Prince of Darkness and forefather of heavy metal Ozzy Osbourne died this week aged 76 –just three weeks after his final performance with his band Black Sabbath

Ozzy Osbourne used Black Sabbath's hard rock music as a way to point out hypocrisy in Western society and modern religion.

The rock singer, who died on Tuesday, has several singles and albums in the charts, both as a solo artist and with his band Black Sabbath.

Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of Darkness, has died at 75. From metal pioneer to reality TV icon, he changed music, fame, and family — forever.

After selling millions upon millions of albums with Black Sabbath and his solo projects as well as benefiting from Ozzfest proceeds, Osbourne was in a better place financially than he could have ever imagined back in his cow-killer days, but life remained a challenge. Instead of postindustrial decay holding him back, this time it was all him.

Ozzy Osbourne’s decades-long love story with Sharon Osbourne is practically rock canon—a tale of chaos, devotion, and co-dependency played out

The clean-cut crooner and the Prince of Darkness became unlikely friends while living next to each other in Beverly Hills

If a single individual could be said to embody the attributes of heavy metal, it would be Ozzy Osbourne, who has died aged 76 after suffering from Parkinson’s disease and other disorders. In a career stretching across six decades,