Boozers were decked with purple balloons and flags; murals were everywhere you looked; people donned Ozzy outfits, flooding the streets with battered T-shirts and denim jackets. It felt like a World Cup final for the metal fans who flooded in from every corner of the planet .

Black Sabbath — consisting of Osbourne, Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward — held their star-studded goodbye concert “Back to the Beginning” at Villa Park Stadium in Birmingham, England, where the band was formed in 1968.

Ozzy Osbourne bid farewell to live performances at Villa Park with a star-studded concert dubbed "heavy metal Live Aid." Joined by original Black Sabbath members and rock legends like Metallica and Guns N' Roses,