If you polled the public about Ozzy Osbourne in the 1970s and ’80s, you were likely to hear he was a self-destructive rock-and-roll hedonist, a literal emissary of Satan, or a first-ballot contender for coolest and craziest human alive.

The clean-cut crooner and the Prince of Darkness became unlikely friends while living next to each other in Beverly Hills

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Ozzy Osbourne's "final moment" at his farewell concert has gone viral on social media. The Black Sabbath frontman, known as the "Prince of Darkness," died on Tuesday at the age of 76.

The heavy-metal nearly bought a La Jolla estate. “Mind you, my wife finds another house she wants to buy every other week,” he said. “How many do we have? Seven.”

The ‘80s star performed in Raleigh, North Carolina, on July 22, just hours after news of Osbourne’s death broke. During her set, she led the crowd in a sing-along of one of Black Sabbath’s biggest hits, “Crazy Train.”

Both aesthetically — and occasionally musically — the show cribbed from the heavy metal heyday of the 1980s. So it was only right that Gaga honored one of the genre’s founders, Ozzy Osbourne, who died earlier that day.

When people look back at Ozzy Osbourne’s wildest pop culture appearances, they usually bring up The Osbournes, his cameo in Little Nicky, or that infamous bat incident, but buried deep in South Park’s