The Black Sabbath frontman's last gig was at Villa Park. He meant an awful lot to the people of Birmingham and never forgot his roots

Which minute of the game should Aston Villa fans be ring-­fencing to commemorate the late Ozzy Osbourne next season? Big Villa fan, of course, Black Sabbath’s frontman. And huge at Villa Park, his passing this week marked immediately by a club statement mourning the “world-renowned rock star and Villan”.

Few people knew Ozzy Osbourne more intimately than his Black Sabbath bandmates, who, despite their conflicts over the years, spent decades with the Prince of Darkness. To Geezer Butler, however, Osbourne wasn’t the Prince of Darkness at all; he was the “Prince of Laughter,” as the bassist wrote in a tribute to his old friend for The Times.

I am so privileged to have spent most of my life with him," Terence “Geezer” Butler said of his late bandmate and friend

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Heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne is survived by his wife Sharon and six children from two marriages, including one adopted child.