Black Sabbath are my all-time favorite band, and I’m Ozzy’s biggest fan,” Zakk Wylde related to Guitar World in 1989. Fairly ...

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When Zakk Wylde joined Ozzy Osbourne’s band, he had a tall order to fill: living up to the legacy of Osbourne’s previous guitarists Randy Rhoads and Jake E. Lee, as well as Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi.

Ozzy Osbourne was very close to his longtime guitarist, Zakk Wylde. The legendary Black Sabbath singer died in July, just 17 days after his final performance with Wylde at the Back to the Beginning ...

Ozzy Osbourne Had Help From Zakk Wylde During His Iconic Final Show originally appeared on Parade. Ozzy Osbourne delivered his legendary final show on July 5—just weeks before his tragic death. The ...

Ozzy Osbourne had Zakk Wylde at his side all the way to the last show. Wylde, the guitarist who grew up in Jackson, first joined forces with the Prince of Darkness in 1987, and he spent much of the ...

If music was the magical elixir that got Zakk Wylde off the gridiron and on a stage when he was a teenage linebacker, then guitar was the vehicle that got him to the dream gig of stepping in as Ozzy ...

During his chat with the publication (published online on Oct. 9), Wylde – who’d sporadically been in Ozzy’s band since 1987 and who performed at Black Sabbath’s Back to the Beginning final show – ...

After crossing nearly every major milestone in his career, Ozzy Osbourne had only one request before his death. He wanted to play one last concert with Black Sabbath. After making that dream known, ...

As Zakk Wylde prepared for a photoshoot shortly after becoming Ozzy Osbourne’s third full-time guitarist, he had a realization. His cream-colored Gibson Les Paul, known lovingly as the Grail, cut too ...