Overview
- Morello told Chicago’s Q101 that Osbourne had "been frail for a while" and that it felt like he knew his time was limited during the July 5 show in Birmingham.
- He said Osbourne still came to the afterparty and was seen at another Birmingham event a week later, calling the death three weeks on a "terrible and tragic surprise."
- The "Back to the Beginning" concert featured Osbourne performing from a black throne and reuniting onstage with his Black Sabbath bandmates before 40,000 fans.
- According to Billboard reporting cited by People, the event generated more than $190 million for Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Acorn Children’s Hospice.
- Osbourne’s death certificate lists out of hospital cardiac arrest and acute myocardial infarction, with coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease with autonomic dysfunction as joint causes, and the BBC has delayed an Ozzy documentary at the family’s request.