Sharon Osbourne Talks Ozzy’s ‘Back to the Beginning’ Film: ‘He Went Out Like a Viking’ — SkimNews
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- Ozzy Osbourne performed his final concert, "Back to the Beginning," last summer in Birmingham, England, drawing 44,000 fans over 10 hours with a lineup including Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Slayer, Mastodon, and Tom Morello–assembled supergroups featuring Steven Tyler and Sammy Hagar.
- Sharon Osbourne disclosed that six specialists, including a "quarterback" coordinating care, warned the family that Ozzy's final show "would kill him," but Ozzy overruled them: "It's not an option. It's what I want," saying he'd rather lose months of life than skip the farewell.
- "Back to the Beginning" concert film, directed by Ben Wainwright-Pearce (Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour) and mixed in 5.1 surround sound, premieres on a "purple carpet" at Los Angeles' Orpheum Theatre on Wednesday before opening in theaters worldwide on Oct. 28, with half of premiere proceeds going to homeless charities.
- Sharon Osbourne said she has watched the concert film but cannot bring herself to view two other recent Ozzy documentaries — Paramount+'s "Ozzy: No Escape from Now" and BBC's "Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home" — saying she is "just not ready mentally."
- Ozzy Osbourne died 17 days after the concert; Sharon said he spent those final days "so, so happy" and "elated," repeatedly telling her "I did it. I did it," and described his farewell performance as triumphant rather than tragic: "He went out like a Viking."
- Sharon Osbourne said the past year has been "very, very tough" due to grief compounded by active litigation against people around Ozzy, saying she's "in a lot of litigation right now with a lot of businesspeople, and it's just ugly."
Why it matters: The film's Oct. 28 theatrical rollout turns a charity-only livestream into a permanent, revenue-generating record of the 40,000-person Birmingham sendoff — and Sharon's on-camera admission that six doctors warned the show "would kill him" reframes Ozzy's exit as a deliberate, informed choice rather than a tragedy of declining health, while her disclosure of ongoing business litigation signals unresolved financial fallout from his death.
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