Yahoo! LAUNCH - News: Ozzy Osbourne Tour Manager Dies At OzzFest Stop



(7/25/03, 7 a.m. ET) -- OzzFest was in mourning on Thursday (July 24) in suburban Detroit as word spread through the tour about the death of Ozzy Osbourne's longtime tour manager. Bobby Thomson, 50, who had worked for Osbourne since 1983, died in his sleep on Thursday night (July 23) at the Townshend Hotel in Birmingham, Michigan, after an 18-month battle with throat cancer. Thomson, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and a resident of Los Angeles, was discovered in his hotel room on Thursday morning.