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Black Sabbath may be launching a comeback with their hugely anticipated farewell gig but their most famed member, Ozzy Osbourne, will not be joining them on stage for every song.
The Prince Of Darkness, 76, who is married to music manager Sharon, confessed that he will only be doing ‘little bits and pieces’.
The legendary rock band – who have a combined age of 303 – will reunite for one final concert – dubbed Back To The Beginning – in their hometown of Birmingham in July as part of an all day heavy metal concert at Villa Park.
Ozzy, who hasn’t played a full show for six years said on his Ozzy Speaks show: ‘I’m not planning on doing a set with Black Sabbath but I am doing little bits and pieces with them.
‘I am doing what I can, where I feel comfortable.’
The all-day event will also include performances from legendary metal acts including Metallica, Slayer, Gojira, Alice in Chains and and Lamb of God, as well as a ‘supergroup’ performance comprising members of Limp Bizkit, Van Halen, The Smashing Pumpkins and Faith No More.
Black Sabbath may be launching a comeback with their hugely anticipated farewell gig but their most famed member, Ozzy Osbourne , will not be joining them on stage for every song
The Prince Of Darkness, 76, who is married to music manager Sharon, confessed that he will only be doing ‘little bits and pieces’ (pictured left to right: Geezer Butler, Bill Ward, Ozzy and Tony in 2005)
All profits from the event will be shared equally between three different charities: Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, and Acorn Children’s Hospice.
Concert ticket prices have become controversial issues in recent months, with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launchING an investigation into Ticketmaster over its handling of the Oasis reunion ticket sale, which saw fans hit by alleged ‘dynamic pricing’.
Announcing the concert last month, Sabbath frontman Osbourne, who has been plagued with health issues after he was diagnosed with Parkinsons in 2019, said: ‘It’s my time to go back to the beginning… time for me to give back to the place where I was born.’
‘How blessed am I to do it with the help of people whom I love. Birmingham is the true home of metal. Birmingham forever.’
Black Sabbath held their first rehearsal at Newtown Community Centre, a stone’s throw from Villa Park.
They previously played a farewell show to a sold out audience of 16,000 people at the city’s NEC Arena in 2017.
The gig will take place at the Villa Park stadium and will be curated by Rage Against The Machine star Tom Morello.
Ozzy gave a health update on Monday after announcing the gig.
The musician has undergone seven surgeries in the past five years, including a fourth spinal surgery in September 2023, and has been battling Parkinson’s disease since 2003.
The legendary rock band – who have a combined age of 303 – will reunite for one final concert – dubbed Back To The Beginning – in their hometown of Birmingham in July as part of an all day heavy metal concert at Villa Park
The musician has undergone seven surgeries in the past five years, including a fourth spinal surgery in September 2023, and has been battling Parkinson’s disease since 2003; pictured in 2022
Giving an update, he said: ‘You know what, I go on about the way I can’t walk and I can’t do this, but you know what I was thinking over the holidays? For all of my complaining, I’m still alive’; pictured with Sharon in 2017
Speaking on SiriusXM’s Ozzy’s Boneyard, he said: ‘You know what, I go on about the way I can’t walk and I can’t do this, but you know what I was thinking over the holidays? For all of my complaining, I’m still alive.’
He continued: ‘I may be moaning about how I can’t walk as well but as I look down the road, there’s people that didn’t do half as much as me, and they didn’t make it.’
‘I’m trying to get back on my feet.’
The British musician was diagnosed with a mild form of Parkinson’s disease in 2003, however he only went public with the condition in 2020.
However, Ozzy has said that his biggest struggles are due to a fall which he suffered in 2019 which caused metal rods in his back to dislodge.
The rods had been put there following a quad bike accident at his Buckinghamshire home in 2003.
He told Rolling Stone UK magazine: ‘The second surgery went drastically wrong and virtually left me crippled.
‘I thought I’d be up and running after the second and third, but with the last o
ne they put a f*ing rod in my spine.
‘They found a tumour in one of the vertebrae, so they had to dig all that out too. It’s pretty rough, man, and my balance is all f*ed up.’
The Prince of Darkness also said how he has ‘ten tears left’ to live as he recalled a disagreed with his wife over smoking cannabis.
Ozzy’s wife Sharon was at the announcement of the new show at Birmingham’s Villa Park, the concert venue, on Wednesday alongside the band’s guitarist Tony Iommi.
Sharon proudly held up a Villa football shirt with Ozzy’s name on the back as she posed pitchside.
Black Sabbath pictured in the 70s – L-R: (back) Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, (front) Bill Ward, Ozzy Osbourne – posed, group shot
The group pioneered heavy metal music in the early 1970s with hits such as War Pigs, Paranoid and Iron Man.
Since their last gig together in 2005, Black Sabbath has played in partial reunions but never in their original line-up.
Sharon, who shares three children with the star, has also admitted the show will be a testing experience for the star.
She told The Sun: ‘He’s very happy to be coming back and very emotional about this. Parkinson’s is a progressive disease.
‘It’s not something you can stabilise. It affects different parts of the body and it’s affected his legs. But his voice is as good as it’s ever been.’
Profits from the show will be shared equally between the charities Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Acorn Children’s Hospice, with the Parkinson’s charity being selected by Sharon and Ozzy.
