{"id":565688,"date":"2026-07-24T09:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/565688\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T09:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:25:19","slug":"sophie-lloyd-posts-shred-tribute-to-ozzy-osbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/565688\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Lloyd posts shred tribute to Ozzy Osbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sophie Lloyd has marked the first anniversary of Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>\u2019s death with a full-shred YouTube tribute to the late Prince of Darkness.<\/p>\n

If you are familiar with the English virtuoso\u2019s treatment of the popular canon of rock and pop, then you know the drill. This is Lloyd, backed by Marshall<\/a> and Randall half-stacks, her Kiesel signature guitar<\/a> in hand, reworking a classic as a guitar instrumental.<\/p>\n

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She has done Oasis<\/a>, Pink Floyd, Bon Jovi, Iron Maiden and Metallica<\/a> \u2013 she\u2019s reimagined the Pok\u00e9mon Theme Song, too. Now you can add Black Sabbath<\/a>\u2019s Paranoid to the list.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s been a minute since Lloyd has posted one of these Shred videos. There has been a lot filling up her calendar, not least her touring schedule as Machine Gun Kelly\u2019s guitarist. Yesterday, one year after we lost Ozzy, was a fitting time to return.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn loving memory of the Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>,\u201d writes Lloyd. \u201cThank you for being such a huge inspiration to me from such a young age. Thank you for everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lloyd\u2019s version is far removed from the eponymous single from Sabbath\u2019s 1970 sophomore album, Paranoid. Her guitar assumes Ozzy\u2019s role as vocalist. Her style is more pyrotechnic than Iommi\u2019s. But as Lloyd explained to MusicRadar in 2022<\/a>, her process always preserves the melody.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like having reference points to go back to,\u201d said Lloyd. \u201cI\u2019ll venture out and then go back so the melody is still there. We did Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd, and I really stripped back my shredding and played a lot more melody stuff, and I\u2019ve been playing more with harmonies as well, so that\u2019s been quite fun. It\u2019s something new I\u2019m trying out a little bit because, you know, a lot of those things you don\u2019t want to oversaturate with shred, even though it\u2019s fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lloyd wasn\u2019t the only player to post a solo guitar tribute on social media. Alex Skolnick<\/a> of Testament performed a medley of Randy Rhoads<\/a>\u2019 classical piece Dee and Ozzy power ballad Goodbye To Romance for solo nylon-string guitar<\/a>, performing it on his Cordoba Iberia GK Studio through a Henriksen Bud 6.<\/p>\n

Lloyd is one of the most high-profile YouTube guitarists to have landed high-profile gigs after building a huge audience on the platform.<\/p>\n

Her advice to any young player looking to grow their online following: find your own niche and go for it. Posting your first video is the hardest part.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy first videos look like they were filmed on a potato and the audio quality is awful,\u201d she said. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to start somewhere, so I\u2019d say, just go for it as much as you can and have fun with it. Try and develop something unique to you. Look for some sort of gap in the market and try and fill that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lloyd released her debut album, Imposter Syndrome<\/a> in 2023. You can join 1.27 million others and follow her on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sophie Lloyd has marked the first anniversary of Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s death with a full-shred YouTube tribute to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-565688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}