One year after Ozzy Osbourne's death, his family continues to talk about the void left by the Black Sabbath frontman. On the day Birmingham celebrates the first Ozzy DaySharon Osbourne remembered her husband in an interview with the BBC, while her daughter Kelly took to her social media channels to reflect on mourning.
“I would like people to remember how funny he was: funny, charismatic and authentic,” Sharon told BBC Radio WM, barely holding back her emotion. Then he remembered what, he says, would have been the artist's own wish: «As Ozzy would say: “When you want to remember me, turn my music up as loud as possible, and head bang”».
Sharon also described her husband as “authentic,” a person who “never tried to be anything other than what he was” and who “told the truth about everything.” «He was really sincere. And it was funny. We could have the worst arguments in the world, but we always ended up laughing because he said something so absurd that we burst out laughing,” he underlined.
The memory is then inevitably linked to Birmingham, the city where Ozzy was born and which had hosted the farewell concert a few weeks before his death Back to the Beginning: «This is the home of heavy metal. It's Ozzy's home, the place where he was born, what he loved. THE'Ozzy Day it couldn't work anywhere else. He loved this city, he loved its people. He was proud to be from Birmingham. Point”.
In the same hours Kelly Osbourne also remembered her father with a long message published on Instagram. More than a tribute, a reflection on how pain changes those who remain: «I don't only mourn the father I lost. I mourn the person I was before death taught my heart its name.” And he adds: “We think that mourning means missing someone who is no longer here, but the deepest pain is waking up every day longing for the version of yourself that died with that person.”
Among the most touching passages of the text there is also the one in which Kelly describes the void left by the death of his parent: «I miss the person I was before my father's death. Before my heart became a home for absence. Before every memory became both a blessing and a wound.” And he concludes: «Perhaps this is the cruelest truth about mourning. Not that death takes away the people we love, but that it leaves us to live as ghosts of the people we were.”
Ozzy Osbourne died on July 22, 2025, less than three weeks after the last concert with the original Black Sabbath lineup at Villa Park. And twelve months after his death, Birmingham dedicates a day of celebration to the Prince of Darkness.
