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Events on Saturday 5 July 2025 3
1968 – 2025Black SabbathEnglish heavy metal bandTony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward — the Birmingham band that created heavy metal.
2025Back to the Beginning -- final show, Birmingham, 5 July 2025On 5 July 2025, Osbourne performed his final concert, Back to the Beginning, in his hometown of Birmingham, reuniting with all three original Black Sabbath bandmates -- Iommi, Butler and Ward -- for the first time in decades. The show was announced as his farewell performance due to his deteriorating health. Sharon later said it was the perfect way to end a career that had begun in the same city nearly sixty years earlier.
2025Black Sabbath's farewell concert Back to the BeginningVilla ParkA last reunion of the original four in Birmingham.