Sharon Osbourne has admitted that she was forced to remove a band from Back to the Beginning, a rock music event which will include husband Ozzy’s farewell gig with Black Sabbath
Sharon Osbourne has made a seriously bold move regarding Ozzy’s farewell concert.
The former X Factor judge has axed a band from the lineup of Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning concert after a heated dispute with their manager.
The identity of the dropped band remains unknown, but the row has left Sharon fuming. The charity concert is set to take place on July 5 at Birmingham’s Villa Park.
In an interview with Metal Hammer, Sharon revealed: “I had a huge, huge to-do with a manager over this celebration for Ozzy and Sabbath and it was probably the worst way I’ve felt in years.”
“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 b******* lies because I threw his band off the bill,” reports the Mirror.
Sharon continued: “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.”
The concert will still feature an impressive lineup, including Metallica, Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, Duff McKagan and Slash of Guns ‘N Roses, Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst, Korn star Jonathan Davis, Anthrax, and Wolfgang Van Halen.
Ozzy’s highly anticipated concert will mark his last performance after being plagued by health issues and he has recently opened up about the strain of preparing for the event.
In an interview on the ‘Ozzy Speaks’ podcast on SiriusXM, he confessed: “All I can say is I’m giving 120 percent. If my God wants me to do the show, I’ll do it.”
The sold-out performance at Villa Park will be Ozzy’s first live show since 2018 and comes after a series of health setbacks, including his 2020 public diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease.
He further shared on his podcast the mental anguish he faces in preparing to return to the stage: “My head’s crazy. ADHD – I have that badly. I will have done the show and died a death before I even started my exercises. So I try and put it on the back burner. I’m not going up there saying, ‘It’s going to be great. I’m really confident.'”.
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