Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie were spotted looking sad at Ozzy Osbourne’s private funeral.
Musicians including Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie poured into Ozzy Osbourne's English estate Thursday to lay him to rest 💔🕊️https://t.co/l0cxURJSRA pic.twitter.com/FnR15qhIRk
— TMZ (@TMZ) July 31, 2025
Today we laid to rest a beloved friend. I am eternally grateful that you let me into your life Ozzy. Your inspiration and love will always be with me. Thank you Sharon and family for a reverent, beautiful ceremony. Your legacy lives on.
— Marilyn Manson (@marilynmanson) July 31, 2025
Manson didn’t perform at Ozzy’s last concert, but Alice in Chains did.
While Layne Staley is arguably the most well-known voice in Alice in Chains, lead vocal duties were also shared by guitarist Jerry Cantrell.
In an interview with Gibson TV, Cantrell revealed that he never wanted to be the band’s singer, but was encouraged to by Staley.
“I’ve always been a fan of bands that have multiple voices, multiple lead singers – people that can carry a tune, have a different palette. It’s something I always thought was kinda cool about our band that maybe a lot of other Seattle bands didn’t have,” Cantrell said.
“I never really wanted to be a lead singer, ever. I just wanted to play guitar, write songs, and sing backups. Partly just because it’s a lot easier to do that, and secondly, we had Layne Staley. I don’t need to be singing anything, he’s got it covered. I’ve still never heard anybody that sounds like him and I never will.”
“It’s really cool to have been in a band with him and to have created the music that we did together. He had his own thing. He didn’t sound like anybody and nobody really sounds like him. I remember having a couple of conversations with Layne, especially on the first EP because that was pretty much my first experience of singing a lead on an Alice record.”
“He was like, ‘Man, these are your lyrics. No offense, but they probably mean more to you than they do to me. I love singing them and all that, but they’re your words. You should sing some of these.’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t really want to sing them. I’m not as good a singer as you. You’re great, you just keep singing.’ He was like, ‘Nah, you should really try.'”
“I started eventually singing more and more, and that kinda kept happening, so we became more of a tandem instead of me just being a backup singer to Layne’s lead. We started to get a bit more closer and carry the weight together, and also the versatility of having a couple of different voices.”
“The cool thing about it is the way that we sang together, like the two of our voices made a bigger voice. You can totally tell when it’s him, you can totally tell when it’s me, but a lot of times when we sing together, you can’t tell which one is which.”
