Black Sabbath reunite one more time for Ozzy Osbourne’s last concert

Black Sabbath reunites for the last time – and for a good cause.

On July 5, Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward joins again to a concert in Birmingham, the English town where the band formed in 1968. This will mark their first concert together in 20 years.

The band’s reunion show in Villa Park, appropriate the title Back to the Beginning, will benefit Cure Parkinson’s (from which Osbourne suffers with spinal cord injuries), Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Acorn Children’s Hospice.

“It’s my time to return to the beginning … time for me to give back to the place where I was born,” Osbourne, 76, said in a statement. “How blessed am I to do it with the help of people that I love. Birmingham is the true home of metal. Birmingham forever.”

Participation in Black Sabbath for the Benefit Show is Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Gojira, Halstorm, Alice in Chains, Lamb of Good, Anthrax and Mastodon. Musicians Guns N ‘Roses’ Slash, Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, Korn’s Jonathan Davis, let Bizkits Fred Durst, Wolfgang van Halen and rage against the machine’s Tom Morello will also go together for the show as a super band.

Morello, 60, who serves as the concert’s musical director, said, “It will be the biggest Heavy Metal concert ever.” Per. BlackOsbourne will perform several of his own songs before staying with the stage of Black Sabbath for a set together.

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“He’s a good time. He’s really good,” his wife Sharon told BBC News. “He’s so excited about this about being with the guys again and all his friends. It’s exciting for everyone.”

She added, however, that it will mark the end of the rocker’s live career. “Ozzy didn’t have a chance to say goodbye to his friends, to his fans, and he feels there has been no full stop. This is his full stop.”

Osbourne previously thought of the idea of ​​a black Sabbath gene association. Talking with Rolling stones In September 2020 he said it is “not for me to get the band back together.” “It’s done,” he added.

“The only thing I regret is not doing the last goodbye -show in Birmingham with (drummer) Bill Ward. I felt really bad about it,” he reflected. “It would have been so nice. I don’t know what the circumstances behind it were, but it would have been nice. I’ve talked to him a few times …”

Osbourne continued, “But I don’t have any of the slightest interest in (doing another concert). Maybe Tony gets bored now.”

After several health setbacks, the “Crazy Train” singer expressed an interest in acting again. “I just want to get back on that scene. I have to get back on that scene. It drives me nuts and is not able to,” Osbourne told Yahoo Entertainment In December 2022.

“I can’t relax. I always have to do something.”

Tickets for the Back to the Beginning concert will be sold on Friday, February 14 at. 10 GMT at Livenation.co.uk.