Everything ended in a final version of ParanoidHis greatest success, conclusion of a night that tear the hearts of thousands of fans who came to attend Birmingham in the last Concert of Black Sabbath and his tired leader, Ozzy Osbourne.
“I love you!”, Lasto the charismatic singer with the crowd, who supported him from this “last show” with his voice, which he wanted in his city, surrounded by the biggest metal stars.
Suffering from Parkinson’s disease
At 76, the “Prince of Darkness”, his nickname, has suffered Parkinson’s disease for several years. The one who wrote his legend creaking the head of a living bat in the middle of a concert, sang sitting, prisoner of his tremors, on a satanic throne called to his attention, with eyes running surrounded by black.
A raw and moving farewell, in the company of his Black Sabbath acolytes, in front of tens of thousands of metal fans, from all over the world to communicate with him at the Aston Villa Football Club stadium, on the air of the pagan cathedral.
“I could see our support and that is what made me cry,” says Lilly Chapman, 29, still moved to have seen the “metal godfather”, another of his nicknames, “being vulnerable to thousands of people.”
Metallica, Gojira and Guns n’rose among the guests
Black Sabbath, heavy metal pioneer, had not been known in his original 1968 formation: Ozzy Osbourne in La Voz, Tony Lommi on the guitar, Geezer Butler on the bass and Bill Ward on battery, for 20 years.
An impressive tray had been summoned for the occasion: Metallica, Guns N’roseses, Pantera, Slayer, the French of Gojira, not forgetting Tom Morello de Rage against the machine, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones or Billy Corgan of the paporadas Smmashing.
With each passage, the spectators took care of these hymns who know so well, shaking their heads in unison, in an atmosphere to make supporters of the “villains”, usual occupants of the facilities.
Gains donated to associations
Some came from afar, such as Jared Higginbotham, a 34 -year -old thin man and bearded in Austin, Texas, with his partner Janice Attal, 50, so they consider “the largest metal concert of all time.” They followed the grass show. Others, more unfortunate, comforted themselves outside the enclosure.
Because despite very high prices, tickets for the event, organized after the first Oasis reform concert in Cardiff (Wales), snatched in just 16 minutes. The funds will be donated to beneficial organizations.
Henry Broderick, a 22 -year -old dump from Cambridge’s neighborhood with a boyfriend, says he spent 415 pounds for his place because “that is all that remained.”
The price to be paid to attend The Last of Ozzy, a crazy icon, as famous for its escapes as for its reality reality show in the 2000s, The OsbournesOne of MTV’s best successes, which allowed him to reach a new audience.
His group, Black Sabbath, has sold more than 75 million albums worldwide, with the highlights of tube sales such as Paranoid, War pigs EITHER Iron man. He is considered the creator of Heavy Metal, a mixture of rock and blue with heavy sounds and dark words. A genre hated for a long time but immensely popular today.
Source: BFM TV
