LONDON (AP) — Ozzy Osbourne will reunite with the entire authentic members of Black Sabbath for the primary time in 20 years, in a gig that will likely be his final and that is being billed because the “greatest” heavy metallic present ever, promoters stated Wednesday.
The band, one of the crucial influential of all heavy metallic bands, will headline “The Back to the Beginning” present on July 5 at Villa Park, dwelling of the Aston Villa Soccer Membership in Birmingham, England.
“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 home of metal. Birmingham forever.”
Osbourne, who was the band’s entrance man throughout its peak interval within the Seventies and who was extensively referred to as the “Prince of Darkness,” will ship his personal brief set earlier than Sabbath bandmates, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Invoice Ward, be part of him for the primary time in twenty years.
The all-day occasion may even characteristic a bunch of main metallic bands together with Metallica, Slayer and Alice In Chains, with extra names to be introduced shortly.
“This would be the biggest heavy metallic present ever,” music director Tom Morello stated.
In 2020, Osbourne revealed he had been identified with Parkinson’s illness and he paused touring in 2023 after intensive spinal surgical procedure. He has struggled with well being points since 2003 following a near-fatal quad bike crash, accidents that have been aggravated in 2019 when he fell at dwelling.
Sabbath’s story started in Birmingham in 1968 when the 4 authentic members have been seeking to escape a lifetime of manufacturing facility work. Their eponymous debut album in 1970 made the U.Ok. high 10 and paved the way in which for a string of hit albums, together with 1971’s “Master of Reality” and “Vol. 4” a 12 months later. They went on to change into one of the crucial influential and profitable metallic bands of all time, promoting greater than 75 million albums worldwide.
Osbourne’s fame expanded into the mainstream within the early 2000s, when he joined his spouse Sharon Osbourne, and two of their kids within the vastly profitable MTV actuality TV present “The Osbournes.”
All earnings from the July 5 present will go to charities together with Remedy Parkinson’s, Birmingham Kids’s Hospital and Acorn Kids’s Hospice, which is supported by Aston Villa.
Tickets go on sale Friday, Feb. 14.
