“Ozzy, we love you, wherever you’re going,” frontman Chris Martin said at the band’s Nashville show
Coldplay paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne during their concert in Nashville last night following the musician’s death. Frontman Chris Martin dedicated the performance to Osbourne before the band showcased a cover of Black Sabbath‘s 1972 ballad “Changes.”
“We’d like to dedicate this whole show to the incredible genius, talent, and character-full gift to the world who was Ozzy Osbourne,” Martin told the audience at Nissan Stadium. “We send our love to his family.” Coldplay then showcased a stripped down rendition of “Changes,” which opens with the lines, “I feel unhappy, I feel so sad/ I’ve lost the best friend that I ever had.”
After the song, Martin added, “Ozzy, we love you, wherever you’re going.”
Black Sabbath released “Changes” as part of their album Vol. 4. In his 2011 autobiography I Am Ozzy, Osbourne noted that the song was inspired by the end of guitarist Bill Ward‘s first marriage. In 2003, Osbourne and his daughter Kelly Osbourne released a duet version of the track with revised lyrics.
Earlier this month, Yungblud performed a cover of “Changes” live at Black Sabbath’s Back to the Beginning benefit concert at Birmingham, England’s Villa Park. Yungblud paid tribute to Osbourne in a lengthy Instagram post, writing, “I will never forget you — you will be in every single note I sing and with me every single time I walk on stage. Your cross around my neck is the most precious thing I own. You asked me once if there was anything you could do for me and as I said then and as I will say now for all of us the music was enough. You took us on your adventure — an adventure that started it all. I am truly heartbroken. You were the greatest of all time.”