Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath have signed off their career together with a bang. The Gods of heavy metal’s farewell show, Back to the Beginning, a little over a week ago in Birmingham, England, has become the highest-grossing charity concert of all time, according to Billboard. Rage Against the Machine guitarist and musical director of the show Tom Morello announced on Instagram last week that the Black Sabbath tribute show raised more than $190 million for charity. He added that the funds raised would be donated to houses and hospitals for children. “Boom. We set out to not just create the greatest day in the history of heavy metal,” Morello wrote. The money will be equally distributed to Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Acorn Children’s Hospice and Cure Parkinson’s, Osbourne himself having been living with Parkinson’s disease since 2019. Around 40,000 people turned out to the concert and 5.8 million people watched it online. According to Billboard, the amount of money the concert raised for charity surpassed other legendary charity concerts, like 1985’s Live Aid, which raised over $100 million for famine relief in Ethiopia and Sudan.
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