When Back To The Beginning's musical director Tom Morello said the show would be the most historic day in heavy metal history, it wasn't mere hyperbole. Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne's final performances were send-offs for the ages, the climax of an event so seismic the dust may never settle, with a supporting cast to match. Indeed, it may never be matched.
At a packed Villa Park in Birmingham, a stadium built in the streets where Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward grew up, rock and metal's A-list flew in and honoured the four men who invented it all. Every band covered Sabbath, two hastily assembled supergroups did the same, and it all finished with sets from Ozzy and Sabbath themselves, back home, back where it all began. For the last time.
