Overview
- He trains seven days a week with a live-in rehabilitation specialist at his Los Angeles home to prepare for the July 5 concert at Villa Park.
- The performance at Villa Park will reunite the original Black Sabbath lineup (Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward) for the first time in 20 years.
- Ozzy’s Parkinson’s disease, compounded by mobility challenges from multiple surgeries, has left him monitoring his heart rate and blood pressure up to 15 times a day.
- He has openly shared struggles with ADHD-driven stage fright and self-doubt, admitting uncertainty over whether he will perform standing or seated.
- All profits from the Back to the Beginning show will support Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Acorn Children’s Hospice.