Just two weeks after performing in a huge farewell concert with his band Black Sabbath, musical legend Ozzy Osbourne has died at the age of 76.
Tributes have been pouring in for Prince of Darkness, who played a leading role in the development of heavy metal in the 1970s.
He was fired from his band in 1979 but went on to enjoy a successful solo career, releasing 13 studio albums, before rejoining Sabbath in 1997 (following several other reunions).
He’s sold over 100 million albums and later reached a whole new fanbase when his family featured on reality television show The Osbournes - which also made stars of wife Sharon, son Jack and daughter Kelly.
On July 5 he performed his final show at the Back to the Beginning concert in his native Birmingham, which saw many of the world’s bigget rock stars turn out to celebrate the man and his music. He died 17 days later.
Here are 15 of the star’s most memorable quotes.
13. Ozzy on...heavy metal
"All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?" | Getty Images
14. Ozzy on...Ozzy
"I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day." | Getty Images
15. Ozzy Osbourne on...royalty
"I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl." | Getty Images