Music Biggest Fear of Ozzy with his farewell show with Black Sabbath

On July 5, the original formation of the Black Sabbath will have your farewell to a show as part of the megafestival Back to the beginningin Birmingham, England. The group vocalist, Ozzy Osbournewill also perform for the last time in solo career.

Virtually no one on networks has made any complaints about the initiative. Still, the singer has a very specific fear linked to the possible reaction of the public.

In an interview with The GuardianOsbourne has shown to be worried about fans, perhaps, they were wrong to buy tickets for the event. As much as a solo show of the singer and another of Black Sabbath has been promised, the audience will give only small performances – “samples,” as the one set itself – as health problems make it impossible for a complete set.

Ozzy, who was diagnosed with Parkinson and has serious spinal problems, says:

“Let’s just play a few songs each. I don’t want people to think, ‘We’re being deceived,’ because it will be just … What’s the word? A ‘sample’. You’ll get some songs from Ozzy and Sabbath.”

Sammy Hagarformer singer of Van Halen And one of several festival guests came to advance in an interview that Osbourne intends to sing five songs. It is not known whether this is the amount of your solo show or two performances, including Black Sabbath.

Concern about negative public reactions is such that the guitarist Tony Iommi I didn’t even want the festival to happen. Also to The Guardianthe only musician to participate in all Black Sabbath formations recalled that the band has already done a farewell tour between 2016 and 2017. At the time, however, the original formation was embezzled: the drummer’s vacancy Bill Ward had been occupied by the contractor Tommy Clube.

Iommi says:

“I was the one who said, ‘I don’t know if we should do that,’ because we did a farewell tour and I didn’t want to get into this thing like all the other bands are doing, saying it’s the last tour and then reappearing. But I convinced myself, because we’re doing it for a reason.

The reason cited by Tony is a charity. The entire profit of the event will be destined to three charity institutions:

• Cure Parkinson’sEnglish entity that finances research aiming to cure, interrupt or reduce the evolution of Parkinson;
• Birmingham Children’s HospitalMedical Center in Birmingham specializing in taking care of children and adolescents;
• AHREN CHILDREN’S HOSPICEinstitution that provides palliative care and support to children with serious health problems and their families throughout the West Midlands region.

Farewell show with megafestival

The vocalist Ozzy Osbournethe guitarist Tony Iommithe bassist Geezer Butler and the drummer Bill Ward It will go to the stage together for the last time at a charity festival, with a series of artists and metal bands. See below the list of attractions:

• Black Sabbath
• Ozzy Osbourne (solo)
• Metallic
• Guns n ‘Roses
• Tool
• Slayer
• Panther
• Gojira
• Alice in Chains
• Halestorm
• LAMB OF GOD
• Anthrax
• Mastodon
• Rival sounds

Additional guests:

• Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins)
• David Draiman (Disturbed)
• DUFF MCKAGAN
• Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit)
• LZZY HALE
• Jake E. Lee
• Jonathan Davis (Korn)
• Kk Downing
• Mike Bordin (Faith no More)
• Pope V Perpetua (Ghost)
• Rudy Sarzo
• Sammy Hagar
• Slash
• Sleep Token II (Sleep token)
• Tom Morello
• Wolfgang van Halen

Goodbye to Black Sabbath

All original members of the Black Sabbath They have manifested themselves in recent months in favor of performing a last show of the band. The vocalist Ozzy Osbournethe guitarist Tony Iommithe bassist Geezer Butler and even the drummer Bill Wardleft out of the last meeting, a farewell came to Ward, as the final tour between 2016 and 2017 was held with Tommy Clube in its function.

Among all involved, Ozzy Osbourne It is the one who is most debilitated. The vocalist could not even sing during his recent tribute in the Rock and Roll Hall of Famein the last month of October.

Diagnosed with Parkinson, the 76 -year -old singer has his movements committed after a domestic fall suffered in 2019. Severe tumble promoted a worsening in his column, operated in 2003 due to a quadcicyclo accident. His farewell tour as a solo artist, At More Tours IIneeded to be canceled definitively.

Tony Iommi76, was diagnosed with a lymphoma in 2012. The treatment was successful and in 2016 he revealed that cancer is in remission, but it is under constant accompaniment. The retirement of the Sabbath It was motivated especially for your health, as constant trips affect your immunity.

Bill Wardalso 76, dealing with health issues since the 1990s. In 1998, he stopped participating in two shows Black Sabbath due to a heart attack. One of the reasons for being disregarded from the meeting announced in 2011 was the fact that it was out of shape, according to Osbourne. The singer said in a statement published in 2015 that his colleague was in the hospital several times in 2013 and had had a shoulder surgery. Already in 2017, he was hospitalized again with heart problems.

The only one to not deal with health problems, at least publicly, is Geezer Butler. However, the bassist some time announced his retirement from the world of music. Today, 75, he says he no longer has the disposition of other times for a fresh start – which had been tempted with the supergroup Deadland Ritual.

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