”I can not believe it's true!” My dear, dear friend Ozzy has passed away just weeks after our show at Villa Park".
So writes Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi on Instagram about his Sabbath colleague Ozzy Osbourne.
The message that 76-year-old Osbourne had passed away came on Tuesday evening, just one week after Black Sabbath reunited on stage in Birmingham, 20 years after the heavy metal band's last performance.
”It's such crushing news that I don't find the words. There will never be anyone like him again. Geezer, Bill and I have lost our brother”, writes Iommi.
Also bassist Geezer Butler mourns Osbourne.
”Farewell, dear friend. Thanks for all these years – we had really fun. Four kids from Aston, who would have believed it? I'm so glad we got to do it one last time”, he writes on Instagram.
Also drummer Bill Ward expresses his grief:
”Where do I find you now? In memories, in our unspoken hugs, in our missed conversations? No, you are forever in my heart”.
