Ozzy Osbourne capped a 57-year career on 5 July with a one-night, all-star concert in Birmingham that he says will be his last live performance. The 76-year-old frontman, who has Parkinson’s disease, rose from below the stage on a bat-shaped throne to open the “Back to the Beginning” show before reuniting with Black Sabbath’s original members Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward for the first time in two decades. Roughly 40,000 fans filled Aston Villa’s Villa Park while a further 5.8 million watched online. Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Slayer, Tool and other heavy-metal luminaries—assembled by musical director Tom Morello—performed abbreviated sets and tributes. Osbourne closed the nine-hour marathon with Sabbath classics including “War Pigs” and a final rendition of “Paranoid,” telling the crowd, “Thank you from the bottom of my heart.” Promoters said the event raised about $190 million, which will be divided among Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Acorn Children’s Hospice and Cure Parkinson’s. That haul would make it the highest-grossing charity concert on record, surpassing benefit shows such as 1985’s Live Aid and 2025’s FireAid. Backstage, the evening also turned into a family milestone when Kelly Osbourne accepted a marriage proposal from Slipknot DJ Sid Wilson, underscoring the personal—and historic—farewell for heavy metal’s self-styled “Prince of Darkness.”