{"id":308622,"date":"2026-03-01T23:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T23:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/308622\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T23:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T23:48:09","slug":"see-robbie-williams-lead-all-star-ozzy-osbourne-tribute-at-brit-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/308622\/","title":{"rendered":"See Robbie Williams Lead All-Star Ozzy Osbourne Tribute at Brit Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zakk Wylde, Robert Trujillo and more perform &#8220;No More Tears&#8221; as Osbourne posthumously receives lifetime achievement award<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/robbie-williams\/\" id=\"auto-tag_robbie-williams\" data-tag=\"robbie-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robbie Williams<\/a> led an all-star band through a rendition of \u201cNo More Tears\u201d as part of the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/brit-awards\/\" id=\"auto-tag_brit-awards\" data-tag=\"brit-awards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brit Awards<\/a>\u2019 tribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ozzy-osbourne\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ozzy-osbourne\" data-tag=\"ozzy-osbourne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>, who also posthumously received the show\u2019s Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWilliams, \u201ca long-standing fan of the music and friend of the [Osbourne] family,\u201d was joined onstage by musicians who previously performed alongside Osbourne: guitarist Zakk Wylde, Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, Black Sabbath reunion drummer Tommy Clufetos, and Adam keyboardist Wakeman from Osbourne\u2019s band.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn addition to the award show-ending performance, Sharon and Kelly Osbourne were on hand to accept the Brit Awards\u2019 lifetime achievement award on behalf of the late Ozzy; the Osbourne family previously hosted the Brit Awards in 2008.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWe all know how fickle this industry can be, and my old man was blessed with a one-in-a-million career. He was at the top of his game for 56 years,\u201d Sharon Osbourne said during the acceptance speech.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cOzzy was authentic, he was gifted, totally unpredictable, a wild man. A true artist. He came from a small working class neighborhood in Birmingham and he rose to become one of the most recognizable and respected musicians of his life. He was filled with extraordinarily wonderful high times but very real low times, but he never stopped tirelessly pushing himself to do better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe Brit Awards\u2019 celebration of Ozzy followed similar tributes stateside for the Black Sabbath singer and two-time Rock Hall inductee, including at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/2025-vmas-ozzy-osbourne-tribute-steven-tyler-yungblud-1235422554\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the MTV Video Music Awards<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/grammys-2026-memoriam-brian-wilson-bob-weir-dangelo-1235505362\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Grammys<\/a>, where Post Malone performed \u201cWar Pigs\u201d alongside producer-guitarist Andrew Watt, the Red Hot Chili Peppers\u2019 Chad Smith, and Guns N\u2019 Roses\u2019 Slash and Duff McKagan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zakk Wylde, Robert Trujillo and more perform &#8220;No More Tears&#8221; as Osbourne posthumously receives lifetime achievement award Robbie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[79147,156,157,111,139,69,459,58022],"class_list":{"0":"post-308622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-brit-awards","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-ozzy-osbourne","15":"tag-robbie-williams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}