Yungblud has vowed to spend the rest of his life honouring Ozzy Osbourne

He told The Sunday Times Culture magazine: "He taught me self-belief and so I'm going to take his spirit and make sure everybody knows for the rest of my life who Ozzy Osbourne was - he meant everything to me."

Yungblud - whose real name is Dominic Harrison - was stunned when he heard Ozzy had died, just two weeks after he had been part of the rocker's farewell show in his native Birmingham.

He said: "Ozzy was effervescent.

"I told a friend that I thought Ozzy had another five albums in him. I didn't think he was going to sing live any more, but that day he was so full of life and being hilarious, laughing that laugh of his. And then he did the show and then he died. It's so overwhelming."

The 11 Minutes hitmaker gave a reading at Ozzy's funeral on the request of his family and he admits he gets "emotional" talking about his idol because he had always meant so much to him.

He choked up as he said: "I just love him and right till the very end he supported me.

"I get emotional, because I've loved him since I was about two.

"He was such a character - I remember his glasses. He looked cool and he got me through a lot as a young person. He fuelled rebellion within me - made me determined to be myself. But when I got to know him I realised he was completely different to who I thought he was.

"He was just a human being. "I saw the man behind the character on stage - that guy who made me a salami sandwich when we first met. I saw that his heart was as big as I believed it would be.

"I had a moment with him, and now he's passed on to the next life."