Ozzy Osbourne Tribute At The VMAs
The late singer/entertainment icon received an all-star tribute Sunday (9/7) during the MTV Video Music Awards at the UBS Arena in Elmont, NY.
Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt and Yungblud honored the recently departed Prince Of Darkness.
The musicians joined forces for a “once-in-a-lifetime” medley of Ozzy’s greatest hits.
Ozzy Osbourne
The tribute opened with Yungblud singing “Crazy Train” and “Changes” with Bettencourt on guitar.
Then, the Aerosmith members performed “Mama, I’m Coming Home” with Yungblud adding vocals.
Ozzy Tribute
With more than 120 million albums sold, Osbourne was a five-time Grammy winner, two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee – with Black Sabbath in 2006 and as a solo artist in 2024 – and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Osbourne died on July 22nd at age 76 just weeks after taking the stage for the final time at the all-star “Back To The Beginning” concert in his native Birmingham, U.K.
In other VMA news…
The Best Rock Award went to Coldplay – “ALL MY LOVE”
The other nominees were:
Evanescence – “Afterlife (From the Netflix Series ‘Devil May Cry‘)”
Green Day – “One Eyed Bastard”
Lenny Kravitz– “Honey”
Linkin Park – “The Emptiness Machine”
twenty one pilots– “The Contract”
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