“The cowboy showed up for the Prince of Darkness” — Blake Shelton’s silent country tribute at Ozzy’s funeral stuns mourners on both sides of the Atlantic 🕯️🤠🖤

He didn’t wear black leather. No eyeliner. No screaming guitars.
Blake Shelton arrived in London under gray skies, in worn-out cowboy boots and a faded denim jacket — the only country star among a sea of rock legends. And yet… he belonged.

Ozzy once called Blake “the most honest voice in modern music” in a backstage moment that never made the headlines. But Blake never forgot.

At the funeral, Blake didn’t sing. He didn’t speak. Instead, he pulled a small, battered American flag from his coat pocket — a gift Ozzy once gave him during a late-night tour stop in Nashville — and laid it gently on the casket.

“I didn’t come to perform,” Blake told reporters outside. “I came because Ozzy believed in voices like mine… even if we sang different storms.”

Kelly Osbourne, standing nearby, wiped a tear and nodded: “Daddy loved that about him.”

Sometimes the loudest tribute… is silence from the man who never needed to scream.