‘I’m just the singer’: Liam Gallagher reacts to fans questioning him about Ticketmaster Oasis frontman seemed irked by fans asking him about Ticketmaster cancelling their tickets to the reunion shows The Independent UK · Feb 12, 2025
Fans scramble to get tickets for ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ Black Sabbath gig Ticketmaster said ‘there were no issues’ on its website. Evening Standard · Feb 11, 2025
Black Sabbath fans gobsmacked at ‘insane’ ticket prices for Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell show Ozzy Osbourne is performing his farewell show with the band’s original lineup, backed by bands including Metallica, Slayer and Lamb of God The Independent UK · Feb 11, 2025
Sharon Osbourne explains how Black Sabbath’s original members reunited ahead of farewell show: “When they heard it was for charity, it was easy” Ozzy Osbourne’s wife/manager says that it was The Prince Of Darkness himself spearheading efforts for the band’s classic lineup to play together again Metal Hammer · Feb 10, 2025
Ozzy Osbourne 'overwhelmed' by response to Black Sabbath gig Ozzy Osbourne felt "overwhelmed" by the response from his friends in the music industry who have all offered to come together to join his huge Black Sabbath reunion gig in the summer. BANG Premier · Feb 10, 2025
Ozzy Osbourne admits he 'can't walk' as he prepares for final Black Sabbath show Ozzy Osbourne has admitted he "can't walk" as he prepares for his final Black Sabbath show but is happy to be "still alive". BANG Premier · Feb 7, 2025
“There was a forty-foot cliff and I’d dived off it into the ocean. Apparently I’d said it was a good day to fly!”: The day that Ozzy Osbourne could have killed himself And he didn’t remember a thing about it! MusicRadar · Feb 6, 2025
“Tom Morello is going to play with the drummer from Tool and they’re going to have Billy Corgan with them”: Sharon Osbourne spills details on running order for Black Sabbath’s farewell show “You’re going to see one icon playing with another icon, doing a Sabbath song and one or two of their own songs, and people playing with each other that you never thought you’d see” Metal Hammer · Feb 6, 2025
Ozzy Osbourne admits he 'can’t walk' as he prepares for final Black Sabbath performance On Wednesday, the legendary rock band announced that their farewell show with Osbourne as frontman will take place this summer Evening Standard · Feb 6, 2025
Black Sabbath albums ranked, from worst to best Some Black Sabbath albums are epoch-defining classics, some are average, some downright embarrassing, and we've ranked them – from woeful worst to brilliant best Metal Hammer · Feb 6, 2025
Ozzy Osbourne to reunite with Black Sabbath bandmates in Birmingham for 'greatest' show ever Ozzy Osbourne will reunite with all of the original members of Black Sabbath for the first time in 20 years, in a gig that will be his last and that’s being billed as the “greatest” heavy metal show ever The Independent UK · Feb 5, 2025
“This will be the greatest heavy metal show ever”: Ozzy Osbourne announces his final-ever live performance – featuring an original Black Sabbath lineup reunion and some of the biggest names in heavy music Osbourne will be returning this summer for his final show, and is sharing the history-making bill with Metallica, Pantera, Slayer, Anthrax and many, many more Guitar World · Feb 5, 2025
“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 · Feb 5, 2025
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 Metal Hammer · Feb 5, 2025
The Independent UK · Feb 5, 2025 '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
Evening Standard · Feb 5, 2025 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
Metal Hammer · Feb 2, 2025 “It had a 13-minute spoken-word black mass on the B-side”: The mysterious late 60s album that Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt says invented Satanic rock Six months before Black Sabbath released their landmark debut album, another band were praising Satan
The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2025 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
BANG Premier · Jan 28, 2025 Ozzy Osbourne 'couldn't be happier' after receiving Freedom of Birmingham The members of Black Sabbath are set to receive the Freedom of Birmingham.
Metal Hammer · Jan 22, 2025 “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
Evening Standard · Jan 21, 2025 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.
Metal Hammer · Jan 17, 2025 “Iron Maiden’s tough, because it’s a very different vibe between Killers and Number Of The Beast”: Slayer’s Kerry King names his five perfect metal albums Classics by Judas Priest, Metallica, Black Sabbath and more all make the cut
Guitar World · Jan 14, 2025 “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
Louder · Jan 12, 2025 "I knew things weren’t going well musically": The story of the singer who replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath in 1977 – and was then forgotten The story of the short-lived union between Black Sabbath and a former singer of Fleetwood Mac
Metal Hammer · Jan 9, 2025 "Snoop Dogg said he’d had over a billion streams and made less than $43,000 – that should scare the **** out of everyone." Ice-T on Body Count, dream collabs and more Ice-T reflects on the rage behind Cop Killer, the best rap and metal albums and dream collabs as he answers your questions