Yungblud has led a supergroup at the final Black Sabbath concert, dedicating the band’s song ‘Changes’ to the late footballer Diogo Jota.
The historic gig, dubbed ‘Back To The Beginning’, is set to be the final farewell for the iconic heavy metal band. The all-day event is going down at Villa Park in Birmingham today (July 5) and features a who’s who of hard rock music.
In the early afternoon, during a section listed on the running order as ‘Supergroup A’, Yungblud led a group that also included Nuno Bettencourt from Extreme on guitar, II from Sleep Token on drums and Adam Wakeman of Ozzy Osbourne’s band – and son of rock legend Rick – on keys.
They played a version of Black Sabbath’s ‘Changes’, the ballad from their 1972 album ‘Vol. 4’, which Yungblud dedicated to the late Liverpool star Jota, who tragically lost his life in a car accident in northern Spain on Thursday (July 3).
See footage from the performance here:
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Yungblud and ll (Sleep Token) performing today during Black Sabbath’s Back to the Beginning.
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Nuno Bettencourt wearing a Jota shirt while Yungblud dedicates Changes to Diogo Jota 👏🏻 #BackToTheBeginning pic.twitter.com/gZzmgq97Vu
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Not content with taking up a role at ‘Back To The Beginning’, Yungblud is due to take to stage at Rock Werchter Festival in Belgium tonight (July 5), where he will be the last-minute replacement for Sam Fender, who has had to cancel his appearance due to a vocal haemorrhage. Yungblud is due to play at 11:30pm local time.
Announcing his new headline slot on his Instagram story, Yungblud teased: “Have to make a quick stop in Birmingham first,” before sharing a photo of him outside an Osbourne mural, alongside the hashtag #backtothebeginning.
The gig is set to include a host of other huge names in the genre, including Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Alice In Chains, Gojira, Anthrax, Smashing Pumpkins‘ Billy Corgan, Guns N’ Roses, KoRn, Tool, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and the surviving members of Soundgarden. Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello will serve as musical director for the concert, which is being live-streamed around the globe, and actor Jason Momoa will host.
The Prince Of Darkness has not played a full gig since 2018, and has undergone multiple surgeries and experienced numerous health problems, including Parkinson’s disease in recent years.
In an interview with The Guardian earlier this year, Osbourne looked ahead to playing the last Black Sabbath show in good health, saying: “I’ll be there, and I’ll do the best I can. All I can do is turn up.” From there, there were also suggestions that he “may be sitting down” on stage, and rumours that he’d be performing from a “throne that flies over the stadium”.
His wife and manager, Sharon, also said to NME that, although he now “can’t walk” as a result of Parkinson’s, his illness “doesn’t affect his voice”. “He wants to say thank you to everybody,” she explained to us at Villa Park. “He didn’t have that chance because of his illness, but now he does have the chance.”
In other news, Yungblud is set to embark on a UK and Ireland arena tour in 2026 – buy any remaining tickets here. Those dates will follow next month’s brief run of intimate UK gigs, dubbed ‘Idols – Up Close And Personal’, and Yungblud’s headline tours in North America and Europe later this year.
