Continuing our tribute to the late great Ozzy Osbourne this week, for today’s Tuesday’s Gone, we’re throwing it back to the very earliest beginnings of

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,

T-Pain also honored Osbourne, sharing a glimpse of the legend lauding him for performing the best cover of War Pigs. He remembered the royalty in heavy metal by sharing a clip of himself performing a powerful cover of War Pigs. Adding to the moment, he highlighted Ozzy Osbourne’s appreciative remark:

While Ozzy never had country ambitions, nor did he ever dabble in the genre in any way, he was friends with Johnny Cash, and at the aforementioned, recent farewell show, the queen herself Mrs. Dolly Parton left him a special message, saying:

Butler named the jam "Black Sabbath" after a 1963 Mario Bava horror movie starring Boris Karloff. When manager Jim Simpson later began pushing them to change the band's name, since Earth was so ...

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"I didn’t realize then that I would never see Ozzy again after that night," Butler writes of the July 5 "Back to the Beginning" show in England.

Kelly Osbourne is mourning the loss of her father Ozzy following his death on Tuesday, referencing lyrics from Black Sabbath’s “Changes.” Osbourne posted the brief message to her Instagram stories on Thursday afternoon.