“Bill’s brother used to be in a gang, and he was like the knife man. Bill suggested we write a song about him”: The stories behind the three most obscure Black Sabbath covers played at the Back The Beginning gig

Ozzy Osbourne smiling while sat in a black throne on stage.

They promised us that Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell Back To The Beginning show would be the ultimate celebration of heavy metal’s founding fathers, and it did not disappoint.

More than 40,000 people gathered in Villa Park, a stone’s throw from where Sabbath formed, to see such heavyweights as Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Slayer and Tool paying tribute to the godfathers, together with pair of blockbusting all-star supergroups featuring everyone from Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and the Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood to Rage Against The Machine guitarist/Back To The Beginning musical director Tom Morello and members of Ghost, Sleep Token, Anthrax, Megadeth and more