He spoke for a generation of alienated Seventies misfits, and no one would have expected him to survive the Eighties. Yet somehow Ozzy Osbourne got more famous and more deeply beloved every year

As millions of Ozzy Osbourne fans found out on the MTV reality show "The Osbournes," the Prince of Darkness wasn't anything like wild his rock-star stage persona – at home, he was sweet, gentle and mischeivous,

The man who called himself the Prince of Darkness has stepped into a kingdom he can no longer define. I admired Ozzy long before I feared God. I wasn’t raised in church. I wasn’t hardened either. Just … unanchored. I floated through my teens and twenties chasing noise, like so many do. Music filled the void. Metal was a friend that never judged.

“He lurched back and forth across the stage like an obsessed soldier during drills. He tossed his shaggy-haired head to the beat of the relentless drums. He quickly shed his shirt after only the first song, exposing his thickset torso and turquoise tattoos with a feverish sweep. And he screamed to the whistling audience, “Let’s get crazy!”

Over the course of a six-minute skit, Osbourne forgets the lyrics to Crazy Train, calls Barry Manilow “the antichrist” and unintentionally strangles a guy

Ozzy Osbourne's legacy is huge. From rock god to reality TV star, the Prince of Darkness remained an icon for decades. Here's how.

Ozzy Osbourne was an unruly chaos agent and a beloved family man alike.

Wolfgang and his Mammoth bandmates heard of Ozzy’s passing during soundcheck – and knew that “just mentioning it wasn’t enough”