{"id":37230,"date":"2025-07-25T16:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motivgruppe-musik.com\/?p=37230"},"modified":"2025-12-04T19:53:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:53:57","slug":"in-memoriam-ozzy-orbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motivgruppe-musik.com\/en\/2025\/07\/25\/in-memoriam-ozzy-orbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Ozzy Osbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On July 22, 2025, British rock musician “Ozzy” Osbourne died in Jordans, Great Britain, at the age of 76.
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\nOzzy (John Michael) Osbourne was born on December 3, 1948, in Birmingham. After dropping out of school and working several unskilled jobs, he formed a band with Terry Butler, Tony Iommi, and Bill Ward in 1968, which was renamed “Black Sabbath” in 1969. Similar to the bands “Led Zeppelin” and “Deep Purple”, “Black Sabbath” pushed the hard rock of the time into increasingly heavier forms and, since the release of their debut album, has been considered the founders of “heavy metal.” In the 1970s, the band’s heyday, Ozzy Osbourne’s vocals shaped the band’s sound. Due to his drug problems, “Black Sabbath” parted ways with Osbourne in 1979. Osbourne achieved some success as a solo artist in the 1980s <\/div><\/div><\/div>and 1990s and regained popularity in the early 2000s through the MTV reality series “The Osbournes”.
\nIn 1997, “Black Sabbath” reunited and toured several times with different lineups until 2017. The last concert with the original lineup, a benefit concert for a children’s hospice entitled “Back to the Beginning,” took place in Birmingham on July 5, 2025. Seventeen days after the concert, Ozzy Osbourne died at the age of 76.
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