Everyone who watched Ozzy Osbourne play his last show, at Villa Park in his hometown of Birmingham on Saturday, July 5, has their own vivid memory of it.
“As soon as he hit the stage, everything changed,” says Mastodon drummer Brann Dailor, whose band had opened the Back To The Beginning gig eight hours earlier. “As long as he sat there, it didn’t matter if he didn’t sing a note, because everyone was doing it for him. It was a beautiful thing to be a part of, everyone weeping and hugging. The Mr. Crowley intro came on and everybody was just done.”
