The 2025 MTV VMAs can pay tribute to legendary Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne with a efficiency by Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, Yungblud and Nuno Bettencourt. They may take the stage Sunday to honor Osbourne with a medley of his best hits.
Yungblud, Tyler and Bettencourt had been among the many artists who joined Osbourne in his Again to the Starting live performance simply weeks earlier than his demise. Osbournce died July 22 of a coronary heart assault on the age of 76.
With greater than 120 million albums offered nationwide, Osbourne was a five-time Grammy winner, two-time Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame inductee, each with Black Sabbath in 2006 and as a solo artist in 2024, with stars on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame and Birmingham Stroll of Stars, amongst different honors.
His lengthy historical past with MTV dates again to the ’80s with Headbanger’s Ball. His actuality TV present Battle for Ozzfest aired for one season in 2004. In it, eight bands competed via a collection of challenges for a spot among the many lineup within the steel pageant, Ozzfest.
In 2002, MTV premiered The Osbournes, a verité-style actuality collection specializing in the house lifetime of patriarch Ozzy, matriarch Sharon Osbourne, daughter Kelly and son Jack. The present offered a aspect of the singer few had seen — a bit doddering, typically befuddled and the supply of the collection’ comedy. The present gained the Emmy for Excellent Non-Fiction Program (Actuality) in 2002 and was nominated once more the next 12 months. Its closing episode aired on March 21, 2005.
Hosted by LL Cool J, the 2025 MTV VMAs additionally will function performances by Girl Gaga, Sabrina Carpenter, Submit Malone, Doja Cat, Ricky Martin, who will probably be honored with the VMAs Latin Icon Award, Busta Rhymes, who will obtain the inaugural Rock the Bells Visionary Award and Mariah Carey, who will obtain the Video Vanguard Award.
The awards present will air reside coast-to-coast from New York’s UBS Area, airing Sunday, Sept. 7 at 8 PM, ET/5 PM, PT on CBS, simulcast on MTV and streaming on Paramount+ within the U.S.
Erik Pedersen contributed to this report.
