Black Sabbath final show to be streamed, band kicked off bill

THINGS are hotting up as we close in on three weeks until Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne bid us farewell at Vila Park in Birmingham.

Unofficial ticket resellers have the cheapest tickets at just under A$2000 but that might go down with the news the event is to be streamed and made available for replay at a cost of around A$40 – with the money going to three charities.

But it won’t be live streamed – there will be a two hour delay on what is shaping more as a tribute show with appearances from Guns N’Roses, Metallica, Slayer, Alice In Chains, Tool, Sammy Hagar, Wolfgang Van Halen and many, many  more.

Someone who is advertised as appearing – we don’t know who – won’t be setting foot inside the soccer stadium, however.

“I had a huge, huge to-do with a manager over this celebration for Ozzy and Sabbath,” Osbourne’s wife and manager Sharon told Metal Hammer.

“And it was probably the worst way I’ve felt in years. And I don’t care what this person says about me, thinks about it, because he doesn’t know me. And he’s now going around making up bullshit lies because I threw his band off the bill.

“I don’t care what people say. Because do you know what? I don’t love them. I care about people who love me, what they say about me. You can’t care what an industry says, because you don’t love them, so how can it hurt you? It doesn’t.”