Final month, Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath took the stage at their closing present “Again to the Starting” at Villa Park in Birmingham, England. Whereas the present was placed on to provide them a correct send-off, it additionally had a twin objective: to boost cash for charity.
Funds raised by the live performance are set to be equally break up between Remedy Parkinson’s, Birmingham Kids’s Hospital, and Acorn Kids’s Hospice.
Within the days following the present, a number of shops reported that “Again to the Starting” had raised an enormous $190 million. Now, Ozzy Osbourne’s spouse and supervisor Sharon Osbourne is refuting these claims.
In a simply revealed interview with Pollstar performed a number of days earlier than Ozzy’s loss of life, Sharon insists that they’re nonetheless unsure how a lot cash they really raised.
“I’m actually comfortable that we’re speaking, as a result of one of many issues that’s scary me is all this false press about [how] we’ve made $140 million and all of this, and I’m like, ‘God, I want we may have, for one gig,’” she mentioned, implying that the precise financial determine may very well be a lot lower than beforehand reported.
“It’s simply ridiculous, the totally different tales. I went on the web the subsequent morning and it was like, $140 million, $160 million. And I’m like, ‘The place does these things come from?’ And other people like Billboard have printed it.”
When the interviewer famous that the precise reported quantity was $190 million, Sharon replied:
“Oh, $190 million? Thanks, Billboard, for getting it mistaken. Simply ridiculous. It takes a very very long time [to calculate], as a result of we’ve had all the bands that we had are available in and their bills, and it’ll take a superb six weeks to get the ultimate quantity. As a result of we’re promoting merch for one more two weeks from the gig. So, we’ve received one other two weeks of gross sales but so as to add to it. It’ll be one other 4 weeks and it’ll be executed.”
