Johnny Depp paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne with a particular live performance look three days after the heavy steel icon’s loss of life at age 76 on Tuesday, July 22.
Depp, 62, walked on stage throughout rock legend Alice Cooper’s present at The O2 Area in London on Friday, July 25, to carry out the traditional Black Sabbath monitor “Paranoid,” in keeping with YouTube footage of the occasion. (Osbourne was Black Sabbath’s frontman between 1968 and 1979, and most not too long ago reunited with the unique lineup for his closing live performance in Birmingham on July 5.)
As Depp carried out a guitar solo, Cooper stood in for Osbourne on vocals and even wore one of many legendary Black Sabbath singer’s T-shirts. Depp stayed on stage for a mashup of Cooper’s 1972 single “Faculty’s Out” and the 1979 Pink Floyd hit “One other Brick within the Wall Half 2.”
The London present was a reunion for Depp and Cooper, as they’ve beforehand collaborated as members of the exhausting rock tremendous group the Hollywood Vampires, together with Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry. (The Hollywood Vampires took their title from a social membership that Cooper shaped within the Seventies with fellow rock luminaries Ringo Starr, Keith Moon of The Who, Micky Dolenz of the Monkees and singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson.)
Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp in July 2025. Jim Dyson/Getty Photos
Tributes have poured in because the Osbourne household confirmed on Tuesday that the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame inductee died following a protracted battle with Parkinson’s illness.
“It’s with extra disappointment than mere phrases can convey that we have now to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has handed away this morning,” the Osbournes instructed Us Weekly in an announcement. “He was together with his household and surrounded by love. We ask everybody to respect our household privateness presently.”
Ozzy Osbourne commemorated the ultimate live performance of his life simply someday earlier than his loss of life. Osbourne shared a behind-the-scenes photograph from Black Sabbath’s Again to the Starting present by way of Instagram on Monday, July 21. The image confirmed the surface of Osbourne’s dressing room at Aston, Birmingham, England’s Villa Park, the place the live performance was held on […]
Osbourne’s authentic Black Sabbath bandmates — guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Invoice Ward — acknowledged that they’d “misplaced [a] brother” in respective social media statements.
“I simply can’t imagine it! My pricey pricey pal Ozzy has handed away solely weeks after our present at Villa Park,” Iommi, 77, wrote. “It’s simply such heartbreaking information that I can’t actually discover the phrases, there received’t ever be one other like him. Geezer, Invoice and myself have misplaced our brother.”
Butler, 76, added, “Goodbye pricey pal — thanks for all these years — we had some nice enjoyable. 4 youngsters from Aston — who’d have thought, eh? So glad we obtained to do it one final time, again in Aston. Love you.”
Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp in July 25, 2025. Jim Dyson/Getty Photos
Ward, 77, confused that, regardless of their “unstated embraces” and “missed cellphone calls,” Osbourne could be “without end in [his] coronary heart.”
“Deepest condolences to Sharon and all members of the family,” the drummer went on. “RIP Honest regrets to all of the followers. By no means goodbye. Thanks without end.”
Osbourne’s immense affect and popular culture influence have been felt within the sheer quantity of tributes he obtained from the leisure business.
“Whether or not we have been in our basements with our brothers, within the woods with our buddies, within the automotive, at a keg social gathering, on a ship, at soccer follow, at a sleepover … No one was extra badass to crank up on our audio system than the one and solely prince of darkness — Ozzy Osborne!” Adam Sandler memorialized by way of X. “Beloved him so much like all of us did! Sending like to the household and so joyful to have hung out with the legend himself. RIP.”
Singer-songwriter YungBlud wrote that Osbourne’s legacy could be evident in “each single notice I sing and with me each single time I stroll on stage.”
“You requested me as soon as if there was something you would do for me and as I stated then and as I’ll say now for all of us the music was sufficient,” the “Tongue Tied” musician, 27, continued. “You took us in your journey — an journey that began all of it. I’m actually heartbroken. You have been the best of all time.”
Ozzy is survived by his spouse, Sharon Osbourne, and 6 kids: Elliot, Jessica and Louis from his first marriage to Thelma Riley, in addition to Aimee, Kelly and Jack from his marriage to Sharon.
