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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 2 - The Untold Story

Ten albums that prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that 1980 was the greatest year ever for hard rock and heavy metal

Ozzy reborn! AC/DC back! Iron Maiden on the prowl! 1980 rocked

Metal Hammer

Kelly Osbourne Spotted With 'New Man' Just Two Weeks After Sid Wilson Split

Kelly Osbourne's Easter photos with tattoo artist Miles Langford at The Dorchester have triggered 'new man' rumours just weeks after reports of her split from Sid Wilson. Fans are now dissecting her grief, her engagement timeline and how fast she is seen to be moving on.

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“Look at AC/DC. Whatever was popular, it didn’t matter. It’s like McDonald’s. ‘We make the Big Mac and we make fries and we don’t care about doing sushi’”: Zakk Wylde on musical identity, jailhouse rocking with Ozzy and the return of Black Label Society

The maestro of the pinched harmonic and pentatonic blitzkrieg sits in to talk Engines Of Demolition, Randy Rhoads' greatness, and the origin of his style

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Are Kelly Osbourne and Kiinicki Dating? Matching Tattoos and Crochet Beanies Fuel Romance Rumours

Kelly Osbourne has been linked to close friend and hairstylist Kiinicki following reports of her split from fiancé Sid Wilson, just months after the death of her father Ozzy.

International Business Times UK

The 'Broken Home' Fear: Why Kelly Osbourne Fought to Save Her Relationship Until the Very Last Minute

Kelly Osbourne battled fiercely to repair her engagement to Sid Wilson, haunted by fears of condemning their toddler son to a broken home amid grief and public backlash.

International Business Times UK

Kelly Osbourne, Sid Wilson Split: 'Struggling' Star Reportedly Calls Off Engagement 7 Months After Backstage Proposal

Kelly Osbourne has reportedly called off her engagement to Slipknot musician Sid Wilson seven months after his backstage proposal, amid claims she has been struggling with grief and relationship 'challenges'.

International Business Times UK

"Kind of rebels, both of them." Oscar-winning actor Cillian Murphy draws parallels between his Peaky Blinders anti-hero Tommy Shelby and Birmingham's true Prince Of Darkness

Why Tommy Shelby and Ozzy Osbourne share common ground

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"You can hide behind it, but all my favourites play guitar and I wanna be the whole package." James Bruner was drawn into rock by the greats: Now he's ready to become one

James Bruner grew up listening to Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, then dropped out of university to throw everything into his craft

Louder

“There was a lot of pain. My love for music was beginning to die”: He’d learned to let his brother be lead guitarist, and that many musicians lose hope. Then he changed his life, wrote a 15-minute prog epic and got signed

The American’s memories of seeing Yes, Black Sabbath and Grand Funk Railroad helped save him from despair – as did seeing his sibling play like Eddie Van Halen before Eddie did himself

Louder

“We should all be proud that British musicians are responsible for this force in music called heavy metal. Black Sabbath and Judas Priest invented true heavy metal music”: How Priest singer Rob Halford remembers the band’s breakthrough moment

And how they triumphed amid the ‘mudbath’ of the first Monsters Of Rock festival

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"There’s going to be everything from his hairbrushes to his smelly socks to his dirty paint chair." Unique Ozzy Osbourne museum exhibition to go on world tour

Sharon Osbourne says the deeply personal Ozzy exhibition currently showing at Birmingham Museum will travel the globe

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On the trail of Peaky Blinders, Black Sabbath and the perfect pint – an alternative guide to Birmingham

As the Peaky Blinders film is released this week, we follow in the footsteps of the Shelbys, make a heavy metal pilgrimage and find the city’s best places to eat, drink and dance

The Guardian - UK

"Ozzy has been a mighty force in modern music." The BRIT Awards are to honour the late Black Sabbath's contribution to music with Lifetime Achievement accolade and all-star tribute handpicked by his wife Sharon

The ceremony will take place in Manchester on February 28

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"Would Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin have been as cool if the internet was around to expose everything?" Black Stone Cherry's Chris Robertson on social media, the creative inspiration of dogs and battling Darth Vader

Black Stone Cherry's new EP Celebrate is out next month – and includes a very unlikely cover version

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A lounge cover of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath was “the creepiest thing” Ozzy Osbourne ever heard: “Which coming from him is the biggest compliment”

Pop-rockers The Cardigans put a chilled-out spin on the Black Sabbath song in 1994, and singer Nina Persson says the Prince Of Darkness was freaked out by it

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"It's intense back there. Everybody is nervous. And everybody's really emotional because we know it's the last time." Halestorm's Lzzy Hale on Back To The Beginning: The build-up, the show and the aftershow... and the loss of Ozzy Osbourne

When Halestorm's Lzzy Hale was asked to appear at Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell show in Birmingham, ‘thrilled’ doesn’t even come close to how she felt

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Yungblud joined by emotional Sharon Osbourne after winning Grammy for Best Rock Performance

Yungblud was accompanied on stage by a tearful Sharon Osbourne as he gave an impassioned speech paying tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne after winning the Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance for his cover of Changes at Black Sabbath's farewell gig.

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“It makes you wanna hurt someone real bad. They always have the most violent pits. Their riffs just bring out the aggression in people”: The three iconic metal albums that changed Ice-T’s life

Riffs, beats and smackdowns - this is the soundtrack to Ice-T’s life

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"The first song I ever wrote with Ozzy was on that guitar - and then also, the last tribute to him." Ozzy Osbourne's longest-serving guitarist Zakk Wylde opens up on the emotional new song he's written in memory of the Prince Of Darkness

The Black Label Society frontman and longtime Ozzy guitarist penned the tribute in the weeks following Ozzy's death

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"Like a fantastic beast sprung from Dante's Inferno": Meet the 67-million-year-old Triceratops skull named after Ozzy Osbourne

The late Black Sabbath frontman is now the subject of a dinosaur-themed tribute

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“Birmingham has always been embarrassed about its heavy metal heritage - and that’s unacceptable.” The story behind the petition to get Birmingham Airport named after Ozzy Osbourne - and why its founder is refusing to give up

Other musical cities celebrate their musical heritage - so why not the birthplace of heavy metal?

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"The Minotaur has the face of his father. He has to decide whether or not to kill it." The true story behind Minotaur, the mythical Tom Jones/Black Sabbath concept album that shook the world of rock

"Tom Jones is the greatest singer Sabbath have ever had"

Guitar World

“You still have to pay for the actual gig. No bands got paid, and most of the crew donated their time”: Jack Osbourne sets the record straight on how much Back to the Beginning actually donated to charity

Initial reports suggested that Ozzy Osbourne's final show raised over $190 million for three charities

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve got a fearlessness to being laid bare’: how Yungblud became Britain’s biggest rock star

In 2025 the Doncaster-born singer-songwriter has earned two UK No 1s, three Grammy nominations and the respect of rock’s greats – and he says it’s all down to putting fans first

Guitar World

“After it was called the ‘solo of the century,’ I remember saying to Steve Lukather, ‘Come on, this is ridiculous’”: Nuno Bettencourt on turning down Ozzy, Sabbath’s final show and how Extreme finally got their dues

Having torn up the rulebook and raised the bar once again for lead guitar, Nuno Bettencourt promises no let up – he’s out for blood again

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