An official cause of death has been confirmed for Ozzy Osbourne. The legendary Black Sabbath frontman died of a heart attack and also suffered from coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease, according to a death certificate filed at a registry in London and obtained by The New York Times.
Osbourne died on July 22 at the age of 76. His family confirmed the news in a statement at the time but did not provide a cause of death; he had endured numerous health problems in recent years.
“It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning,” the family’s statement reads. “He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.”
Osbourne, who also starred on MTV’s The Osbournes, co-founded the ever-influential and controversial Black Sabbath in 1968 with guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward.
The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006 — after being eligible for more than a decade, to the chagrin of the band and its legion of fans — and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grammys in 2019. Osbourne was inducted into the Rock Hall last year. A five-time Grammy winner and 12-time nominee, he had been eligible as a solo act for 18 years.
Thousands of fans lined the streets last week for Osbourne’s funeral procession, and memorials took place throughout the city of Birmingham, where Osbourne was born and where Black Sabbath was formed.
As we reported exclusively, the BBC is in talks over the future of a long-gestating documentary series about the Osbourne family.
The BBC greenlit Home to Roost in 2022, a 10-part series following Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne as they returned to the UK from Los Angeles with the help of their children, Kelly and Jack. The show was conceived as a spiritual (but not official) successor to The Osbournes, the anarchic fly-on-the-wall series that aired on MTV between 2002 and 2005.
Sources told Deadline that there is hope Home to Roost can still make it to air in some form, unlikely as a 10-part series, but could instead be a single film about the Osbournes and their lives.
Erik Pedersen and Jake Kanter contributed to this report.
