Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne. Sharon Osbourne announced that one band has been removed from the lineup of the upcoming “Back to the Beginning” concert set to take place on July 5, 2025 in Birmingham, England.(AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
Less than a month out from the sold-out final performance of the original members of Black Sabbath, drama is brewing in the land of Ozzy Osbourne.
Fans are eagerly seeking clues as to which band was reportedly removed from the concert by Osbourne’s wife and manager, Sharon Osbourne.
“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,” she said during a wide-ranging interview with Metal Hammer. “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 b——- 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,” she went on to say. “You can’t care what an industry says, because you don’t love them, so how can it hurt you? It doesn’t.”
It remains undisclosed which band was dropped from the historic concert’s lineup. Rumors initially pointed to progressive metal heroes Tool, as the band had reportedly been scrubbed from the concert’s website. However, this has since proven untrue, and the mystery continues.
Fans await further details as they prepare to attend ‘Back to the Beginning’ on July 5 at Villa Park in Birmingham, England, where “The Ozzman” and his original Black Sabbath bandmates, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward, are set to take the stage.
Sabbath will be joined by Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Gojira, Halestorm, Alice in Chains, Lamb of God, Anthrax and Mastodon.
Guns N’ Roses’ Slash, Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, Korn’s Jonathan Davis, Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst, Wolfgang Van Halen and Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello are also set to form a super-band for the concert, which reportedly sold out in 16 minutes this past February.
Osbourne, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2019, a condition which has since affected his ability to walk, previously stated that while he doesn’t intend to perform a full Black Sabbath set, he does plan on doing ‘little bits and pieces’ with the group as he feels ‘comfortable.’
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