This news hit me harder than I expected. Black Sabbath has always been my favorite band. I first heard Ozzy on a tape my friend Mike copied for me. Paranoid on one side, Blizzard of Ozz on the other. I must have been 12. I listened to that tape countless times.
Unlike most of my other rock heroes, Ozzy never let me down. Neither musically or personally.
I was listening to Black Sabbath today when I heard the news. Lately, I’d been playing a lot of his music again after some Back to the Beginning concert clips showed up in my YouTube feed. My love for Ozzy’s music had just come back to life. And now this.
I don’t really care about celebrities, but I’m a huge Ozzy fan. I’m going to miss him a lot.