| 1970 | Co-founded Black Sabbath in Birmingham and recorded the band's self-titled debut, igniting the heavy metal genre with a sound that would define generations. |
| 1980 | Launched his solo career with 'Blizzard of Ozz', introducing 'Crazy Train' and proving that his ear for dramatic, arena-filling riffs was as strong as ever outside of Black Sabbath. |
| 1981 | Followed immediately with 'Diary of a Madman', cementing back-to-back platinum releases and establishing a solo commercial identity independent of his former band. |
| 1986 | Scored a mainstream rock hit with 'Shot in the Dark' from 'The Ultimate Sin', the album that broke him further into Top 40 radio and expanded his arena fanbase worldwide. |
| 2002 | Starred alongside Sharon, Kelly, and Jack in MTV's 'The Osbournes', the reality series that introduced him to a new generation and became one of the network's highest-rated shows ever. |
| 2020 | Ended a decade-long studio silence with 'Ordinary Man', an album whose vulnerability, written amid a Parkinson's diagnosis, brought him some of the most personal critical praise of his career. |
| 2022 | Released 'Patient Number 9', his 13th solo studio album, featuring Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi on 'Degradation Rules', Iommi's first appearance on an Ozzy solo record. |
| 2022 | 'Patient Number 9' won two Grammy Awards, Best Rock Album and Best Metal Performance, bringing his career Grammy total to five, with three as a solo artist. |
| 2024 | Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist, his second induction, following Black Sabbath's 2006 entry, with Jack Black delivering the induction speech. |
| 2025 | Performed his final show at Villa Park in Birmingham alongside the original Black Sabbath lineup for 'Back to the Beginning', a benefit concert raising funds for Cure Parkinson's and Birmingham Children's Hospital. |
The former Black Sabbath front man has been ridiculed over his career, mostly due to rumors denouncing him as a psychopath and satanist. Despite his outlandish reputation, however, one cannot deny that Osbourne has had an immeasurable effect on heavy metal. While he doesn’t possess a great voice – it’s thin and doesn’t have much range – he makes up for it with his good ear and dramatic flair. As a showman, his instincts are nearly as impeccable; his live shows have been overwrought spectacles of gore and glitz that have endeared him to adolescents around the world. Indeed, Osbourne has managed to establish himself as an international superstar, capable of selling millions of records with each album and packing arenas across the globe, capturing new fans with each record. Ozzy continues to rock the world in new and different ways. Legend – that’s what Ozzy Osbourne is.