Rick Wakeman has shared a video paying an emotional tribute to his late buddy, Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne, who died on Tuesday.
Wakeman was longtime mates with Ozzy and Sabbath, and labored with the band on 1973’s Sabbath Bloody Sabbath album, that includes on piano and Minimoog on Sabbra Cadabra, and in addition performed Mellotron on the songs Perry Mason and I Simply Need You from Ozzy’s 1995 album Ozzmosis. Ozzy later featured on Wakeman’s 1999 album, Return To The Centre Of The Earth.
In his video, Wakeman says, “It is a message for Ozzy, who’s now on a really particular journey, having handed away and all of us miss him one thing horrible. However what a legacy he is left. An absolute character, an absolute character, each music-wise, the place he was truly a lot cleverer than lots of people gave him credit score for, and in addition his insanity, which I cherished. I miss him an terrible lot even now. And want Sharon all the very best. I feel it was Sharon who made Ozzy in later years, after she met him, and in a wierd approach he made Sharon. The pair of them have been inseparable, however now they’ve been separated, however there are the recollections that can at all times reside on. So clearly, wherever you might be on the astral airplane the place you are travelling, I want you all the perfect and hope you meet a whole lot of attention-grabbing folks on the way in which. Miss you, mate. Bye.”
Rick’s son Adam Wakeman, who performed keyboards with each Sabbath and Ozzy in recent times, additionally paid tribute to the late frontman, saying, “Thanks for every little thing you could have achieved for me, my household, my profession, my musicianship, my love for music, for all of the love and laughter on the various excursions across the World. There are males, nice males… after which above all of them, there’s Ozzy Osbourne.”
