Musicians around the globe are commemorating Ozzy Osbourne following the Black Sabbath legend’s demise yesterday on the age of 76. After a sequence of written tributes all through yesterday afternoon and night—from the likes of Elton John, Tom Morello, Metallica, and Jack White—artists enjoying live shows final evening celebrated Osbourne’s life and work with covers, speeches, and singalongs. Amongst them had been Coldplay and Dave Matthews Band, who each coated Black Sabbath’s “Adjustments,” and former Black Midi frontperson Geordie Greep, who led his band in an instrumental covers medley in Black Sabbath’s Birmingham hometown. Watch footage of all three under.
After jamming by “Symptom of the Universe, “Battle Pigs,” “N.I.B.,” “Paranoid,” “Candy Leaf,” and “Loopy Practice” at Birmingham’s XOYO venue, Greep stated Black Sabbath “made this music that actually modified every part, they usually got here from this city.” He added, “You get a guitar, you go to a rehearsal room whenever you’re 12 or one thing, and also you play these songs, and you are feeling such as you’re gonna have superpowers. It’s like magic. And it was these fucking guys simply coming from this city—which isn’t precisely Beverly Hills. It’s superb…. Relaxation in peace.”
Elsewhere, Woman Gaga closed out a Mayhem Ball present in San Francisco by ripping open her jacket to reveal an Ozzy Osbourne T-shirt, earlier than enjoying his solo tune “Loopy Practice” by the PA. Cyndi Lauper led her Raleigh, North Carolina, crowd in a singalong to the identical monitor by enjoying it from her telephone into the mic.
