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“I’m, like, ‘Why are they calling me? Did every rock guitar player in Los Angeles disappear spontaneously at the same time?’” When Joe Bonamassa guested on an Ozzy Osbourne album – and couldn't quite believe it

The blues hero has reflected on their unlikely union in 2005, and why he sees Ozzy as heavy metal’s John Mayall

Guitar World

“We love you, Ozzy!” Nuno Bettencourt covers three Ozzy Osbourne classics with Extreme – and nails Randy Rhoads and Jake E. Lee’s iconic solos

Fresh from his spot at Back to the Beginning, Bettencourt is continuing to doff his cap to the Prince of Darkness’ legacy

Guitar World

“The last text I got from Oz said, ‘Zakky, sorry, it was like a madhouse back there. I didn’t see you. Thanks for everything’”: Zakk Wylde looks back on his closer-than-close relationship with Ozzy Osbourne, and their final moments together onstage

Wylde was the Black Sabbath icon's guitarist and friend for decades. He reflects on his instant connection with the Prince of Darkness, how their relationship evolved both on and offstage, and that emotional final show at Back to the Beginning

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“I’m so sorry I couldn’t spend more time with you on the weekend”: Jake E. Lee shares the last text message he received from Ozzy Osbourne

The Prince of Darkness, who passed away this week, reached out to his former guitarist after the historic Back to Beginning farewell show

Guitar World

“We were doing that riff and cracking up laughing the whole time”: Zakk Wylde on how a “joke” riff won Ozzy Osbourne his first ever Grammy

The No More Tears sessions found the Ozzy camp in high spirits and ready to lay down a record that would take the Prince of Darkness' solo career to new heights

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“I look over at Zakk and he can’t work the fretboard. I’m screaming at him, ‘It’s from liftin’ them weights!’ I didn’t realize he’d taken all the antibiotics in the bottle”: How Ozzy Osbourne and Zakk Wylde became metal’s most beloved partnership

In this GW interview from 2018, the two metal greats sat down on the eve of Ozzy’s farewell tour to reflect on their three-decade partnership, from Wylde’s audition to their wildest stage story

Guitar World

Ozzy Osbourne’s guitarists through the years: the players who served the Prince of Darkness for his classic albums and tours, in pictures

The Black Sabbath frontman shared stage and studio with a pantheon of guitar greats, and made household names out of many of his six-string sideman

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From drugs, despondency and dead bats to celebrity status and heavy metal godfather, the rollercoaster story of Ozzy Osbourne's solo career

After his turbulent exit from Black Sabbath, it turned out Ozzy's wild story was only just beginning

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“I want someone that’s hungry. I want someone who wants to go out and kick Eddie Van Halen’s ass”: Ozzy Osbourne rates his guitarists – and reflects on the highs and lows of Black Sabbath

In this classic interview from the GW archives, the Prince of Darkness speaks candidly about bandmates past and present – from Randy Rhoads to Zakk Wylde – and what he looks for in a guitarist

Guitar World

“I'm no superman, no person from another planet – I'm just a lucky guy”: Ozzy Osbourne was an extraordinary frontman and working class hero with great taste in guitar players

The Black Sabbath icon has died at the age of 76, and leaves behind a legacy of game-changing music and guitar talent

Guitar World

“We were doing War Pigs… Ozzy looks at me and mouths, ‘What are the words?’ I said, ‘Idon’t know.’ So he started singing Old MacDonald Had a Farm”: Jake E. Lee on his wild Ozzy Osbourne days and why Tony Iommi is harder to emulate than Randy Rhoads

Arthritis and the small matter of being shot didn't stop Jake E. Lee from honoring his old bandmate/boss Ozzy Osbourne and hero Tony Iommi at Sabbath's final show. And Tom Morello needed him bad

Guitar World

"It's not until Ozzy's actually there, thanking fans and getting tearful, that it sinks in." Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning: our ultimate review of their triumphant final show

Our blow-by-blow review of the biggest heavy metal show ever as Black Sabbath triumphantly bow out

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“Hearing the crowd sing the War Pigs solo gave me chills”: Back to the Beginning was Ozzy Osbourne’s night – but it was also a tribute to Tony Iommi’s singular impact on guitar music

