"I didn’t realize then that I would never see Ozzy again after that night," Butler writes of the July 5 "Back to the Beginning" show in England.

Just weeks after closing the curtain on Black Sabbath’ s final show, Terence 'Geezer' Butler finds himself in a quieter, more private stage, one marked not by roaring amplifiers but by profound loss. On July 22, news broke that Ozzy Osbourne, the band’s inimitable frontman and Terence’s friend for almost six decades, had died at age 76.