heavy metal<\/a> pioneers\u2019 first time onstage since 2017, and their first performance to feature all four founding members since 2005 \u2013 and a set by Ozzy\u2019s solo band, Back To The Beginning featured short slots from Metallica, Tool, Guns N\u2019 Roses, Gojira and many others, who performed both original material and Sabbath and Ozzy covers.<\/p>\nThere were also supergroups featuring Tom Morello, Billy Corgan, Tobias Forge, Yungblud, Sleep Token\u2019s II and many others, who performed renditions of Sabbath and Ozzy hits. The cover of Changes by Yungblud, II, Frank Bello, Adam Wakeman and Nuno Bettencourt, which won the Best Rock Performance trophy at the 68th Grammy Award in February, will be among the songs making the cut.<\/p>\n
Announced in early 2025, Back To The Beginning was put together as Ozzy\u2019s final bow, following his retirement from touring in 2023 due to Parkinson\u2019s disease and other health issues. The show was held a short distance from where the singer grew up in Aston, with proceeds going to local charities Cure Parkinson\u2019s, the Birmingham Children\u2019s Hospital Charity and Acorns Children\u2019s Hospice.<\/p>\n
The show was Sabbath\u2019s first since the end of their farewell tour, The End, in 2017. Although Ozzy, guitarist Tony Iommi and bassist Geezer Butler took part in that tour, founding drummer Bill Ward didn\u2019t, due to a contractual dispute ahead of the band\u2019s 2012 reunion and the recording of the band\u2019s final album, 2013\u2019s 13.<\/p>\n
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The 44,000 tickets to Back To The Beginning quickly sold out upon release, and a livestream of the event was watched by more than five million people. An estimated $11 million US (\u00a38,323,425) was raised for charity.<\/p>\n
Ozzy died on July 22, 2025, just over two weeks after Back To The Beginning, following a heart attack at his Buckinghamshire home aged 76. Geezer Butler wrote in trouble after the news broke: \u201cFour kids from Aston \u2013 who\u2019d have thought, eh? So glad we got to do it one last time, back in Aston. Love you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Villa Park will be the site of the first edition of Ozzfest, the festival co-founded by Ozzy and his wife\/manager Sharon in 1996, since 2018 next year. A US edition of the festival is also in the works.<\/p>\n
Songs appearing in Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back To The BeginningOzzy Osbourne \u2013 I Don\u2019t KnowMastodon \u2013 SupernautRival Sons \u2013 Electric FuneralAnthrax \u2013 Into The VoidHalestorm \u2013 Perry MasonTool \u2013 Hand Of DoomOzzy Osbourne \u2013 Mr CrowleyTom Morello\u2019s All Stars feat. David Draiman, Jake E. Lee, David Ellefson, Mike Bordin, Adam Wakeman \u2013 Shot In The DarkTom Morello\u2019s All Stars feat. Whitfield Crane, Scott Ian, Nuno Bettencourt, Frank Bello, II (Sleep Token), Adam Wakeman \u2013 BelieverTom Morello\u2019s All Stars feat. Yungblud, Nuno Bettencourt, Frank Bello, II (Sleep Token), Adam Wakeman \u2013 ChangesLamb Of God \u2013 Children Of The GraveAlice In Chains \u2013 Fairies Wear BootsGojira \u2013 Under The SunPantera \u2013 Electric FuneralSlayer \u2013 Wicked WorldOzzy Osbourne \u2013 Suicide SolutionTom Morello\u2019s All Stars feat. Travis Barker, Danny Carey, Chad Smith, Tom Morello, Nuno Bettencourt, Rudy Sarzo \u2013 Symptom Of The UniverseTom Morello\u2019s All Stars feat. Billy Corgan, Tom Morello, K.K. Downing, Adam Jones, Rudy Sarzo, Danny Carey \u2013 SnowblindTom Morello\u2019s All Stars feat. Sammy Hagar, Nuno Bettencourt, Adam Wakeman, Rudy Sarzo, Chad Smith, Vernon Reid \u2013 Flying High AgainTom Morello\u2019s All Stars feat. Papa V Perpetua, Vernon Reid, Nuno Bettencourt, Adam Wakeman, Rudy Sarzo, Travis Barker \u2013 Bark At The MoonTom Morello\u2019s All Stars Ft Steven Tyler, Ronnie Wood, Nuno Bettencourt, Tom Morello, Andrew Watt, Rudy Sarzo, Travis Barker \u2013 The Train Kept A-Rollin\u2019Tom Morello\u2019s All Stars feat. Steven Tyler, Nuno Bettencourt, Tom Morello, Andrew Watt, Rudy Sarzo, Chad Smith \u2013 Walk This WayGuns \u2019N\u2019 Roses \u2013 Never Say DieMetallica \u2013 Hole In The SkyOzzy Osbourne \u2013 Crazy TrainBlack Sabbath \u2013 War PigsBlack Sabbath \u2013 N.I.B.Black Sabbath \u2013 Iron ManBlack Sabbath \u2013 ParanoidOzzy Osbourne \u2013 Mama I\u2019m Coming Home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trailer for the concert film Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back To The Beginning has been released. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-781432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781432","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=781432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}