Lollapalooza 2012: The Billboard Guide
This year’s Lollapalooza is more stuffed than a Thanksgiving turkey. With the festival landing in Chicago on Friday (Aug. 3), Billboard has your guide to the weekend’s must-see bands. FRIDAY Michael...
View ArticleLollapalooza 2012: 15 Things Seen & Heard Friday
The opening day of Lollapalooza 2012 closed with a black celebration. Or the north end of Chicago’s Grant Park, devil horns flew and heads banged as Black Sabbath brought forth a metal onslaught of...
View ArticleFive Awesome Lollapalooza 2012 Moments
The Lollapalooza 2012 lineup was packed with more than 150 rockers, rappers and EDM ravers, who kept crowds rocking in Chicago’s Grant Park all weekend long. But as always, there were a few acts who...
View ArticleOzzy Osbourne International Airport? Rocker’s Hometown Government ‘Intrigued’...
Will the airplane overtake the bat as the flying object most associated with Ozzy Osbourne? British recording industry vet Jim Simpson, who discovered Osbourne’s pioneering heavy metal band Black...
View ArticleGeezer Butler on Another Black Sabbath Album: ‘Never Say Never’
Geezer Butler says that he’s happy he and Black Sabbath mates Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi “were able to come together and do one final album” — “13,” which comes out June 11 and is currently...
View ArticleHere’s What It Will Take for Drummer Bill Ward to Rejoin Black Sabbath
While Black Sabbath is in “ongoing discussions” about a farewell tour, Bill Ward, its original drummer, hasn’t been in on the talk. On Wednesday (April 15), he posted a lengthy message on his Facebook...
View ArticleOzzy Osbourne Gives Update on Black Sabbath’s Farewell Album and Tour
Shortly after Black Sabbath’s alleged farewell show was altered, Ozzy Osbourne has issued an update on the legendary band’s swan song. At São Paulo, Brazil’s Monsters of Rock festival (where he also...
View ArticleBlack Sabbath Delivers the Goods at Farewell Tour Stop in Los Angeles
There are certain things you expect from a Black Sabbath show: pyro, lots of fists in the air and Ozzy Osbourne mumbling something you don't understand. Black Sabbath Has One More CD to Come…But...
View ArticleBlack Sabbath’s Tony Iommi Says His Cancer is in Remission
Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi says that his cancer is in remission. The Birmingham Mail reports that the heavy metal guitar legend revealed the news during the unveiling of a plaque at the United...
View ArticleOriginal Black Sabbath Drummer Bill Ward Says Ozzy Osbourne Never Asked Him...
Bill Ward, one quarter of Black Sabbath’s original 1968 incarnation, has not been performing with the band on its worldwide farewell tour. Could he rejoin in time for Sabbath’s last show, a hometown...
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