Osbourne’s friend and concert organizer Tom Morello marveled over “the fact that [the rock icon] lived to play and feel that love” one more time.

Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath who became the throaty, growling voice — and drug-and-alcohol ravaged id — of heavy metal, died Tuesday, just weeks after his farewell show. He was 76.