Sharon Osbourne has insisted that Ozzfest will "absolutely" return.
Osbourne revealed that the festival would return, with the blessing of the late Ozzy Osbourne. The inaugural festival took place in October 1996, last two days, before expanding into a full blown tour rather than a one day event.
This festival has since continued for every year until 2018, having reverted to a single day event from 2008. The final show of the festival took place in Inglewood in California on New Year's Eve 2018, which included performances from Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie, DevilDriver and the late Ozzy Osbourne.
Now, Ozzy's widow, Sharon Osbourne has stated that the rock festival which the pair launched together three decades earlier.
When asked last month if Ozzfest would return, Sharon Osbourne said: “Yes, absolutely. We’re gonna do it".
She added: “The last one we did was 2018. It was just a month before Ozzy got sick, and that was at the Forum in L.A. And there [were] no plans to stop it. We were still gonna do it, but Ozzy couldn’t. And Ozzy and I would talk about it, and he’d say, ‘Do you think Ozzfest would work without me?’ And I’m, like, ‘Yeah, it’s a brand. It will work without you.’ And he said, ‘We should do it".
Sharon Osbourne was speaking about this while appearing at the MIDEM 2027 conference in Cannes, France, last month.
Last month also saw Sharon Osbourne admit that her late husband Ozzy "knew" that he did not have long left to live following that final Black Sabbath gig in Birmingham last Summer.
“Two weeks before the show, they said he could probably die, and he did. But he wanted to do it so bad", Sharon said. “He needed it. And [he was] like, ‘Whether I die in two weeks or I die in six months, I’m still dying. And I want to go my way.’ And he did. He went like a rock star". More on this from Nova here.
Elsewhere, Kelly Osbourne hit back at the hostile and "disgusting" abuse she received as she grieved for her father. More on this from Nova here.
