Ozzy Osbourne

John Michael Osbourne, Birmingham, 1948–2025. The voice on the records that named heavy metal, then a solo career that doubled as the genre’s best A&R department — the run of guitarists who came through his band reshaped metal at least twice.

We cover Ozzy as a living system, not an obituary: the Black Sabbath seed, the solo-years talent pipeline, and an ending — seventeen days after the perfect farewell show — that felt like he’d scripted it. Not bad for the guy everyone spent five decades calling a madman.