 2002 he also became a television star with the reality The Osbournes. His health had deteriorated in recent years, after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2010 and facing multiple surgeries.
Here you can read the Ozzy Osbourne obituary, the most charismatic voice of the heavy metalby musical journalist Carlos Marcos.