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Sharon Osbourne has revealed how much Ozzy and Black Sabbath‘s ‘Back To The Beginning’ final show actually raised for charity after much speculation.
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The star-studded show went down at Villa Park in Birmingham back in July, and the event took on extra poignancy when Ozzy passed away less than three weeks later.
In the days following the show, its musical director, the Rage Against The Machine legend Tom Morello, announced on Instagram that it had raised “more than $190million”, which would be split equally between Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Acorn Children’s Hospice.
However, a spokesperson from LiveNation told NME at the time: “Reported charity figures around ‘Back To The Beginning’ are not a true reflection and are indeed false. Ozzy and Sharon, in due course, will announce correct figures.”
Later, in an interview with Pollstar, Sharon had also distanced herself from those numbers. “I’m really happy that we are talking, because one of the things that’s frightening me is all this false press about [how] we’ve made $140 million and all of this, and I’m like, ‘God, I wish we could have, for one gig,’” she said.
In the first episode of The Osbournes podcast the family have filmed since her late-husband’s passing, Sharon clarified the figure.
“If one show could have raised – I mean, [the media reported] it was up to, like $190million. It’s, like, any artist, just do one big show, film it and you can retire just on one show. No, it was nowhere near, and I wish that it was, but we are living in reality, in the real world.”
When her son Jack Osbourne asked her how much money it had generated, she said it was around $11million,
‘Back to the Beginning’ marked the first time that the full classic line-up of Sabbath – Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward – had played together since 2005. They played a streamlined four-song set of their classic songs, with Ozzy telling the live crowd: “It’s the last song ever. Your support has enabled us to live an amazing lifestyle, thank you from the bottom of our hearts.”
Touching on the generosity of Ozzy’s peers, Sharon went on to say “We paid the cost of bringing everybody in, everybody out, accommodation, everything. No one got paid. Nobody asked for a penny. They gave their time, their efforts, everything for free. People were just, oh God, so generous.”
More recently, Sharon has implored Sabbath’s first manager not to release an album of the band’s earliest recordings.
In June, it was announced that a compilation of demos that Ozzy, Iommi, Butler and Ward recorded in 1969 when they still went by the name Earth was to be released under the title ‘Earth: The Legendary Lost Tapes’, and as it stands, it had not yet been released.
In other news, the Osbourne family recently revealed that both Donald Trump and King Charles reached out to them after Ozzy’s death in July.
They also revealed that Ozzy was secretly hospitalised just two weeks before his final concert. While he had struggled with a number of medical conditions over the years– including Parkinson’s Disease – Jack shared that “things started getting worse” in the first week of December 2024, when Ozzy “took a little fall”.
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