Lower than a month in the past, Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne performed their closing present at Again To The Starting in Birmingham, England, their hometown.
Again To The Starting was introduced on February fifth by Ozzy Osbourne‘s spouse, Sharon Osbourne, after it was recognized that Ozzy was beginning to lose the power to stroll after his analysis of Parkinson’s again in 2019. Sharon Osbourne introduced the present as a profit live performance, with all proceeds and donations going to Acorns Kids’s Hospice, Birmingham Kids’s Hospital, and Remedy Parkinson’s.
The charity present was to have a dozen metallic icons honour the person and band that based heavy metallic earlier than Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne‘s final efficiency – Alice in Chains, Anthrax, Gojira, Weapons N’ Roses, Halestorm, Lamb of God, Mastodon, Metallica, Pantera, Rival Sons, Slayer, and Device in addition to supergroups consisting of Sleep Token members and Yungblud had been on the invoice – with your entire present breaking information by elevating over $190 million for the three charities.
Throughout his closing efficiency, Ozzy Osbourne performed a person set with 5 tracks, “I Do not Know,” “Mr. Crowley,” “Suicide Resolution,” “Mama, I am Coming Dwelling,” and “Loopy Prepare,” whereas Black Sabbath closed out the historic night time with “Conflict Pigs,” “N.I.B.,” “Iron Man,” and “Paranoid.”
After Again To The Starting, on July tenth, Ozzy Osbourne introduced his upcoming memoir, Final Rites out by way of Hachette Guide Group on the seventh of October. The autobiography is claimed to cowl occasions as current because the efficiency simply days earlier than in 2025, so there’s actually no telling how completed the memoir was earlier than the dreaded announcement got here.
As a result of lower than three weeks after Ozzy Osbourne gave again to town through which he was born, he handed away on July twenty second in Buckinghamshire, England, accompanied by his family members.
For days, the web was flooded with statements, tributes, pictures, movies, and memorials for the beloved Prince of Darkness, highlighting the profession that began metallic. Black Sabbath‘s signature low tuning was unbeknownst to most people on the time of their founding in 1968, providing the foundations of exploration into decrease tunings and darker sounds.
Town of Birmingham, which had been embellished for the extremely anticipated Again To The Starting present – providing exhibitions on Black Sabbath‘s journey, a model new mural, a photograph gallery of the band, and extra – quickly grew to become embellished with dozens of bouquets of flowers, letters of admiration, drawings of the departed Ozzy as an alternative as followers paid tribute to the band they beloved so dearly. And whereas the vitality could not have been unhappy in Birmingham, it was melancholic – there was a way of camaraderie amongst the mourners.
Bands and musicians in attendance of Again To The Starting started providing the occasional interview or remark about Ozzy‘s dying, opening up about how sudden it was, with Pantera even rearranging their tour schedule with the intention to correctly grieve Ozzy. Pantera‘s Zakk Wylde was Ozzy‘s long-time guitarist.
Then, this previous Wednesday, on July thirtieth, Ozzy Osbourne was laid to relaxation. His funeral cortege handed Ozzy‘s childhood house, the Black Sabbath Bridge, the Black Sabbath mural, and the venue The Crown, earlier than bringing the Prince of Darkness to his closing resting place in Welders Home. It is estimated that over tens of hundreds of individuals attended Ozzy‘s closing journey round Birmingham, with singing and brass bands paying tribute to the beloved metallic icon.
On July thirty first, the Osbournes had a personal funeral with shut family and friends in attendance on the household’s house in Buckinghamshire, England, the place Ozzy requested to be buried, together with his Black Sabbath bandmates, Zakk Wylde, Corey Taylor, Elton John, and Yungblud reportedly invited to the ceremony. Loudwire studies about 110 folks in complete attended the personal funeral.
It’s now August 2nd, the primary August with out Ozzy Osbourne since 1948. And it feels fairly bizarre.
There isn’t any phrase as as to whether or not Ozzy‘s memoir will go forward as deliberate, however there was affirmation that Again To The Starting had been filmed for a Paramount+ particular about Ozzy‘s life within the final three years, which is because of premiere on the streaming platform in late 2025.
So, Ozzy will nonetheless be right here. He at all times will probably be – he will probably be in each reminiscence his buddies maintain, in each photograph and video ever captured of him, in every tune metallic bands write… hell, his mentee Yungblud vows to play his cowl of “Modifications” each present for the remainder of his life.
So, yeah, we’re with out Ozzy now. However he won’t ever be gone.
Ozzy Osbourne Eternally.
You possibly can pre-order Ozzy Osbourne‘s final memoir right here.
You possibly can stream, and buy, Yungblud‘s reside cowl of Black Sabbath‘s “Modifications” right here, with all proceeds going to charity.
You could find the stream of Ozzy Osbourne‘s funeral procession all through Birmingham right here, if you would like to pay your respects.
And you too can pay tribute to Ozzy by persevering with to like, and assist, metallic music, simply as a lot as he did.
