Final month, Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath took the stage at their ultimate present “Again to the Starting” at Villa Park in Birmingham, England. Whereas the present was placed on to provide them a correct send-off, it additionally had a twin goal: to lift cash for charity.
Funds raised by the live performance are set to be equally break up between Remedy Parkinson’s, Birmingham Kids’s Hospital, and Acorn Kids’s Hospice.
Within the days following the present, a number of shops reported that “Again to the Starting” had raised an enormous $190 million. Now, Ozzy Osbourne’s spouse and supervisor Sharon Osbourne is refuting these claims.
In a simply printed interview with Pollstar carried out just a few days earlier than Ozzy’s demise, Sharon insists that they’re nonetheless unsure how a lot cash they really raised.
“I’m actually blissful that we’re speaking, as a result of one of many issues that’s scary me is all this false press about [how] we’ve made $140 million and all of this, and I’m like, ‘God, I want we might have, for one gig,’” she stated, implying that the precise financial determine could possibly be a lot lower than beforehand reported.
“It’s simply ridiculous, the completely different tales. I went on the web the following morning and it was like, $140 million, $160 million. And I’m like, ‘The place does these things come from?’ And folks like Billboard have printed it.”
When the interviewer famous that the precise reported quantity was $190 million, Sharon replied:
“Oh, $190 million? Thanks, Billboard, for getting it fallacious. Simply ridiculous. It takes a extremely very long time [to calculate], as a result of we’ve had the entire bands that we had are available in and their bills, and it’ll take six weeks to get the ultimate quantity. As a result of we’re promoting merch for one more two weeks from the gig. So, we’ve acquired one other two weeks of gross sales but so as to add to it. It’ll be one other 4 weeks and it’ll be completed.”
