Sharon Osbourne has marked what would have been her 46th wedding anniversary with Ozzy Osbourne, sharing a tribute to the late rock legend on Instagram on Friday (July 4).
Alongside a close-up photo of the couple holding hands, Sharon wrote: “Today would have been our 46th wedding anniversary. Instead, it is a celebration of a love that even death could not diminish. I miss your hand in mine, but I carry your love with me every step of the way. Forever my husband. Forever my heart.”
Ozzy died on July 22, 2025, at the age of 76, following a public battle with Parkinson’s disease. His passing came just 17 days after he headlined a massive farewell concert, “Back to the Beginning,” at Villa Park in his hometown of Birmingham alongside Black Sabbath. The couple married in Hawaii on July 4, 1982, and remained together — through well-documented highs and lows, including a brief separation in 2016 — for 43 years until his death. They renewed their vows in 2017, and together they raised three children: Aimee, Kelly and Jack.
Ozzy’s passing triggered a significant posthumous surge on the Billboard charts. “Crazy Train” — his signature 1980 solo track from Blizzard of Ozz — hit the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in its history, debuting at No. 46 with 9.2 million streams in the tracking week ending July 24, 2025.
“Mama, I’m Coming Home” re-entered the Hot 100 at No. 49, its first appearance on the chart in 33 years. His compilation The Essential Ozzy Osbourne surged to No. 7 on the Billboard 200 — a new peak from its original No. 81 — and hit No. 1 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums and Top Hard Rock Albums charts simultaneously. The top seven positions on the Hot Hard Rock Songs chart were held entirely by Osbourne and Black Sabbath tracks.
Across a career spanning more than five decades as both frontman of Black Sabbath and as a solo artist, Osbourne sold more than 100 million albums worldwide, claimed nine solo top 10 entries on the Billboard 200 — including at least one in every decade from the 1980s through the 2020s — and scored two top 10 Hot 100 hits: “Close My Eyes Forever” with Lita Ford (No. 8, 1989) and “Take What You Want” with Post Malone and Travis Scott (No. 8, 2019). Black Sabbath’s reunion album 13 gave the band their first-ever Billboard 200 No. 1 in 2013.
