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Ozzy Osbourne is going to make Black Sabbath's final show as entertaining as possible, even if he's not very mobile. During a recent interview, his longtime guitarist Zakk Wylde revealed that the Prince of Darkness might be on a “throne that flies over the stadium” during the highly anticipated gig.
“The game plan is, let’s hope this is what happens, you always gotta stay on the bright side of life, because Oz was singing at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame thing,” he said in a new interview. “Ozzy was just sitting at the chair and he was singing ‘Mama, I’m Coming Home’, and it sounded great. So hopefully we’ll just do this, and then Oz will go, ‘Let’s just fire up the machine again and we’ll do another tour.’"
“With Oz and his throne that just flies over the stadium or whatever, [where he] shoots out buckets of water and does everything like that," Wylde added. "So if Oz has a great time and it’s just, like, ‘I wanna go out on the road again,’ it’s just, like, ‘Good. Let’s do it again.’”
The concert is set to take place at Villa Park in Black Sabbath's hometown of Birmingham, and the band will consist of its classic lineup, with Ozzy joining guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward. The concert is being billed as Back To The Beginning and is set to take place July 5. The all-day event will also feature sets from Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Alice in Chains, TOOL, and many other rock and metal icons.