{"id":618087,"date":"2026-09-16T18:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/618087\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T18:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:12:09","slug":"ozzy-osbourne-black-sabbaths-final-concert-headed-to-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/618087\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath’s Final Concert Headed to Big Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOzzy Osbourne<\/a>\u2018s emotional goodbye to his fans will be the subject of the upcoming concert film<\/a> Back to the Beginning, which will hit movie theaters beginning on Oct. 28. Osbourne headlined the star-studded Back to the Beginning concert<\/a>, performing a solo set and one with the original lineup of Black Sabbath<\/a>, in his hometown of Birmingham, England last July less than three weeks before his death<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tTickets for screenings go on sale at 10 a.m. ET on Sept. 24. Full details are on the Back to the Beginning website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBack to the Beginning came about because I asked Ozzy what would really make him happy,\u201d Sharon Osbourne, Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s wife and manager, said in a statement. \u201cAnd he said the only thing that would make him happy was if he could perform again and say goodbye to his fans. That\u2019s all he wanted to do. He wanted to say goodbye and thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe day-long concert at Birmingham\u2019s Villa Park stadium featured performances by Metallica, Guns N\u2019 Roses<\/a>, Slayer, Pantera, Anthrax, Halestorm, Yungblud, and many others. The music director for the concert was Rage Against the Machine\u2019s Tom Morello, who commented in a statement that \u201cthere\u2019s never been a precedent for a show like this.\u201d It all led up to Osbourne\u2019s solo set and four songs by Black Sabbath.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was a closure for the band, and it was a good way to go out, I think,\u201d Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTo me it was like pure love,\u201d the band\u2019s bassist, Geezer Butler, said. \u201cIt was just a wave of love. It\u2019s the only way I can describe it really. I mean I could feel it as if it is like tangible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c[I] felt completely at home in a place where I belong,\u201d drummer Bill Ward said. \u201cIt almost felt like I was in a dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tFilmmaker Ben Wainwright-Pearce, whose credits include Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour and George Michael: The Faith Tour, directed the concert film. The live concert footage, which was livestreamed during the concert<\/a>, was directed by Tim van Someren. The movie presentation will feature Dolby Atmos and 5.1 surround sound to bring the stadium feel of the performance to the big screen.<\/p>\n

\n\tRolling Stone praised the original concert in a review<\/a>. \u201cFor all the false farewells and goodbyes in his career, there was something so final about this one that added a crushing poignancy to the night,\u201d the magazine said. \u201cThe great tragedy is that so often such legends die before celebrations on this level can take place, yet by some great miracle or divine intervention Ozzy Osbourne was here to take his final bow with his own tribe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ozzy Osbourne\u2018s emotional goodbye to his fans will be the subject of the upcoming concert film Back to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5873,146,85,46,409,5521],"class_list":["post-618087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-black-sabbath","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-ozzy-osbourne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}