The time Ozzy Osbourne went to Space Camp in Alabama

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Second only to his role as one of the core progenitors of heavy metal, Ozzy Osbourne was a TV star.

Osbourne, who died Tuesday at the age of 76 following years of health issues, was best known for his time in Black Sabbath, as well as his own solo music, clearing the path for many hard rock and metal acts to follow. But in the early 2000s, the English singer’s career took a second wind as the patriarch of the MTV reality series, “The Osbournes,” which chronicled his life with his longtime wife, Sharon, and two children, Kelly and Jack.

By 2016, Osbourne and his son Jack had embarked on a second reality series, “Ozzy & Jack’s World Detour,” where father and son toured the country, taking part in the culture of each town they visited. In its third season, Osbourne, his son and granddaughter travelled to Alabama, where they visited the Vulcan Statue and Sloss Furnace in Birmingham, Space Camp in Huntsville, as well as were treated to a rendition of his songs “Perry Mason,” “N.I.B.” and “Iron Man” by the Alabama State University Mighty Marching Hornets marching band.

“It was like a divine experience for me,” Osbourne said in his famously mumbling English accent.

Osbourne died two weeks after Black Sabbath’s final concert at Villa Park in their hometown of Birmingham, England, performing in front of over 45,000 people.

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