KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — Forty-four years ago, rock legend Ozzy Osbourne got engaged in Michigan.
Osbourne died Monday. He was 76.
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In an October 2015 social media post, Sharon Osbourne shared a photo of the day her husband proposed to her, saying it was in Kalamazoo in 1981. The post didn’t offer more details about the visit. The two went on to marry in Hawaii in July 1982.
Various online records show Osbourne had a concert at Pine Knob Music Theatre north of Detroit in August 1981 while on his “Blizzard of Ozz” tour. Newspaper reports archived by the Kalamazoo Public Library show he later played at Wings Stadium in Kalamazoo in February 1982…