Ozzy Osbourne Clears Up Retirement Speculation

He posted the following tribute via social media, "Today I lost my hero, the greatest man I've ever known or will know. Billie Charles Holt passed away this evening, with my mom and all his kids present, knowing he was loved and respected more than anyone. This man was a god among men, he taught me everything I ever needed to know about being a MAN. Lessons that took a long time for me to realize the truth behind them all.He built the family home by hand and paved the sidewalk of my street when it was just dirt. True greatness.I fed him his last meal, he wanted to rest, and passed in his sleep later.I love you dad. I'm broken. What feels like beyond repair at this moment. But he's no longer in pain. Thank you to all who ever sent me positive vibes and whoever wished me well during this trying time.

The event at the city's Save Mart Center marked only the second 2018 appearance of the title track to Metallica's second album in the band's set, which happened during the group's first date in the California locale in 10 years.

The footage of a roaring fire is accompanied by nine holiday-themed tunes, including a selection of tracks from the Seattle band 's Ten Club 7-inch Christmas singles series, a 1991 demo entitled "Acoustic #1)", and the 1998 "Yield" single, "Wishlist."

The Red Rocker and supergroup The Circle will open the new year with a January 18 performance at the Desert Classic Concert Series at the PGA West & La Quinta Country Club in La Quinta, CA as part of the 60th annual Desert Classic PGA tournament.

The band will release their debut studio album, "Space Between", early in 2019 - and play it in its entirety on the road, with more details on the record and a companion tour to come.

In the spring, the singer will return for a fourth season of "Sammy Hagar's Rock & Roll Road Trip", the AXS TV series that sees him interview and often perform with some of the most popular and influential musicians in rock.

Directed by Bill Yukich, the clip presents footage of the Swedish rockers at various stops on a fall run across North America on "A Pale Tour Named Death."

The 8-week theater series - which opened in Grand Prairie, TX on October 25 - hit almost 40 cities on the continent and included the group's first headlining US arena shows at The Forum in Los Angeles, CA and the trek's closing night at New York's Barclays Center on December 15.

The song marks the only tune in the legendary UK group's catalog to feature shared lead vocals by guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Richard Wright.

While Pink Floyd second album reached No. 9 on the UK charts, it remains the band's only record to fail to appear on the US charts.

Fans will be able to hear some of the songs from the project next spring when Mason will perform vintage material by the group on a spring 2019 tour of North America with his outfit, Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets.

With a focus on material from Pink Floyd's pre-"The Dark Side Of The Moon" era, the 5-week series will hit most US major cities after it opens in Vancouver, BC on March 12.

The band's latest single comes from their latest studio album "And Justice To None", which they released back in May. The new behind the scenes video for the track's promo clip can be streamed here.

Spencer announced to fans last week that he has been forced to step away from the band following a second back surgery. He explained his decision: "This decision has been weighing on me for months; and now the time has finally come. I started to play when I was 6 years old, and I feel fortunate that my body has provided me with several decades of doing what I love most: drumming. However, the rigorous physical wear and tear has got me to the point where I feel I can no longer deliver a performance that brings me satisfaction and joy.

The song comes from Hackett's forthcoming studio album "At The Edge Of Light", which is set to hit stores on January 25th in various formats (digital CD, 2LP/CD, and Mediabook CD/DVD.)

Steve had this to say about the song, "I was inspired to write Underground Railroad in Wilmington, Delaware, discovering about that amazing network that helped slaves escape in pre-Civil War America, spearheaded by brave people like Harriet Tubman.

The new visual is for the band's track "Nothing Can Stop Me". The song comes from their latest studio album "A War Against You". Watch the video here.

I wrote the lyrics for "Quiet Hours" while I was traveling through the National Parks of Utah and Arizona so I think that the landscapes out there played a role in shaping the song; I'd never seen nights or mornings quite like those. The area reminded me of one of the settings in the universe of our books, The Charmingly Odd and Oddly Charming Tales of the Thundercloud Kid, so I knew that the poem could fit into the project. As soon as I got home, I wrote the music on my guitar in a few hours in my bedroom, as is standard procedure. It's a pretty simple little series of chord progressions, but something about it sounded like open space and desert winds to me. In the process, I toyed with the key a little bit to strike the right mood, and to make sure that it would fit right into the wheelhouse of our vocalist, Dallas Greene. We added the outro after the rest of the song was already written because we wanted the music to build into a kind of restrained crescendo as opposed to just repeating the chorus for a third time.

We recorded the song at GCR Audio in Buffalo, which is owned by Robbie Takac of the Goo Goo Dolls, so we actually used a lot of their equipment on the final version. Recording the drums was a funny scene since the beat stays the same throughout the entire song and wasn't exactly the toughest assignment for our drummer, Frank Zanti. He looked pretty bored. After we had the basic track recorded, Jimmy Douglass heard it through the grapevine and wanted to work on it too, so he did the mixing and mastering in his studio for us. The electronic sounds that you can hear peppered in the background were Jimmy's idea and he also spliced the vocals at the end of the song to create kind of a cut-up, sampled sound to Dallas' voice. The guy's a master, there's no denying that. At the last minute, we had some pressure from our team to change the name of the song from "Laying in the Dirt," which was the working title, because technically, that wasn't grammatically correct. I argued that there was a specific reason for that grammatical error, but lost out to the powers that be. I guess "Well After Quiet Hours" works too, though.