This July, Black Sabbath will take the stage one final time, performing a farewell present of their hometown of Birmingham, UK. The huge occasion can be being billed as Ozzy Osbourne’s final ever efficiency, because the musician is battling Parkinson’s illness.
Together with Black Sabbath, the live performance will characteristic units by Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Alice in Chains, Billy Corgan, Sammy Hagar, Slash, Tom Morello, and lots of extra.
Internet hosting the occasion is actor and musician Jason Momoa, who opened as much as NME in a latest interview about taking part within the present.
“When Sharon [Osbourne] requested me to host, I used to be blown away,” he mentioned. “I’m simply so excited to be there. It’s humorous as a result of I used to be, like, begging for tickets, and now I become internet hosting.”
Momoa went on to clarify that he was initially set to attend the final present of Black Sabbath’s “The Finish” tour in 2017 after the filming of “Aquaman” concluded, however missed out after a household emergency pressured him to fly dwelling as an alternative. “I used to be fairly bummed out about that, however Dad duties…”
Whereas the actor has by no means met Ozzy Osbourne, he does have a little bit of a connection to the musician. In 2020, when Ozzy launched his solo album “Abnormal Man,” he was not nicely sufficient to movie the video for the monitor “Scary Little Inexperienced Males,” so Momoa was requested to step in.
Elsewhere within the interview, Momoa admitted that the one album he at all times comes again to is Black Sabbath’s 1970 self-titled report.
“It simply launched me to every thing. There are simply so many [good songs] that it blows your thoughts. After which they got here out with ‘Paranoid’ [six months later]. One yr, two masterpieces. I’m a creature of behavior. I nonetheless hearken to all these songs day-after-day,” he mentioned.
