Watch Oasis dedicate ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Star’ to Ozzy Osbourne at Wembley Stadium

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Watch Oasis dedicate ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Star’ to Ozzy Osbourne at Wembley Stadium

Oasis dedicated ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Star’ to Ozzy Osbourne at their first night at Wembley Stadium – watch the moment below.

Friday night (July 25) saw the Gallagher brothers play the first of seven Live ’25 dates at London’s Wembley Stadium, following two gigs in Cardiff and a five-night homecoming residency at Manchester’s Heaton Park.

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To kick off their stint in the capital, Noel and Liam paid tribute to Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy, who died on Tuesday (July 22), aged 76.

During ‘Live Forever’, they projected a huge portrait of Ozzy on stage, before Liam told the 90,000-strong crowd they would be dedicating the next song to “Ozzy Osbourne, Rock ‘N’ Roll Star” and launched into the 1994 track.

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Oasis join the likes of Judas Priest, Metallica, Yungblud, Elton John, Ronnie Wood, Tom Morello and many more in paying tribute to the heavy metal revolutionary, whose death came shortly after he took to the stage for his final-ever live shows at Sabbath’s huge ‘Back To The Beginning’ event in Birmingham on July 5.

The historic gig saw Osbourne reunite with former bandmates Tony Iommi, Bill Ward and Geezer Butler, with the latter taking to social media to write that he was “so glad we got to do it one last time, back in Aston”.

The show was live-streamed globally, and now has a cinema release scheduled for next year. Proceeds from the concert were split equally among Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Acom Children’s Hospice, and made the event the highest-grossing charity concert of all time, bringing in just under £200million for good causes.

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The likes of Coldplay, Alice Cooper, Ghost, Gojira and Drake have also dedicated performances to Osbourne, as fans shared footage and memories from the artist’s final live appearances.

Jake E. Lee, who played guitar with Ozzy in the ‘80s and appeared at ‘Back to the Beginning’, has shared the final message he received from the late singer.

Elsewhere, social media users have been flooding platforms with humorous clips of the Prince Of Darkness in The Osbournes. Meanwhile, gamers have been remembering his iconic advert for PlayStation’s virtual reality headset, the PSVR2.

In other news, Osbourne’s final memoir, Last Rites, is set to be published this autumn. The book will tell the “shocking, bitterly hilarious, never-before-told story of Ozzy’s descent into hell”, with the Prince Of Darkness detailing the health issues he’d faced in recent years.

Taking to Instagram Stories, Kelly Osbourne paid tribute to her father, saying that she had “lost the best friend [she] ever had”.

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