Last Oct. 19, Ozzy Osbourne was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at Rocket Arena in Cleveland. That made him one of 27 artists to be honored more than once (he entered with Black Sabbath during 2006) and was also the beginning of a triumphant final chapter that led to the Back to the Beginning farewell concert on July 5,

Ozzy Osbourne had a long friendship with Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister, and the two musicians now have something eerily in common in death. Both hard rock legends died exactly 17 days after powering through their final concerts amid illness.

Alice Cooper praises Ozzy Osbourne as rock-and-roll ‘lifer’ - Osbourne, who died this week, fronted Black Sabbath on classic tracks such as Paranoid, Iron Man and War Pigs.