LONDON (AP) — Ozzy Osbourne will reunite with the entire unique members of Black Sabbath for the primary time in 20 years, in a gig that might be his final and that is being billed because the “greatest” heavy metallic present ever, promoters mentioned 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, house 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 mentioned in a press release. “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 Nineteen Seventies and who was broadly referred to as the “Prince of Darkness,” will ship his personal quick set earlier than Sabbath bandmates, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Invoice Ward, be a part of him for the primary time in 20 years.
The all-day occasion will 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 mentioned.
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 had been aggravated in 2019 when he fell at house.
Sabbath’s story started in Birmingham in 1968 when the 4 unique members had been trying 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 grow to be 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 youngsters within the vastly profitable MTV actuality TV present “The Osbournes.”
All income from the July 5 present will go to charities together with Treatment Parkinson’s, Birmingham Youngsters’s Hospital and Acorn Youngsters’s Hospice, which is supported by Aston Villa.
Tickets go on sale Friday, Feb. 14.