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The late rocker would want music to be played “really loud” in his honor.
Key Points
- Sharon Osbourne gave a rare interview on the one-year anniversary of husband Ozzy Osbourne’s death.
- The former talk show host said the late rocker would want fans to “head bang” in honor of his memory.
- Sharon got emotional when remembering what the city of Birmingham meant to her husband.
Sharon Osbourne got emotional on the first anniversary of her husband Ozzy Osbourne’s death — and shared how the late rocker would want to be remembered.
“As Ozzy would say, ‘When you want to remember me, just yank up the music really loud. As loud as you can get it, and just head bang,’” Sharon said on Wednesday, sitting down with the BBC in Birmingham, England.
Through tears, Sharon explained why she wanted to spend the first anniversary of Ozzy’s death in his hometown.
“I can’t forget what Birmingham did for Ozzy,” she said, choking up. “It’s such a huge part of my kids and me and everything. It’s who my husband is. What he is. Will always be.”
The city celebrated the Black Sabbath musician’s legacy with the first-ever Ozzy Day on Wednesday. Fans traveled to the city and visited locations connected to the late musician, including the city’s New Street station. An inflatable Ozzy also kept vigil, looking over the city.
Ozzy’s family confirmed in a statement to Entertainment Weekly on July 22, 2025, that he died at age 76. It was later confirmed that the musician’s cause of death was cardiac arrest and acute myocardial infarction. Coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease (he was diagnosed in 2019) with autonomic dysfunction were listed as joint causes on his official death certificate.
Three weeks before his death, Ozzy took the stage one final time, performing at Birmingham’s Villa Park for the Back to the Beginning benefit concert.
“Ozzy knew that he was dying. He was told two weeks before the show that he was dying, and they said ‘don’t do the show,’” Sharon recalled on Wednesday. “He said, ‘Yeah, right. Get out of here.’”
Sharon called Ozzy’s final show “a gift” because his “greatest love affair was with the audience.” The July 2025 concert had Ozzy performing — both solo and alongside the original members of Black Sabbath (Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward) — from a large throne adorned with bats.
“That’s the way he wanted to go out,” Sharon said of her husband’s final performance. “Just one more time and he got to do that — and he smashed it.”
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The 10-hour event raised money for three charities, including Cure Parkinson’s, Acorns Children’s Hospice, and the Birmingham Children’s Hospital because, as Sharon said, Ozzy was “a really good bloke with a big heart and he wanted to give back.”
The former talk show host also reflected on the final two weeks of Ozzy’s life, saying he was “the happiest I had ever seen him.” She added, “It was just so great to see him every day smiling.”
Sharon and Ozzy wed in July 1982. She celebrated their first wedding anniversary since his death in an Instagram post earlier this month. They shared daughters Aimee and Kelly along with son Jack. Ozzy was also the father to Elliot, Jessica, and Louis, whom he shared with ex-wife Thelma Riley.
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