Ozzy Osbourne has provided an update on his scheduled performance with rock band Black Sabbath this summer.
The 76-year-old rock icon is due to reform with his bandmates to play a final concert, titled Back To The Beginning, this July in Birmingham as part of a heavy metal concert at Villa Park.
While fans will be excited to watch the living legend back on stage for a final time, Osbourne has revealed he won’t be able to perform the entire set as he battles ill health.
He said, per the Daily Mail, “I’m not planning on doing a set with Black Sabbath but I am doing little bits and pieces with them. I am doing what I can, where I feel comfortable.”
The Paranoid singer was diagnosed with the progressive neurological disorder Parkinsons disease in 2019 – and has also struggled to recover from an accident in 2003 when he was thrown from an ATV.
Black Sabbath’s last-ever concert was announced earlier this month with Osbourne saying in a statement, “It’s my time to go back to the beginning… time for me to give back to the place where I was born.
“How blessed am I to do it with the help of people whom I love. Birmingham is the true home of metal. Birmingham forever.”
Proceeds from the concert are set to benefit three charities; Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, and Acorn Children’s Hospice.
