Ozzy Osbourne was the greatest singer heavy metal ever knew, his voice a keening wail that seemed to float above the heaviest of riffs, from his earliest days of laying the foundation for what metal would eventually become at the helm of Black Sabbath to a solo career that somehow held its own against the weight of his own legacy.

The family of Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne have been left heartbroken by the "vile" conspiracy theories that have been circulating about the singer's death