Osbourne died this past Tuesday, at the age of seventy-six; his family didn’t announce a cause, but he had previously disclosed that he had Parkinson’s disease. By the time of his death, Osbourne had been doubly transformed by Iommi’s good idea about “evil.

Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi said he thinks bandmate Ozzy Osbourne was "determined" to play the group's farewell show and "really just held out" to do so weeks before his death.