Iommi’s world-altering riffs led to some of the all-star farewell show’s biggest singalongs – no wonder the supporting cast of guitar heroes had so much fun playing them

Guitar World

Every guitar hero, special guest and all-star cover from Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s epic Back to the Beginning farewell show

Jake E. Lee, Ronnie Wood and Nuno Bettencourt were among the six-string royalty joining the likes of Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Slayer, Tool, Pantera, Alice In Chains, Gojira for the nine-hour celebration

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Here's every single special guest and song played from Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning show

Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Slayer, Tool, Pantera, Alice In Chains, Gojira amongst a cast of superstar guests as Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath play live for the last time

Guitar World

“Tom Morello said, ‘I can’t see this going on without Jake E. Lee in there somewhere’”: Ozzy Osbourne’s last show will feature an army of heavy metal greats – but it all hinged on Jake E. Lee’s involvement

The show will mark the first time Lee and Ozzy have performed together since the 1980s

Guitar World

“With my wrist, the arthritis and everything, that would be very challenging”: Everyone is expecting Jake E. Lee to play Bark at the Moon at Ozzy Osbourne’s last show – but he has his doubts

The song may be too much for the guitar icon – but he has a backup plan in mind

Guitar World

Ozzy Osbourne’s solo band has long been a proving ground for metal’s most outstanding players. From Randy Rhoads to Zakk Wylde, via Brad Gillis and Gus G, here are all the players – and nearly players – in the Osbourne saga

Among the ranks of Ozzy's six-string sidekicks are some of the most admired and imitated rock guitarists of all time. Some have lasted for years, others a single gig, and some on both ends are part of the elite group of musicians to have been fired over the phone by…

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“The big lesson... don't be afraid to be simple and awesome... Who cares if it has four or 40,000 notes in it?”: Tom Morello pays his respects to Tony Iommi, Randy Rhoads and more in advance of this summer’s big Black Sabbath supergig

And as the event’s musical director and a Sabbath superfan, Morello proves perfectly placed to tease a few behind-the-scenes secrets…

Guitar World

“I take the job of curating this very seriously. Not just to honor the living members of Black Sabbath but also Randy Rhoads”: Tom Morello is honoring one of Ozzy Osbourne’s greatest collaborators at the Sabbath legend’s final show

Osbourne’s last show will take place later this year, and Morello – the event’s musical director – will take the opportunity to pay tribute to one of the finest guitar players of all time

Guitar World

“Jimmy Page said, ‘If you want to go work straight away, do the Ozzy gig. If not, we’d love to have you’”: Phil Soussan is one of the ultimate bass journeymen – he looks back at his storied career, and why he picked Ozzy Osbourne over Jimmy Page

The Last in Line member recalls his weird experience of recording bass on The Ultimate Sin, what it was like being in the room for Zakk Wylde’s Ozzy audition, being frustrated with Vince Neil’s band, and his amazing chemistry with Steve Lukather

Guitar World

“When I joined, Ozzy told me I'd often hear people scream out Randy's name during a show”: Zakk Wylde discusses Ozzy Osbourne's hard-and-fast guitar rules, and the friendly shadows of Randy Rhoads and Jake E. Lee, in his first Guitar World interview

Not long into his dream gig, Wylde sat down with GW for a chat about his favorite guitarists of the era, and what Ozzy discouraged him from doing on the guitar

Guitar World

“The message said, ‘This is Sharon Osbourne. Me and Ozzy have been checking you out, and we really love your guitar playing. We want you to audition’”: That time one of the fastest shredders in guitar history auditioned to join Ozzy Osbourne’s band

When the Osbourne camp began searching for Jake E. Lee’s replacement, a neo-classical speed shredder featured high up on their list

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"He was aiming at my dog!" Jake E. Lee describes the shooting that left him with multiple bullet wounds

Former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee was wounded in the unprovoked attack in October

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“I don’t think it’s wrong for certain people to like my style of playing better. It’s about who speaks to you”: Jake E. Lee on comparisons with Randy Rhoads – and what his fellow Ozzy shredder was better at

The virtuoso has weighed in on the decades-long debate that has pitted him against his Prince of Darkness predecessor

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