"He really wanted to do it and he was determined to do it," the group's guitarist said following Osbourne's death

Ozzy Osbourne went out with a bang. Following the rock icon’s death at age 76 on Tuesday, his Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi told ITV News that he thinks Osbourne “held out” for the band’s July 5 farewell concert before he passed away.

Sykes appeared on Thin Lizzy's harder-edged 1983 album Thunder and Lightning, the group's Top 5 U.K. hit studio finale with the late frontman Phil Lynott. Sykes then joined Whitesnake for a two-album mid-'80s stint that began with the reworked 1984 edition of Slide It In.