Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler has paid a tender tribute to his friend and former bandmate Ozzy Osbourne, sharing his memories of how "the most incredible journey of our lives" began. Butler's recollections come in an essay penned for The Sunday Times, published yesterday, July 27.

"People always thought Ozzy was a feral wild man, but he had a heart of pure gold," he wrote of Osbourne, who died last week at age 76