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Robbie Williams led an all-star band through a performance of ‘No More Tears’ as part of the 2026 Brit Awards tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, who posthumously received the show’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Williams, “a long-time fan of the music and friend of the family [Osbourne]”, was accompanied on stage by musicians who had previously performed alongside Osbourne: guitarist Zakk Wylde, Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, Black Sabbath reunion drummer Tommy Clufetos and Adam Wakeman, keyboardist from Osbourne’s band.
In addition to the final performance of the awards show, Sharon and Kelly Osbourne accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Brit Awards on behalf of the late Ozzy; The Osbourne family hosted the Brit Awards in 2008.
Not the only honor for Ozzy Osbourne
“We all know how fickle this industry can be, and my old man has been blessed with a once-in-a-million career. He was at the top of his game for 56 years,” Sharon Osbourne said in her acceptance speech.
“Ozzy was authentic, he was gifted, completely unpredictable, a wild man. A real artist. He came from a small working-class neighborhood in Birmingham and rose to become one of the best-known and most respected musicians of his life. He experienced extraordinarily wonderful highs, but also very real lows – but he never stopped pushing himself tirelessly to do better.”
The Brit Awards recognition for Ozzy joined similar tributes across the US for the Black Sabbath singer and two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee – including at the MTV Video Music Awards and the Grammys, where Post Malone performed “War Pigs” alongside producer-guitarist Andrew Watt, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith and Guns N’ Roses’ Slash and Duff McKagan.
