Metal patriarch and medical anomaly Ozzy Osbourne announced via Instagram that he is offering a twenty-five thousand dollar reward for the return of a collection of guitars belonging to late Ozzy guitarist Randy Rhoads. The guitars were stolen from the Musonia School of Music in North Hollywood. Musonia was founded by Rhoads’ mother Delores in 1948 and Randy taught guitar there throughout his adolescence.
The school was burgled on Thanksgiving night, when thieves took a number of Rhoads’ guitars from the school’s museum that documents the guitarist’s life. One of the stolen instruments was Rhoads’ first guitar, a 1963 Harmony Rocket, a rare Marshall prototype that was custom made for Rhoads, a Depression-era trumpet owned by his mother, as well as other irreplaceable items belonging to his family.
“I am heartbroken that these treasured physical memories of Randy and Delores have been taken from the family,” Osbourne said in an Instagram post. “So I’ve decided to personally offer a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction and/or return of all stolen items.”
Rhoads served as Osbourne’s guitar player on 1980’s Blizzard Of Oz and 1981’s Diary Of A Madman, in addition to touring with Ozzy until his untimely death March 19th, 1982 at the age of 25 in a plane crash.
Read the full Instagram post from Ozzy Osbourne below.
