“ nobody plays like joe!”

IF ONLY HALF the rumors about him are true, Ozzy Osbourne should be dead. Yet, after 21 years of twisted public behavior, the man who brought you songs like “Paranoid,” “Bark at the Moon” and “Childre

MUSIC FANS KNEW Ozzy Osbourne as the Prince of Darkness or maybe even the Messiah of Metal, but among the hard-rock guitar community, he’ll always be remembered as the Godfather of Heavy Guitar. Thank

BELOW, BRAD GILLIS remembers the day Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne asked him to fill Randy Rhoads’ spot in Ozzy’s band. What are your memories of first meeting Ozzy? Two weeks after the tragic death of Ran

Things might have gotten messy when Jake E Lee was fired from Ozzy’s band in 1987, but looking back he admits that Ozzy “changed everything for me”

BELOW, ZAKK WYLDE — who shared innumerable on- and off-stage experiences with Ozzy (and almost as many Guitar World covers) — looks back on his Wylde ride with the Prince of Darkness. More than any ot

FEW VOCALISTS IN history are as synonymous with guitar heroics as Ozzy Osbourne. Starting with Tony Iommi and somehow also connecting with Randy Rhoads, Brad Gillis, Jake E. Lee, Zakk Wylde and so man