BRITs planning tribute to Ozzy Osbourne and Mani
Ozzy Osbourne and Gary 'Mani' Mounfield will be remembered with a special tribute at the BRIT Awards this year, in a new In Memoriam section.
Ozzy Osbourne and Gary 'Mani' Mounfield will be remembered with a special tribute at the BRIT Awards.
The 76-year-old Black Sabbath rocker and the 63-year-old Stone Roses musician passed away last year within months of each other and bosses at the BRIT Awards want to pay tribute to them with a new In Memoriam section of the show.
A source told The Sun: “A large-scale In Memoriam section of the Brits is being planned.
“Rather than focusing on just Ozzy or Mani, it will remember several artists we have lost in the past 12 months.”
This comes after show bosses paid tribute to late One Direction singer Liam Payne at last year’s ceremony.
Ozzy died from "acute myocardial infarction" and "out of hospital cardiac arrest", with coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease with autonomic dysfunction as “joint causes” of his death on July 22, 2025.
Weeks before his passing, Ozzy bowed out performing with the rock band and as a solo artist with the Back to the Beginning gig at Villa Park, Aston, Birmingham, England, on July 5.
And his wife Sharon, 73, told close pal, broadcaster Piers Morgan, 60, on his Uncensored YouTube show that doctors warned Ozzy that he would not survive doing the farewell show - but he did it anyway.
Sharon insists that Ozzy - who mustered the strength for the gig because he "just wanted it so bad to say thank you to everyone" - understood he was at the end of his life when he performed at the show.
She explained to Piers - who is also a friend of The Osbournes: "Very much so, because he’d been so ill this year, terribly, terribly ill.
"And when we came to England, and we were meeting with new doctors here, a new medical team for him, the main doctor said to him, ‘If you do this show, that’s it. You’re not going to get through it.’
"But we just sat there, and he said, I’m doing it. I want to do it, and I’m doing it. He knew his body was failing him. He was in so much pain, so much pain.
"And I mean, you know, he had pneumonia three times this year. He’d had sepsis. That’s what really, really destroyed him.
"He was on these shots of antibiotics. It used to take 20 minutes for the shot to go in, and he had that twice a day, and it kills everything in you, the Good, the Bad, everything, so much antibiotics, and he just couldn’t get over that. He just couldn’t."
Meanwhile, Mani died aged 63 at his home in Heaton Moor, Stockport last November.
During his funeral at Manchester Cathedral in December, Mani’s coffin was carried by Liam Gallagher and his Stone Roses bandmates Ian Brown, John Squire and Reni.
However, The Sun reports that none of them are expected to take part in the BRITs tribute to him.
