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Rod Stewart, 80, Slammed for AI Ozzy Osbourne Tribute

Stewart had a strange way of memorializing the late rocker, who died July 22.

Rod Stewart is coming under fire for showing an AI tribute to Ozzy Osbourne at his show, just days after the rocker’s death. Rather than utilize the very real existing footage of himself performing with the Black Sabbath frontman, Stewart, 80, instead chose to pay tribute another way during a July 29 concert: with an AI-generated video. Titled “Eternal Stars,” the video, which played as Stewart performed his song “Forever Young,” renders Osbourne atop a cloud, posing for selfies with a lineup of fellow deceased musicians. In a clip of the video shared on X by one concert goer, Osbourne can be seen wielding a selfie stick for snaps with Prince, Tina Turner, Tupac, Aaliyah, Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury, Kurt Cobain, Whitney Houston, Bob Marley, and late rapper XXXTentacion, among others. Concert goers expressed their outrage in real time, with one shouting, “No, not Tupac!” in the background of the now viral video.