They had planned a quiet memorial. But then Sharon Osbourne stepped forward, her hands trembling as she held a yellowed envelope. Kelly stood besides her, pale, eyes full of tears. My father…. he knew this was coming long time ago,” she said, voice breaking. Sharon then revealed a secret Ozzy had kept for decades -a truth written in a single, scaled letter, hidden in his private safe. The letter, dated 1994, began with a chilling line: “if you’re reading this, then the time has come.” No one at the funeral – not even his closet friend – could have imaged Ozzy had predicted his own death, even describing when his health would begin to fail. But the real shock was the reason: Ozzy hadn’t simply passed from age or illness…. He made a choice. A sacrifice. Sharon, who had stayed silent for years, finally confused: “Ozzy once told me, ‘I’m not afraid to die. I’m only afraid of leaving before I’ve made things right,” And he did. Even if no one ever knew.” DETAILS IN COMMENT SECTION……

Ozzy Osbourne, whose gleeful “Prince of Darkness” image made him one of the most iconic rock frontmen of all time, has died aged 76.

Ozzy Osbourne, pioneering heavy metal singer and Black Sabbath frontman,  dies at 76

A statement from the Osbourne family reads: “It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.” No cause of death was given, though Osbourne had experienced various forms of ill health in recent years.

Osbourne was one of the most notorious figures in rock: an innovator whose eerie wail helped usher in heavy metal, a showman who once bit the head off a bat on stage, an addict whose substance abuse led him to attempt to murder his wife, and latterly, a reality TV star much loved for his bemusement at family life on The Osbournes.

His death comes less than three weeks after his retirement from performance. On 5 July, Osbourne reunited with his original bandmates in the pioneering group Black Sabbath for the first time since 2005, for Back to the Beginning: an all-star farewell concert featuring some of the biggest names in metal. “I’ve been laid up for six years, and you’ve got no idea how I feel,” he told the crowd that night, referring to extensive health issues including a form of Parkinson’s and numerous surgeries on his spine. “Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”

He was born John Michael Osbourne in Aston, Birmingham, in 1948, the son of a pair of factory workers. He had a tough upbringing. As well as living in relative poverty, aged 11 he was repeatedly sexually abused by two boys: “It was terrible … It seemed to go on for ever,” he told the Mirror in 2003. He was also jailed for burglary: “I was no good at that. Fucking useless,” he admitted in 2014.

This industrial working-class environment fed into the sound of Osbourne’s defining musical project, Black Sabbath, whose heavy sound revolutionised British rock music. “We wanted to put how we thought about the world at the time,” the band’s bassist, Geezer Butler, said in 2017. “We didn’t want to write happy pop songs. We gave that industrial feeling to it.”

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