Ozzy's final performance set for cinemas

Ozzy Osbourne's final ever performance with Black Sabbath, filmed just 17 days before his death, is set to be shown in cinemas.

The Birmingham-born star, known as the Prince of Darkness, died aged 76 in July 2025, after Sabbath's Back To The Beginning farewell concert, where he was reunited in the city with his bandmates for the first time in 20 years.

The show, which saw them joined by an array of metal artists who regard them as heroes including Metallica, Guns 'n' Roses and Anthrax, gets a worldwide cinema release on 28 October.

Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back To The Beginning captures Osbourne with the band's original line-up, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward.

It has been produced by Mercury Studios, whose co-leads Ken Danquah and Andrea Dunn said: "Ozzy Osbourne is one of the most influential figures in music history, and his final performance with Black Sabbath deserves to be seen on the biggest possible stage.

"Last year, we brought this legendary concert to fans across the globe, offering millions the chance to be there through an unprecedented livestream.

"This film is the next chapter, giving fans a new way to experience that night on the big screen.

"Back To The Beginning captures the scale of a stadium performance and the intimacy of a farewell, crafted specifically for the cinema screen."

The sold out show at Villa Park stadium also saw Osborne perform a solo set with material from his career that saw him sell more than 55 million albums, after he was sacked from Sabbath in 1979.

Hosted by Jason Momoa with Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello serving as musical director, the show also included sets from bands including Guns N Roses and Metallica.

During the concert Osbourne – who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2019 – told the crowd: "I don't know what to say, man, I've been laid up for like six years. You have no idea how I feel – thank-you from the bottom of my heart."

His wife Sharon said the concert came about after she asked her husband "what would really make him happy".

"He said the only thing that would make him happy was if he could perform again and say goodbye to his fans," she said.

"That's all he wanted to do. He wanted to say goodbye and thank-you."

Iommi called the event "closure for the band", while Ward said he felt "completely at home" on stage again with his bandmates.

"To me it was like pure love," Butler said.

"It was just a wave of love. It's the only way I can describe it really. I mean I could feel it as if it is like tangible."

The band has been widely credited with defining and popularising the sound of heavy metal.

Osbourne also appeared in 2000s reality TV series The Osbournes, alongside wife Sharon and their two youngest children.

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