![]() ![]() So, when the guitarist was invited to play again at the close, Tony had been talking to other 'big names' with a view to being able to play with them as a follow-up to his opening ceremony performance with saxophonist Soweto Kinch Ozzy Osbourne UK tour - when you can next see him live in Birmingham and how to buy tickets. ![]() Ozzy Osbourne's humble upbringing in Aston to becoming the Prince of Darkness.Tony told BirminghamLive that even during his own performance at the opening ceremony, he had no idea Ozzy would be able to travel from the United States having not long had an operation to improve his mobility following a fall at home. the kid who used to run onto his beloved Villa Park pitch - surely would have been there with Ozzy and Tony again?Īlas, everything was done at such short notice and circumstances for Geezer had already intervened. he of the AVFC liveried bass guitar with the motto 'Prepared'. Geezer, always the shy one, had left a permanent marker on the band's pioneering heavy metal history thanks to lyrics which helped to give birth to Ozzy's Prince of Darkness persona - all deliciously underpinned by the formidable rythm section he'd formed with the band's fourth original member, drummer Bill WardĮven though all four Sabbath members had grown up on neighbouring streets of Aston - an inner city part of the West Midlands' metal-bashing industrial heartland which would both influence and fuel their sound - Ward was never going to appear for a five-minute blast at the Commonwealth Games when he hadn't played with the band for years re apparent contractual wrangles and ill-health.īut former Sacred Heart pupil Geezer. Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler on the heavy metal bench on Broad Street (Image: Darren Quinton / BirminghamLive) When the Games finally came, Sabbath were going to need to play just one song in full - Paranoid - for which Geezer had written the lyrics! Guitarist Tony Iommi had been with Geezer all the way at the above three events after they - and Ozzy - had brought the curtain down on Black Sabbath's extraordinary 50-year career with two final shows right at the end of The End world tour, held at the NEC's then Genting Arena on February 2 and 4 2017. Read more: Secret operation which got Ozzy Osbourne to Commonwealth Games closing ceremony - Tony Iommi reveals all Especially as the above video shot in June, 2019 features Tony and Geezer hilariously reacting to a BirminghamLive suggestion they could play at the Commonwealth Games. So when Ozzy Osbourne made a miraculous appearance at the closing ceremony of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games alongside guitarist Tony Iommi, fans might have wondered why Adam Wakeman was playing bass instead of Black Sabbath founder member, Geezer Butler. The last time Geezer Butler made public appearances in Birmingham it was to receive a Broad Street Walk of Stars Award in 2018 - and to unveil the Black Sabbath Bench on Broad Street the following year in 2019, on the same June day he also visited the brilliant Home of Metal exhibition at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. Legendary bass player Geezer Butler didn't play at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games closing ceremony because the rocker had come a cropper on a boat - and was crocked.
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