{"id":53734,"date":"2025-08-08T23:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/53734\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T23:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:07:09","slug":"sharon-osbourne-debunks-ridiculous-claim-that-final-black-sabbath-show-raised-190million-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/53734\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Osbourne debunks \u201cridiculous\u201d claim that final Black Sabbath show raised $190million for charity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sharon Osbourne has refuted the \u201cridiculous\u201d claim that the farewell Black Sabbath<\/a> concert raised $190million for charity.<\/p>\n

The star-studded \u2018Back To The Beginning\u2019 show went down at Villa Park in Birmingham on July 5<\/a>, an event that took on extra poignancy when Ozzy Osbourne passed away less than three months later (July 22)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the days following the show, its musical director, the Rage Against The Machine<\/a> legend Tom Morello<\/a>, announced on Instagram that it had raised \u201cmore than $190million\u201d<\/a>, which would be split equally between Cure Parkinson\u2019s, Birmingham Children\u2019s Hospital and Acorn Children\u2019s Hospice.<\/p>\n

In a new interview with Pollstar<\/a>, which was conducted a few days before Ozzy\u2019s death, Sharon Osbourne has distanced herself from the reported numbers.<\/p>\n

\"OzzyOzzy Osbourne at \u2018Back To The Beginning\u2019. CREDIT: Ross Halfin<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really happy that we are talking, because one of the things that\u2019s frightening me is all this false press about [how] we\u2019ve made $140 million and all of this, and I\u2019m like, \u2018God, I wish we could have, for one gig,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just ridiculous, the different stories. I went on the internet the next morning and it was like, $140 million, $160 million. And I\u2019m like, \u2018Where does this stuff come from?\u2019 And people like\u00a0Billboard\u00a0have printed it.\u201d<\/p>\n

When it was pointed out to her that the reported number was actually $190 million, she replied: \u201cOh, $190 million? Thank you,\u00a0Billboard, for getting it wrong. Just ridiculous. It takes a really long time [to calculate], because we\u2019ve had all of the bands that we had come in and their expenses, and it\u2019ll take a good six weeks to get the final number. Because we\u2019re selling merch for another two weeks from the gig. So, we\u2019ve got another two weeks of sales yet to add to it. It\u2019ll be another four weeks and it\u2019ll be done.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the same interview, Sharon revealed that Ozzy told her he was overwhelmed by the outpouring of love at the farewell show<\/a>. \u201cHe turned around and he said to me that night, \u2018I had no idea that so many people liked me\u2019. Ozzy\u2019s always been in his own bubble,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor Ozzy to play with Bill [Ward] again, he was very, very emotional about that. It was a huge success, because it was a phenomenal event. It was the first time, I think, that anybody\u2019s gone into retirement and done it, where the show is streamed and it goes to charity. So it\u2019s the first time anybody has said goodnight like that, it\u2019s the perfect way, when you\u2019ve had such a long career, to end it.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the first time that the full classic lineup of Sabbath \u2013 Osbourne, guitarist\u00a0Tony Iommi<\/a>, bassist\u00a0Geezer Butler<\/a> and drummer Bill Ward \u2013 had played together since 2005. They played a streamlined four-song set of their classic songs<\/a>, with Ozzy telling the live crowd: \u201cIt\u2019s the last song ever. Your support has enabled us to live an amazing lifestyle, thank you from the bottom of our hearts.\u201d<\/p>\n

It has now been announced that a\u00a0documentary about Osbourne is also on the way<\/a>, which will share an \u201cintimate glimpse\u201d of his \u201clast chapter\u201d. Titled\u00a0Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, it will feature contributions from his family and was filmed across his final three years. It will air on BBC One and iPlayer on August 18.<\/p>\n

A biopic of Ozzy and Sharon\u2019s lives is also in the works at Sony Pictures<\/a>, with negotiations with a director ongoing.\u00a0The project was first announced in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sharon Osbourne has refuted the \u201cridiculous\u201d claim that the farewell Black Sabbath concert raised $190million for charity. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,5204,3584,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-53734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-metal","tag-rock","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}