{"id":67807,"date":"2025-08-14T14:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67807\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T14:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:13:08","slug":"robert-plant-reveals-why-he-turned-down-invitation-to-black-sabbaths-farewell-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67807\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Plant Reveals Why He Turned Down Invitation to Black Sabbath’s Farewell Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Plant Reveals Why He Turned Down Invitation to Black Sabbath’s Farewell Show<\/a> originally appeared on Parade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tony Iommi invited Robert Plant to attend Black Sabbath’s farewell show, and the Led Zeppelin legend recently revealed why he turned down the invitation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, Tony, I\u2019d love to come, but I can\u2019t come,\u201d Plant, 76, told Mojo<\/a> about the historic concert in an interview published on Tuesday, August 12. \u201cI just can\u2019t. I\u2019m not saying that I\u2019d rather hang out with Peter Gabriel or Youssou N\u2019Dour, but I don\u2019t know anything about what\u2019s going on in that world now, at all. I don\u2019t decry it, I\u2019ve got nothing against it. It\u2019s just I found these other places that are so rich.\u201d<\/p>\n

The concert was titled “Back to the Beginning” and was held at Villa Park in Aston, Birmingham, England, on July 5. Approximately 40,000 people attended<\/a> in person, while roughly 5 million watched the event via livestream.<\/p>\n

Not only did the concert mark the last time that original Black Sabbath members<\/a> Iommi, 77, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward performed together, but it was also Osbourne’s final show<\/a> before he died on July 22 at the age of 76 following a cardiac arrest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Parade Daily\ud83c\udfac\u00a0SIGN UP for Parade\u2019s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox<\/a>\u00a0\ud83c\udfac<\/p>\n

Also during the interview, Plant shared his current perspective on gigging. \u201cFor me, because I\u2019ve been from a very questionable Live Aid to the O2, to Obama and the White House and all those things, I was beatified. I felt the tug of doing this \u2014 Saving Grace needed just to move on up in glory, as Mavis [Staples] would say. We\u2019ve got to be very careful now that we make sure it stays closer to Bert Jansch than Axl Rose,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The gigs are small enough so that if nobody wants to go, it\u2019s not the end of the world. And so, by having that laissez-faire, easy-going, whatever it\u2019s called \u2014 suicidal! \u2014 attitude, instead of doing the football stadium with some old mates, there it was: we were free,” the artist continued. “We could mess about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robert Plant Reveals Why He Turned Down Invitation to Black Sabbath’s Farewell Show<\/a> first appeared on Parade on Aug 13, 2025<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Parade<\/a> on Aug 13, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Plant Reveals Why He Turned Down Invitation to Black Sabbath’s Farewell Show originally appeared on Parade. Tony…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,53865,136,6815,53866,27919,39433,53864],"class_list":{"0":"post-67807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-geezer-butler","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-ozzy-osbourne","14":"tag-peter-gabriel","15":"tag-robert-plant","16":"tag-tony-iommi","17":"tag-youssou-ndour"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}