According to a statement from his family, Ozzy Osbourne passed away at the age of 76 “surrounded by love.”

In 2019, the singer received a Parkinson’s disease diagnosis.

He spearheaded the heavy metal movement, a darker and more profound subgenre of hard rock that swept the globe in the 1960s and 1970s, as the frontman of Black Sabbath.

He was a controversial character because of his dramatic stage presence, which included once biting off a bat’s head and dressing up as the Prince of Darkness. Continues…