{"id":643953,"date":"2026-10-28T16:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T16:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/643953\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T16:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T16:52:09","slug":"ozzy-osbournes-final-show-back-to-the-beginning-to-be-immortalised-as-live-album-cd-and-blu-ray-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/643953\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s final show Back To The Beginning to be immortalised as live album, CD and Blu-ray in December"},"content":{"rendered":"

the Prince Of Darkness\u2019s final performance<\/a> has been announced.<\/p>\n

On December 11, producers Mercury Studios will put out box-sets immortalising the all-day show at Birmingham\u2019s Villa Park, which took place on July 5, 2025: 17 days before Ozzy<\/a> died of a heart attack aged 76.<\/p>\n

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Blu-ray\/CD and Blu-ray\/2LP bundles are available, each containing the 147-minute film in its entirety, plus the full sets from Black Sabbath<\/a> and Ozzy\u2019s solo band. Pre-orders are now live.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The releases also include such bonus features as video tributes to Ozzy, guest performances of Jack Black singing Ozzy\u2019s Mr Crowley and Limp Bizkit\u2019s Fred Durst singing Sabbath\u2019s Changes, a behind-the-scenes featurette and a documentary about Ozzy\u2019s hometown, Sounds Of Birmingham.<\/p>\n

A digital live soundtrack featuring the Sabbath and Ozzy sets will come out on December 11, as well.<\/p>\n

A deluxe box-set, featuring every Sabbath and Ozzy cover from the 35 artists who took the stage, will come out in April. The expansive collection includes three Blu-ray discs, two CDs, three LPs and a 72-page hardback book. Pre-orders for this are also now live.<\/p>\n

First announced in February 2025, Back To The Beginning was the most star-studded gig in heavy metal<\/a> history, featuring sets from Metallica<\/a>, Guns N\u2019 Roses, Tool, Gojira, Mastodon and many more. It marked the original Black Sabbath lineup\u2019s first time onstage together since 2005.<\/p>\n

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The not-for-profit event was live-streamed by more than five million people around the world and raised an estimated combined total of \u00a36\u2013\u00a37 million for the charities Birmingham Children\u2019s Hospital, Acorns Children\u2019s Hospice and Cure Parkinson\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter On the same…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-643953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}