Tony Iommi has spoken publicly for the first time since Ozzy Osbourne’s passing and has reflected on Back to the Beginning farewell show, which took place weeks before his bandmate passed away.

"I didn’t realize then that I would never see Ozzy again after that night," Butler writes of the July 5 "Back to the Beginning" show in England.

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

A wide range of rock stars paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne on Tuesday after learning the former Black Sabbath frontman died at 76, just over two weeks after playing a farewell show in his native England.

Terence 'Geezer' Butler shares "57 incredible years of friendship," from that first barefoot knock on his door to the bittersweet farewell at Villa Park.

After Ozzy Osbourne's recent death, Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi said something most fans can agree with.

"It's just such heartbreaking news that I can't really find the words, there won't ever be another like him," Iommi said.

The co-founders of Black Sabbath paid tribute to their doomsayer-in-chief following the news of Ozzy Osbourne’s death at age 76 on Tuesday.

In Birmingham, England, the singer’s hometown, fans paid tribute by leaving flowers, beer and tequila. The rapper Drake was there to pay his respects, too.