Coldplay Dedicates Nashville Present to Ozzy Osbourne After His Dying

Coldplay devoted a canopy of Black Sabbath’s soft-rock 1972 ballad “Modifications” to the late Ozzy Osbourne at their live performance at Nissan Stadium in Nashville on Tuesday, July 22.

Osbourne’s household confirmed his dying on Tuesday morning. He was 76.

Earlier than the present, a fan posted a clip on X from outdoors Nissan Stadium, the place the band might be heard performing “Modifications” throughout soundcheck.

“We might prefer to dedicate this entire present to the unimaginable genius, expertise, and character known as present to the world who was Ozzy Osbourne. We ship our like to his household,” Coldplay frontman Chris Martin mentioned in a fan-captured video from the live performance shared on TikTok.

After enjoying the meditative heartbreak ballad, Martin, 48, mentioned, “Ozzy, we love you, wherever you are going.”

In his 2011 autobiography I Am Ozzy, co-written by Chris Ayres, the Black Sabbath frontman revealed that the lyrics have been impressed by the tip of guitarist Invoice Ward’s first marriage. Osbourne co-wrote the lyrics with Black Sabbath bassist and lyricist Geezer Butler.

In 2003, Osbourne re-recorded the track as a duet together with his daughter Kelly Osbourne. Earlier this month, Yungblud carried out a canopy of the track dwell at Black Sabbath’s Again to the Starting profit live performance held at Villa Park within the band’s dwelling metropolis of Birmingham, U.Ok. Proceeds from the live performance on July 5 went to Remedy Parkinson’s, Birmingham Youngsters’s Hospital, and Acorns Youngsters’s Hospice.

Yungblud shared a tribute to Osbourne within the wake of his dying.

“I didn’t assume you would depart so quickly the final time we met you have been so lively and your snicker crammed up the room. However as it’s written with legends, they appear to know the issues that we don’t,” Yunglud, 27, started his tribute on Instagram.

“I’ll always remember you – you can be in each single notice I sing and with me each single time I stroll on stage,” Yungblud wrote. “Your cross round my neck is probably the most treasured factor I personal. You requested me as soon as if there was something you can do for me and as I mentioned then and as I’ll say now for all of us the music was sufficient. You took us in your journey – an journey that began all of it.”

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“I’m really heartbroken. You have been the best of all time,” concluded the rock star.

Osbourne’s household advised PEOPLE in a press release on July 22, “It’s with extra unhappiness than mere phrases can convey that we have now to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has handed away this morning. He was together with his household and surrounded by love. We ask everybody to respect our household privateness at the moment.”

Osbourne is survived by his spouse Sharon and 6 kids.