See Robbie Williams Lead All-Star Ozzy Osbourne Tribute at 2026 Brit Awards

Robbie Williams led an all-star band through a rendition of “No More Tears” as part of the 2026 Brit Awards’ tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, who also posthumously received the show’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Williams, “a long-standing fan of the music and friend of the [Osbourne] family,” was joined onstage by musicians who previously performed alongside Osbourne: guitarist Zakk Wylde, Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, Black Sabbath reunion drummer Tommy Clufetos, and Adam keyboardist Wakeman from Osbourne’s band.

In addition to the award show-ending performance, Sharon and Kelly Osbourne were on hand to accept the Brit Awards’ lifetime achievement award on behalf of the late Ozzy; the Osbourne family previously hosted the Brit Awards in 2008.

“We all know how fickle this industry can be, and my old man was blessed with a one-in-a-million career. He was at the top of his game for 56 years,” Sharon Osbourne said during the acceptance speech.

“Ozzy was authentic, he was gifted, totally unpredictable, a wild man. A true artist. He came from a small working class neighborhood in Birmingham and he rose to become one of the most recognizable and respected musicians of his life. He was filled with extraordinarily wonderful high times but very real low times, but he never stopped tirelessly pushing himself to do better.”

The Brit Awards’ celebration of Ozzy followed similar tributes stateside for the Black Sabbath singer and two-time Rock Hall inductee, including at the MTV Video Music Awards and the Grammys, where Post Malone performed “War Pigs” alongside producer-guitarist Andrew Watt, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith, and Guns N’ Roses’ Slash and Duff McKagan.

From Rolling Stone US.