Two of Black Sabbath’s co-founders have shared tributes to Ozzy Osbourne following his death.
Tommy Iommi, the band’s lead guitarist, said he was in disbelief at the news.
“It’s just such heartbreaking news that I can’t really find the words, there won’t ever be another like him. Geezer, Bill and myself have lost our brother.”
Terence “Geezer” Butler, Black Sabbath’s bassist and primary lyricist, thanked Osbourne for “all those years – we had some great fun”.
“Four kids from Aston – who’d have thought, eh? So glad we got to do it one last time, back in Aston. Love you.”
Heavy metal ‘didn’t exist’ before Ozzy’s Black Sabbath
Music journalist Matt Charlton tells Sky News how Osbourne’s band “invented a whole genre”.
“Heavy mental didn’t exist before Black Sabbath started playing,” he says. “Its name came from when they were touring America. It came from a bad review that said [they] sounded like heavy metal clanking together.
“They thought, ‘well why not? Let’s take that and run with it’. And so a whole genre was born.
“Guns N’ Roses, Metallica, all the stuff that followed… it wouldn’t have happened without Ozzy.”
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