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highplainsdem

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Sat Jul 19, 2025, 05:09 PM Saturday

Ozzy + Black Sabbath Farewell Concert Sets New All-Time Record (highest-grossing charity concert of all time)

https://loudwire.com/back-to-the-beginning-record/

According a report from Billboard, Back to the Beginning raised more than $190 million, which will be distributed between Birmingham Children's Hospital, Acorn Children's Hospice and Cure Parkinson's. Osbourne has battled the effects of Parkinson's since 2019.

That total makes Back to the Beginning the highest-grossing charity concert of all time.

Highest-Grossing Charity Concerts (totals provided by Billboard)
1. Back to the Beginning (2025): $190 million
2. FireAid (2025): More than $100 million
3. Live Aid (1985): Roughly $100 million
4. Farm Aid (since 1985): More than $80 million
5. Hope For Haiti (2010) $57 million

"It was over a year of hard work, but heavy metal was the music that made me love music and it was a labor of love," Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, who served as director for Back to the Beginning, said in an Instagram post. "We raised a ton of money for a great cause and so many great musicians and bands, and fans all over the world paid tribute to the ALL TIME greats."
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Ozzy + Black Sabbath Farewell Concert Sets New All-Time Record (highest-grossing charity concert of all time) (Original Post) highplainsdem Saturday OP
Cool, But... ProfessorGAC Saturday #1

ProfessorGAC

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1. Cool, But...
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 05:33 PM
Saturday

...I immensely enjoyed the Rock-Doc, "The End Of The End" which was a Black Sabbath history highlighted by clips from their farewell show.
Now, there's another farewell show? I get it's Ozzy's farewell but they should have left the Sabbath stuff out of it.
Hard to disagree, however, with the proceeds going to charity.

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