Ozzy Osbourne to be honoured with Living Legend Award

London, July 24 : Rock Legend Ozzy Osbourne will be honoured this year with the Living Legend award in the Classic Rock Roll of Honour.

Alice Cooper, who is a previous recipient of the honour, revealed that Osbourne would get the award at November's Classic Rock awards where Whitesnake, Led Zeppelin and Def Leppard are also nominated for three awards.

As for Ozzy himself, well he's over the moon.

"I couldn't be happier to know that Classic Rock haven't written me off!" BBC quoted Ozzy, as saying.

"Seriously, it's a great honour and I'm looking forward to going to my first Classic Rock Awards in November. Can't wait to see you there," the singer added. Led Zeppelin's famous guitarist Jimmy Page, whose broken finger was the hot topic of the evening, was last year's recipient of the living legend award.

The event would also see rockers Def Leppard and David Coverdale's Whitesnake performing.

On the other hand Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Black Crowe, Alice Cooper as well as Big Linda, Stone Gods and four others have been nominated in the category of Album of the Year.

Ozzy Osbourne would be awarded with others winners at the gala ceremony, which would be held at London's Park Lane Hotel on the 3rd of November.

ANI