Black Sabbath through a prolific solo career — how the heavy metal icon's music peppered the soundtrack of one writer's life.

Aside from his stage name, heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne was also known as the music world's "Prince of Darkness." Here's how he got the nickname.

The world never fell out of love with this Prince of Darkness. Ozzy blew up into a Seventies teenage antihero because he seemed to speak for the misfits, the rejects, the outcasts. He helped invent metal as we know it with Black Sabbath,

“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!”

Sixteen years after their last Wembley performance, Oasis returned to the iconic stadium with a powerful nod to a fellow British music legend: Ozzy Osbourne.

The rock world has just lost a legend. Heavy metal icon, Ozzy Osbourne, has died at 76, according to the Associated Press. The “Prince of Darkness” and frontman for Black Sabbath, died today, Tuesday, July 22, just a few weeks after his farewell concert.