ozzy osbourne Archive
16 Sep 2025
Five Top 40 Singles from Black Sabbath (No, Really.)
Few listeners would ever consider Black Sabbath a “singles band.” Pioneers of drop-tuned, doomy heavy metal, the Birmingham, England quartet exerted a massive influence on hard rock of the 1970s […]
09 Feb 2024
Take Five: Ozzy in the Eighties
After nearly a decade fronting metal pioneers Black Sabbath, singer Ozzy Osbourne was dismissed from the band he co-founded. But after a period in which he (more or less) got […]
04 Mar 2019
Ozzy Osbourne Says Farewell But Not Goodbye
If Black Sabbath didn’t single-handedly invent a particular kind of heavy rock, the Birmingham, England group certainly refined it. Beginning with the group’s self-titled 1970 debut, Black Sabbath proved itself […]