Sharon Osbourne Claims She Removed Band From Black Sabbath's Last Show

Sharon Osbourne allegedly canceled a band’s set at Black Sabbath’s “Back to the Beginning” concert after feeling disrespected.

“I had a huge, huge to-do with a manager over this celebration for Ozzy [Osbourne, my husband] and Sabbath. And it was probably the worst way I’ve felt in years,” Sharon, 72, recently told Metal Hammer ahead of the band’s Saturday, July 5, final show. “I don’t care what this person says about me [or] thinks about it, because he doesn’t know me. And he’s now going around making up bulls*** lies because I threw his band off the bill.”

She added, “I don’t care what people say. Because do you know what? I don’t love them. I care about people who love me, what they say about me. You can’t care what an industry says because you don’t love them, so how can it hurt you? It doesn’t.”

Sharon further claimed to Billboard that the group allegedly just wanted to “make a profit” during the show.

“It’s not the time to make a profit,” she added. “After the show, I’ll let everybody know who it was. I think people will be shocked.”

Sharon did not identify the name of the band that she allegedly removed from the “Back to the Beginning” roster, but she did tell the magazine that she wasn’t referring to Iron Maiden.

“Oh god, no. Ozzy only has respect for the guys in Maiden,” Sharon stressed to Metal Hammer. “And he didn’t even know what Bruce [Dickinson] was doing. I never told him, until the night that it happened, when it was the last show, and he just looked at me and goes, ‘You’re terrible.’”

Iron Maiden was previously invited to perform at the Osbournes’ Ozzfest in 2005 as a support act for Black Sabbath. When Ozzy’s band was unable to go on as planned, Iron Maiden played the headline slot, as well. Fans ended up throwing ice, lighters and other items at the band after Dickinson, now 66, made jokes about Ozzy, now 76. The drama led to a now-infamous falling-out between Dickinson and Sharon and Ozzy.

“I love Iron Maiden, it’s just the singer because he was so horribly disrespectful,” Sharon told Metal Hammer. “But if you’re going to take Ozzy’s money, and play before him every night of a festival, and you’re bad-mouthing him to the crowd, you’ve got to pay. So I had him pelted with cans of baked beans that were open, and cut his sound.”

Ozzy, who revealed his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in 2020, reunited with his Black Sabbath bandmates in Birmingham, England, on Saturday, July 5, to raise funds for Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Acorns Children’s Hospice. The show was also Ozzy’s farewell performance.

“I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you,” daughter Kelly Osbourne said in a social media video the next day. “Thank you to everyone who came to the show last night, [and] thank you to everybody who was involved in the show last night. You have no idea what it did for my dad.”

She continued, “It was one of the most magical experiences of my entire life, and if I keep talking, I’m probably going to end up crying again. So, that’s all I’ll say for now. Thank you.”