“This is his full stop”

Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath come together one last time to play a donation concert in Birmingham on July 5.

The heavy metal pioneers will lead a spectacular one-day festival with dozens of bands that inspired them, including Metallica, Pantera, Slayer, Gojira and Anthrax.

The concert marks the first time that Black Sabbath’s original line -up – Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward – have played together for 20 years.

Osbourne, which was largely forced to end a short solo set due to a combination of Parkinson’s and spine injuries before he complies with its bandmates.

His wife Sharon said BBC News that he was determined to organize one last show.

“He’s fine. He’s really great,” she said. “He is so excited about it with the boys and all his friends again. It is exciting for everyone.”

However, she said that the concert would definitely be the last show of the 76-year-old.

“Ozzy had no chance of saying goodbye to his fans from his friends, and he has the feeling that there was no full stop.

“This is his full stop.”

The concert, which was made back until the beginning, was announced on Wednesday in Villa Park by Sharon and Tony Iommi by Black Sabbath.

Anger against the machine guitarist Tom Morello, who acts as the music director of the event, said it was “the largest heavy metal show ever”.

The proceeds from the show support Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and the Acorn Children’s Hospice, a children’s hospice supported by Aston Villa.

Further acts on the line -up are Alice in chains, halenorm, lamb of God and mastodon.

In addition, the concert will contain a “super group” with stars such as Billy Corgan, Slash, Fred Durst, Wolfgang van Halen and Tom Morello.

“It’s an endless number of people,” said Sharon Osbourne. “You will make some Sabbat songs, some Ozzy songs, and they will all mix.

“Different small groups will arrive, but they are all icons.”

The black Sabbath was founded in 1968 and held her first rehearsal in the Newtown Community Center, a stone’s throw from Villa Park.

Before that, they played a farewell show for a sold -out audience of 16,000 people in the city of the city in 2017.

The set consisted mainly of songs from their early days -including war pigs, NIB and black Sabbath -before they were finished with their breakthrough -hit and signature song paranoid.

The concert came at the end of an extensive 81-day world tour, and Osbourne thanked the fans for their support for the band’s career.

“I have to tell you something what kind of trip we all had,” he said.

“We started in 1968 and now it is in 2017 – I don’t think so, man. But do you know what? We wouldn’t survive if it wasn’t the fan base. If you are an experienced fan, great, great.

After this concert, Osbourne published two solo albums – ordinary man and patient number 9. However, in 2003 he suffered an vertebral violation after an accident with an ATV, which was tightened in 2019 by a late next fall, in which several rounds of large operations were required.

He revealed his Parkinson’s diagnosis in 2020 and largely resigned from the tour after playing the Commonwealth Games graduation ceremony in 2022.

However, He recently told Rolling Stone UK From his wish to return to the stage.

“I’ll take it one day after the other and if I can reappear, I will do it,” he said. “But it was like saying goodbye to the best relationship of my life.”

He added: “I will not get up there and do a half -hearted Ozzy looking for sympathy. What is the (expedant) point in it? I don’t go up there in an (expantive) wheelchair.”