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“The greatest heavy metal show ever!”: Ozzy Osbourne reunites Black Sabbath’s original line-up for a final show in Birmingham

Metallica and Pantera will also appear at the Villa Park event

MusicRadar

‘The greatest heavy metal show ever’? Original Black Sabbath lineup to reunite for Ozzy Osbourne’s final concert

Epic lineup convenes for farewell to heavy metal icon at Birmingham’s Villa Park stadium in July, with Metallica, Slayer, Pantera and many more in support

The Guardian - UK

Black Sabbath to reunite to play final show at blockbuster Birmingham event this summer, with Metallica, Slayer, Gojira, Anthrax and many other metal icons supporting

Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning extravaganza will take place at Villa Park on July 5

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'The greatest metal show ever': Ozzy Osbourne to reunite with Black Sabbath for his final bow

Legendary rock artist lives up to his promise to play one final show

The Independent UK

Black Sabbath are back! Ozzy Osbourne to reunite with original line-up for his final show

The singer will play his own short set before the veteran heavy metal band play together for the first time in 20 years

Evening Standard

“The joke has always been, ‘Zakk, are you from the South?’ And I say, ‘Yeah, South Jersey! Down near the shore, bro!’”: Why Zakk Wylde swapped Black Label Society and metal for southern rock on Book Of Shadows 2

Zakk Wylde’s love of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Neil Young knows no bounds

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Ozzy Osbourne ‘shocked’ as Birmingham votes to honour Black Sabbath

‘Proud Brummie’ singer excited as city decides he and band members should be given Freedom of Birmingham

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Ozzy Osbourne 'couldn't be happier' after receiving Freedom of Birmingham

The members of Black Sabbath are set to receive the Freedom of Birmingham.

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“Jimmy Page said, ‘If you want to go work straight away, do the Ozzy gig. If not, we’d love to have you’”: Phil Soussan is one of the ultimate bass journeymen – he looks back at his storied career, and why he picked Ozzy Osbourne over Jimmy Page

The Last in Line member recalls his weird experience of recording bass on The Ultimate Sin, what it was like being in the room for Zakk Wylde’s Ozzy audition, being frustrated with Vince Neil’s band, and his amazing chemistry with Steve Lukather

Guitar World

Black Sabbath to be bestowed with Birmingham's Freedom Of The City

Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward will be recgonised for their service to their hometown of Birmingham.

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“I’m still amazed to this day that no one outside of Birmingham can understand a word I say!” Founding Black Sabbath members to be awarded with Freedom Of The City honour by Birmingham City Council

The original lineup of Osbourne, Iommi, Butler and Ward will join just 50 others in being recognised as Freemen by the City Of Birmingham

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Council announces plans to honour Black Sabbath and Benjamin Zephaniah

A report recommends making each member of the rock band a Freeman of Birmingham, as well as giving a posthumous City of Birmingham Medal to the poet.

Evening Standard

“I only used the back pickup. Ozzy hates the sound of the front pickup. He calls it the ‘cow tone’”: Bursting with ideas but deferential to Ozzy Osbourne, a young Zakk Wylde had interesting guitar instructions upon joining the legendary frontman's band

Though not a guitarist himself, the Prince of Darkness had some very specific pet peeves that he related to Wylde when the guitarist was a newly-hired young gun

Guitar World

“No One Asked You”: Kelly Osbourne Slams Celebs For Using Wildfires As A “Photo Op”

"Using people’s pain as a photo op." Kelly Osbourne accused a number of celebrities of using the Los Angeles wildfires as an opportunity for self-promotion. Fans believe she was referring to Meghan and Harry. The post “No One Asked You”: Kelly Osbourne Slams Celebs For Using Wildfires As A “Photo…

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“When I joined, Ozzy told me I'd often hear people scream out Randy's name during a show”: Zakk Wylde discusses Ozzy Osbourne's hard-and-fast guitar rules, and the friendly shadows of Randy Rhoads and Jake E. Lee, in his first Guitar World interview

Not long into his dream gig, Wylde sat down with GW for a chat about his favorite guitarists of the era, and what Ozzy discouraged him from doing on the guitar

MusicRadar

“I don't think the term ‘Heavy Metal’ was used for Led Zeppelin”: So what was the first metal album to hit No 1 in the US?

Was it Randy Rhoads’ old band Quiet Riot that made history?

Louder

“We really weren’t compatible. It was kind of cool, but there was a lot left to be desired”: The singer who briefly replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath in 1977 – and then was forgotten

It was a short tenure – but they recorded at least one track together

Metal Hammer

“We were doing things that would have been beyond us with Ozzy. With Ronnie James Dio, there were so many more options”: How a reinvented Black Sabbath saved themselves from oblivion with Heaven And Hell

Heaven And Hell was the start of Black Sabbath’s short but glorious second chapter

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“A great motivation at a time when I didn’t really know what to do next”: Testament guitarist Alex Skolnick remembers playing sole gig with Ozzy Osbourne

Skolnick played one concert with The Prince Of Darkness in June 1995 before being ushered out the door by management

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“If it wasn’t working, I could see the point of changing. But we were more successful than ever. It was incomprehensible”: The tumultuous story of Sepultura’s Roots album and their bitter split

How Sepultura made their most important album – and how it tore them apart

Digital Camera World

"I was setting everything up for a cover with Slash and Ozzy Osbourne, and Slash walked into the studio, saw me, and went, ‘Oh, it’s you!’ – I remember thinking ‘Slash knows me. Slash knows me!’"

Paul Harries, rock star photographer, tells me how he got to photograph artists like Dua Lipa, Ozzy Osbourne and Slipknot

Metal Hammer

“I go to church every Sunday when I’m home. Especially now I’ve replaced the booze with glue”: From GN’R and Pantera to Ozzy Osbourne and God, Zakk Wylde is the most connected man in rock

It’s Zakk Wylde’s world - we just live in it

Guitar World

“The message said, ‘This is Sharon Osbourne. Me and Ozzy have been checking you out, and we really love your guitar playing. We want you to audition’”: That time one of the fastest shredders in guitar history auditioned to join Ozzy Osbourne’s band

When the Osbourne camp began searching for Jake E. Lee’s replacement, a neo-classical speed shredder featured high up on their list

MusicRadar

“Everybody clap your hands and boogie!”: Watch the young Ozzy Osbourne raising hell in newly unearthed Black Sabbath live footage from 1976

30 minutes of head-banging action to enjoy

Metal Hammer

Watch Sid WIlson and Kelly Osbourne's son Sidney in adorable backstage moment with masked-up Slipknot

Little Sidney Wilson joins Slipknot's backstage bonding ritual – and it's the cutest thing you'll see today

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