Sharon Osbourne curates No More Tears tribute as Robbie Williams leads supergroup in Brits Lifetime Achievement salute to Ozzy
The Brit Awards will posthumously honour Ozzy Osbourne with a Lifetime Achievement award, closing the ceremony with a Sharon Osbourne-curated tribute: a special arrangement of "No More Tears" fronted by Robbie Williams. The development matters because it collects prominent artists who worked with or admired Ozzy into a single moment intended to celebrate his five-decade career and ongoing influence.
Sharon Osbourne curates closing tribute
Sharon Osbourne curated the special arrangement of "No More Tears" that will close the show, selecting Robbie Williams to front the performance. Williams was personally invited by Sharon Osbourne to participate, in recognition of his long-standing fandom of Ozzy's music and his friendship with the family. The tribute is framed as a final, high-profile acknowledgement of Ozzy's impact on modern music.
Robbie Williams to front supergroup tribute
Singer Robbie Williams will lead the tribute performance in Manchester. Williams, who previously collaborated with Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi on the single "Rocket" and has performed sections of "Paranoid" in live settings, will serve as the public face of the finale. The decision positions Williams—an artist with prior direct musical connections to Ozzy and his bandmates—as the headliner for the moment.
Tribute lineup and the musicians involved
The Brits tribute will also feature musicians who played with Ozzy over the years: Adam Wakeman, Robert Trujillo, Tommy Clufetos and Zakk Wylde. The assembled lineup brings together players linked to different eras of Ozzy's career, aiming to evoke the breadth of his catalogue during the closing performance.
Ozzy Osbourne's passing and recent memorials
Ozzy Osbourne died last July, just weeks after his farewell performance in his hometown of Birmingham. This Brits tribute follows previous memorial performances earlier in the awards season, including a cover of "War Pigs" at the US Grammys by a group featuring Post Malone, Slash, Duff McKagan, Chad Smith and Andrew Watt.
Ozzy Osbourne's legacy and industry recognition
Over five decades, Ozzy Osbourne amassed more than 100 million worldwide album sales. His recorded output includes 19 studio albums and eight live albums with Black Sabbath, plus another 13 studio albums as a solo artist. Industry accolades in his career feature five Grammy awards, inductions into both the UK Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame—each achieved both with Black Sabbath and as a solo artist in separate years—and the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement with Black Sabbath. The honor at the Brits is presented as recognition of that lasting influence across generations of artists.
