Ozzy Osbourne is ready to reunite along with his Black Sabbath bandmates for what can be his remaining efficiency – “the greatest heavy metal show ever”.
The announcement was made by the star’s spouse Sharon Osbourne and bandmate Tony Iommi at Villa Park in Birmingham, which can host the gig on 5 July.
The Again To The Starting present would be the heavy metallic band’s first efficiency collectively in 20 years, with unique stars Osbourne, Iommi, Geezer Butler and Invoice Ward.
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Black Sabbath within the Nineteen Seventies. Pic: Shutterstock
It’ll additionally function units from acts together with Metallica, Slayer, Alice In Chains and a “supergroup of musicians” together with Duff McKagan and Slash (Weapons ‘n’ Roses), Billy Corgan (The Smashing Pumpkins), Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit) and Tom Morello (Rage Towards The Machine).
Osbourne, 76, who has confronted well being issues together with Parkinson’s illness in recent times, will play his personal quick set earlier than becoming a member of his bandmates “for his final bow”.
Earnings can be shared between Treatment Parkinson’s, Birmingham Kids’s Hospital, and Acorn’s Kids’s Hospice, organisers stated.
“It’s my time to go Back to the Beginning, time for me to give back to the place where I was born,” Osbourne stated in an announcement. “How blessed am I to do it with the help of people whom I love.
“Birmingham is the true residence of metallic. Birmingham ceaselessly.”
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Osbourne in 1978. Pic: Andrew Kent/Retna/Mediapunch/Shutterstock
In 2023, Osbourne instructed followers he was not “physically capable” of performing exhibits he had deliberate in Europe and the UK, saying he “never imagined” his touring days would “have ended this way”.
The singer had in depth spinal surgical procedure after a fall at residence in 2019 aggravated accidents he suffered in a near-fatal quad bike crash in 2003.
Regardless of his well being issues, he has appeared at some one-off exhibits in recent times – together with the Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham in 2022 and at half-time throughout an NFL recreation in California in the identical yr.
Black Sabbath fashioned in Birmingham in 1968 and went on to change into one of the profitable metallic bands of all time, promoting greater than 75 million albums worldwide through the years.
Morello, who can be music director for the reunion present, stated: “This will be the greatest heavy metal show ever.”
Different acts confirmed for the gig embrace Pantera, Gojira, Halestorm, Lamb Of God, Anthrax and Mastodon.
Extra names can be introduced shortly, organisers stated.
Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday 14 February.
