Yungblud, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, and Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt led an Ozzy Osbourne tribute performance on Sunday (Sept. 7) at the 2025 MTV VMAs, following the Black Sabbath rocker’s death in July.
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The tribute was introduced by Osbourne’s son Jack, and his family. Yungblud hit the stage wearing a golden cross chain gifted to him by Ozzy, and he proceeded to pay homage to the rock legend with a frenzied performance of Osbourne’s 1980 solo debut single, “Crazy Train.”
Yungblud threw on a fur jacket for Black Sabbath’s heartbreaking “Changes,” before Steven Tyler and Joe Perry joined him for “Mama, I’m Coming Home,” which became Osbourne’s lone top 40 solo single on the Billboard Hot 100 (which peaked No. 28). “Ozzy forever, man,” Yungblud shouted to close out the moving tribute.
The Aerosmith rockers and Yungblud were all part of what was Ozzy Osbourne’s final concert in Birmingham back in July, which took place about just weeks prior to the iconic rocker’s passing.
“Good old rock n’ roll in the name of the king, man,” Yungblud told Billboard on the VMAs red carpet ahead of the show. He listed “Believer” among his favorite Ozzy songs, and Tribute, which was a 1987 live album recorded with Randy Rhoads, as his favorite album from the late metal icon.
Ozzy Osbourne passed away on July 22 at the age of 76. A death certificate cited cardiac arrest and coronary artery disease among the causes of death. In his later years, the rocker had been open about undergoing treatment for Parkinson’s and spinal damage.
Watch the tribute to Ozzy Osbourne below:
