Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy Osbourne's wailing voice fronted Black Sabbath's slow, doom-laden riffs and helped invent heavy metal. After he was fired from Sabbath in 1979, he went solo with young guitar hero Randy Rhoads, whose classically inspired playing lit up Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman, with 'Crazy Train' and 'Mr. Crowley'.

Rhoads died in a plane crash in 1982, but Ozzy kept going with guitarists Jake E. Lee and Zakk Wylde, scoring a big hit with 'Mama, I'm Coming Home' from No More Tears. He later found a new audience through the reality show The Osbournes and the Ozzfest tour, and played a farewell show with the original Black Sabbath in Birmingham in July 2025, weeks before his death.