The Black Sabbath farewell at Villa Park is becoming a film. Back To The Beginning goes into cinemas worldwide for a limited run from 28 October, built out of the performances that day, and the pre-sale opens on Thursday 24 September with a trailer alongside it.
Why the day happened at all is on record, in the plainest possible terms. “Back to the Beginning came about because I asked Ozzy what would really make him happy,” Sharon Osbourne has said, “and he said the only thing that would make him happy was if he could perform again and say goodbye to his fans. That's all he wanted to do.”