Black Sabbath’s authentic lineup will reunite for the primary time in 20 years for a live performance billed as Ozzy Osbourne’s last-ever present. The Again to the Starting charity live performance, going down on Saturday, July 5, at Villa Park, within the band’s Birmingham hometown, will function a gargantuan rock lineup together with Metallica, Pantera, Slayer, and a supergroup of Billy Corgan, Slash, Fred Durst, Wolfgang Van Halen, and Tom Morello, who serves because the occasion’s musical director.
Filling out the principle invoice are: Gojira, Anthrax, Alice in Chains, Mastodon, Lamb of God, and Halestorm. Weapons N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan and Slash are additionally on the lineup. Osbourne will play a quick solo set earlier than being joined by the band, and a number of the supporting artists will play Sabbath and Ozzy solo songs, in line with Sharon Osbourne. Extra artists are nonetheless to be introduced.
Ozzy Osbourne said, “It’s my time to go Again to the Starting….time for me to offer again to the place the place I used to be born. How blessed am I to do it with the assistance of individuals whom I like. Birmingham is the true dwelling of metallic. Birmingham Ceaselessly.”
Morello added, “This would be the best heavy metallic present ever.”
Talking with BBC News, Sharon Osbourne stated her husband is “doing actually nice. He’s so enthusiastic about this, about being with the blokes once more and all his associates.” She continued, “Ozzy didn’t have an opportunity to say goodbye to his associates, to his followers, and he feels there’s no been no full cease. That is his full cease.”
All earnings will go to Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, and Acorn Children’s Hospice, in line with a press launch.
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