As I entered Birmingham’s Villa Park stadium just before 12pm on Saturday to see Black Sabbath’s Back to the Beginning concert – Black Sabbath’s last, and one of the biggest heavy metal shows of all time – an excited steward informed us that we were in for some huge surprises.

The metal luminary, 76, took the stage with his original bandmates at a farewell festival in his Birmingham, England, hometown on Saturday night.

Heavy metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne brought down the curtain on his stellar career with Black Sabbath on Saturday, rattling through the band's most iconic songs in front of an adoring hometown crowd.When it comes to heavy metal music, Black Sabbath forming and his love of Aston Villa -– it all started here," said his wife, Sharon.