Bassist Terence “Geezer” Butler, guitarist Tony Iommi, lead singer Ozzy Osbourne, and drummer Bill Ward were all between the ages of 18 and 20 when they began playing together in Birmingham. Naming themselves after an Italian horror film in early 1969,

Jack Black gave Ozzy Osbourne a raucous Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction in October, just nine months before the legendary heavy metal rocker’s death at age 76 on Tuesday. Osbourne said he was looking forward to Black’s speech inducting him into the avowed institution as a solo artist,

Fellow legends of heavy metal along with stars of music, film and TV are honouring the British rocker following his death aged 76

2. “War Pigs” (from the album Paranoid, 1970). Because there was such demand for more Black Sabbath product after the surprising success of the debut album, Black Sabbath had to churn out a ...

But even for Black Sabbath, Osbourne went too far, and in 1979, the band’s other members fired him. In the solo career that came after, Osbourne once bit the head off a live bat onstage. Image