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Coldplay paid Ozzy Osbourne at yesterday’s concert in Nashville Tribute. Front man Chris Martin devoted the entire show to Osbourne before the band played a cover of the Black Sabbath ballad “Changes” from 1972.
Emotional homage to a legend
“We want to devote this whole show to the incredible genius, talent and the strong gift for the world that was Ozzy Osbourne,” said Martin to the audience in the Nissan Stadium. “We send our love to his family.” Coldplay then presented a reduced version of “Changes”. That begins with the lines: “I feel unhappy, i feel so sad/ i’ve lost the best friends that i ever had.”
Martin continued after the song. “Ozzy, we love you. Wherever you go.”
Black Sabbath published “Changes” on her album “Vol. 4”. In his autobiography “I am Ozzy” from 2011, Osbourne wrote that the song was inspired by the end of the first marriage of guitarist Bill Ward. In 2003 Osbourne and his daughter Kelly Osbourne published a duet version of the song. However, with revised lines of text.
Yungblud also pays tribute
At the beginning of this month, Yungblud played a cover of “Changes” live at the charity concert “Back to the Beginning” by Black Sabbath in Villa Park in Birmingham, England. Yungblud paid tribute to Osbourne in a long Instagram post. “I will never forget you. You will be in every single note that I sing. And every time I will be with me when I enter the stage. Your cross on my necklace is the most valuable that I have. You once asked me if you could do anything for myself and as I said at the time and say for all today: The music was enough. You took us to your adventure – an adventure. deeply shaken.