{"id":23100,"date":"2025-07-23T02:41:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23100"},"modified":"2025-07-22T13:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:46:29","slug":"he-closed-his-eyes-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/he-closed-his-eyes-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"He Closed His Eyes Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ozzy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23101\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ozzy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ozzy.jpg 700w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ozzy-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>Ozzy Osbourne, the seminal lead singer of Black Sabbath, died Tuesday at 76 after a long battle with Parkinson\u2019s disease.\u00a0 He, and the band, came to prominence in the 1970s, defining the UK heavy metal sound.\u00a0 In 1979, he left the group, leading to a successful solo career throughout the 80s and early 90s.\u00a0 He earned fame with a whole new generation in the 2000s when he and his family starred in <em>The Osbournes<\/em>, a reality show that became one of MTV&#8217;s biggest hits.<\/p>\n<p>Locally, Osbourne caused a stir in 2003 when he appeared at Wrigley Field with his wife Sharon to perform the 7th Inning Stretch.\u00a0 His performance of <em>Take Me Out to the Ballgame<\/em> was one for the ages, and not in the good way.\u00a0 His final performance came just two weeks ago in his hometown of Birmingham, England, where Osbourne wrapped up a ten-hour day with a five-song solo set followed by a four-song set with the original members of Black Sabbath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ozzy Osbourne, the seminal lead singer of Black Sabbath, died Tuesday at 76 after a long battle with Parkinson\u2019s disease.\u00a0 He, and the band, came to prominence in the 1970s, defining the UK heavy metal sound.\u00a0 In 1979, he left the group, leading to a successful solo career throughout the 80s and early 90s.\u00a0 He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[949,1764,1171,12094,12095,2926,595],"class_list":["post-23100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-black-sabbath","tag-mtv","tag-ozzy-osbourne","tag-parkinsons-disease","tag-sharon-osbourne","tag-the-osbournes","tag-wrigley-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23102,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23100\/revisions\/23102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}