In a brand new interview in the present day (Nov. 5) with Hits Day by day Double, Sharon Osbourne revealed how a lot of subsequent 12 months’s Ozzfest lineup has already been confirmed.
“Fifty p.c,” the Osbourne household matriarch mentioned after she expressed hope that the lineup does not range an excessive amount of between the U.Okay., U.S. and Mexico exhibits in 2027. “For me, it might be loads much less work.”
The return of Ozzfest was a buzzing matter amongst metallic followers after Sharon and her son Jack had extensively teased that it will be making its first in-person return since 2018 (a digital model was held within the Metaverse in 2022).
After all, it additionally marks the very first Ozzfest since Ozzy Osbourne‘s demise in the summertime of 2015, simply 17 days after his ultimate efficiency on the Again to the Starting live performance in his hometown of Birmingham.
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With Ozzfest now set for 3 places worldwide, the hypothesis shifts to which bands will play? Will there be a particular Ozzy-related set? No different particulars have been confirmed, but it surely makes for an thrilling 2027 already.
When Sharon was requested why, in spite of everything she’s completed, she’s pursue one other Ozzfest, the thought of legacy returned.
“I need to do it for my grandchildren. I need to do it for everybody who loves Ozzy. It’s his legacy, and I need it to go on and on. He’s lifeless, however he’s not forgotten and he left an amazing physique of labor,” she shared, “There are so few actual characters left on this business—real ones, not made up for the cameras. Nothing about Ozzy was contrived. He was by no means a kind of rock stars sitting entrance row at a trend present attempting to be the good man within the room.”
An Ozzy Musical Is Additionally Coming
With a lot in play bearing Ozzy’s title (an AI avatar, the bodily launch of Again to the Starting, the Ozzy haunted home at Common Studios, a film with Sony Footage now in its fourth script), there’s much more on the best way.
“I’m engaged on a musical,” Sharon revealed and added, “It’s going to be edgy and completely different, constructed round Ozzy’s music. We had three provides to do an Ozzy jukebox musical on Broadway, and I mentioned there’s no means that will ever work — it’d be horrendous. You want credible gamers, not Broadway actors doing rock.”
Beneath, look again in any respect the band who performed Ozzfest, from A to Z.
Trying Again At Extra Than 100 Bands That Performed Ozzfest
Ozzfest supplied a platform for established metallic acts and people simply developing within the scene to achieve a wider viewers as a touring competition. Here’s a look again on the greater than 100 acts that carried out throughout Ozzfest over time.
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