Lady Gaga paid a touching tribute to the late rock legend Ozzy Osbourne following his death at age 76.
The pop icon, 39, closed out her San Francisco show on Tuesday – the day Osbourne passed – with his song, Crazy Train.
She wore a black ‘Ozzy Osbourne’ shirt on stage to take her final bow beside her backup dancers.
Fans were quick to praise the classy move on social media with some fans saying they had been reduced to tears, with one follower writing: ‘Gaga tribute to #Ozzy makes my tear up…’
The multi-hyphenate proudly displayed her shirt, worn beneath a leather jacket, before joining her fellow dancers on stage for a moment of enthusiastic headbanging.
The infectious song played on as the group clasped hands and took a bow together.
Fans across the world are currently mourning the loss of family patriarch Ozzy Osbourne following the Black Sabbath legend’s death at the age of 76 on June 22.
Lady Gaga paid tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne by closing out her San Francisco show on Tuesday to his song Crazy Train whilst wearing a shirt bearing his name
The pop star pictured with the Black Sabbath frontman in 2014
According to the iTunes Music store app, Ozzy’s music currently dominates the top 10 of their charting songs. Aside from Yungblud’s cover of the Black Sabbath song Changes, their entire top 10 consists of Black Sabbath or Ozzy music.
The artist and his band had already been making moves on the charts prior to Ozzy’s death following his final performance with Black Sabbath earlier this month, with Forbes previously reporting that the song Mama, I’m Coming Home was a runner-up spot on the iTunes Top Songs chart and his album The Essential Ozzy Osbourne landing in 10th place on the iTunes Top Albums chart. Mama, I’m Coming Home is currently number one on the iTunes’ charts.
Ozzy died Tuesday morning, his family announced in a statement on Tuesday.
The metal legend died just weeks after he took to the stage for his final show with Black Sabbath.
‘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,’ the family’s statement read.
‘He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time. Sharon, Jack, Kelly, Aimee and Louis.’
His Black Sabbath band mates – Terence “Geezer” Butler, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward – led tributes to Osbourne alongside fans from his home city of Birmingham, where he had taken to the stage as part of a reunion concert just weeks earlier.
Black Sabbath co-founder Iommi said it was “brilliant” to reunite with the band before Osbourne died, saying the singer “really wanted” to perform together again and “felt at home”.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘It is really a shock. It’s really hit me today to be honest, but yeah, a terrible shock.’
On their reunion concert two weeks ago, Iommi said: ‘It was brilliant to be with all the guys again… and it was brilliant for Ozzy because he really wanted to do that, you know, he felt at home there and it was really good for him.
Fans across the world are currently mourning the loss of family patriarch Ozzy Osbourne following the Black Sabbath legend’s death at the age of 76 on June 22; pictured 2011
‘It was good for all of us, and lovely to be able to get together for a final thing. I mean, we didn’t realise it was going to be this final.’
Earlier this month, Osbourne took to the stage as part of the Black Sabbath reunion, telling thousands of heavy metal enthusiasts at Villa Park – a stone’s throw from where the band was formed in 1968 – that it was “so good to be on this stage” as he performed his last set from a large black throne.
The group were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2006 and Osbourne was added for a second time last year.
He rose to further fame alongside his wife Sharon – whom he married in 1982 and with whom he has three children, Aimee, Jack and Kelly – through their MTV reality TV series The Osbournes.
The metal legend died just weeks after he took to the stage for his final show with Black Sabbath, with his family confirming the sad news in a statement on Tuesday evening; pictured 2016
In 2020, Osbourne revealed he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, telling Good Morning America that it was discovered he had the neurodegenerative disorder after a fall.
He said: ‘I did my last show New Year’s Eve at The Forum. Then I had a bad fall. I had to have surgery on my neck, which screwed all my nerves and I found out that I have a mild form.’
He released his 12th studio album Ordinary Man in 2020, followed by Patient Number 9 in 2022, which went to number three and two in the UK charts, respectively.
