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"He said he would be coming to Birmingham again … We were hoping to see him this week," the rocker's two surviving sisters Jean and Gillian recalled
Bassist Terence “Geezer” Butler, guitarist Tony Iommi, lead singer Ozzy Osbourne, and drummer Bill Ward were all between the ages of 18 and 20 when they began playing together in Birmingham. Naming themselves after an Italian horror film in early 1969,
Ozzy Osbourne, the iconic British rock singer who rose to fame as the frontman of Black Sabbath, died at the age of 76 on July 22, 2025.