🤘(Our first without you onstage… but always in our hearts and blasting through our speakers 🫶)

Ozzy Osbourne — the bat-biting, reality-TV-rewriting, Brummie-born godfather of heavy metal — turns another legendary year older today, born 3 December 1948, and The Riff Report is raising a pint (and maybe a cross necklace, though preferably not between our teeth) in his honour. 🔥🍻

Because let’s be honest, butt…There is no rock ’n’ roll without Ozzy Osbourne.No Black Sabbath doom riffs drifting through foggy Welsh valleys.No “SHAAAROOOON!” echoing through memes for eternity.No blueprint for chaos that every festival frontman still tries to copy.The man literally invented half the genre — and survived things that would kill a tank. 🦇⚡

This birthday hits different, tidy.With touring off the table and the family facing tough times, fans everywhere are feeling it. But the legacy? Untouchable. Those riffs, those screams, those stories — they’ll outlive us all, mun. 🖤

So today, whether you're blasting Crazy Train in your car, cranking War Pigs while making a cuppa, or sticking Mumma, I’m Coming Home on repeat (👀 Christmas Number One campaign gang, ASSEMBLE!), take a moment to appreciate the man who changed music forever.

Diolch Ozzy.For the madness.For the melodies.For the memories.For being the most indestructible metal icon Britain has ever produced. 🤘🏴🔥

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