Ozzy Osbourne was unwell for years ahead of his devastating death, but Black Sabbath bandmate Geezer Butler has admitted he was shocked by how ‘frail’ the icon had become. Ozzy died aged 76 on July 22, mere weeks after the War Pigs legends had performed their final show in their home town of Birmingham.

"I didn’t realize then that I would never see Ozzy again after that night," Butler writes of the July 5 "Back to the Beginning" show in England.

I am so privileged to have spent most of my life with him," Terence “Geezer” Butler said of his late bandmate and friend