Ozzy Osbourne accepted Black Sabbath's 2006 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame -- even though seven years earlier he'd tried to have the band removed from consideration. This year he's being inducted as a solo act, and his feeling decidedly more positive about the prospect.
Ozzy Osbourne will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist on Oct. 19 in Cleveland. removed from the nominating ballot in 1999, declaring the organization “meaningless.” And last year his wife and manager Sharon Osbourne slammed the Rock Hall for ignoring Osbourne, even though he’d been eligible since 2006.
“It feels big. I’m more than honored,” Osbourne, 75, who’s been battling Parkinson’s disease, says via email. The first-time nominee was particularly buoyed that he finished fourth in the fan voting with more than 400,000 votes. “Since the Rock Hall involves the fans in the voting now, it feels more special, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels that way.
He won his first Grammy Award in 1994 for “I Don’t Want to Change the World” and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as well as the Birmingham Walk of Fame in his home town in England. The crazy successful train has, in fact, continued in recent years with a pair of Top 5 albums -- “Ordinary Man,” Osbourne’s first in 10 years, in 2020 and “Patient Number 9″ iin 2022. The latter also netted a pair of Grammy Awards -- Best Rock Album and Best Metal Performance for “Degradation Rules,” a reuniion track with Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi.
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