Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning to be livestreamed

It’s hello and goodbye in Birmingham for Black Sabbath…

Mercury Studios has secured exclusive rights to produce and livestream Back To The Beginning, a historic global event that will see Black Sabbath’s original lineup reunite on July 5 for the first and last time in over two decades.

Sharon Osbourne:

“We had such an overwhelming demand from fans from around the globe, who couldn’t get tickets to the show, and they took to social media, pleading with us to broadcast a livestream of the show. Being this is such a historic event, we just couldn’t let them down.”

Taking place at Birmingham’s historic Villa Park Stadium, the sold-out event marks Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell performance, bringing together heavy metal’s biggest icons including Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward, Metallica, and Guns N’ Roses.

After selling out in under 16 minutes, Mercury Studios will offer fans around the world a front-row seat to this huge event, which proudly supports charities close to Ozzy’s heart, via a global livestream experience in partnership with leading streaming technology partner Kiswe. They’ll have access to the raw livestream from 3:00pm on July 5th, and will also have exclusive access to rewatch the concert in its entirety for another 48 hours.

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Mercury Studios known for critically acclaimed productions such as One to One: John & Yoko, American Symphony, and Metallica Saved My Life, continues to produce music-driven storytelling. With Back To The Beginning, the studio brings its cinematic vision and music expertise to what is poised to be the greatest heavy metal show ever staged. Executive Producers for Mercury Studios are Kelly Sweeney and Alice Webb, and for Black Sabbath is Sharon Osbourne.

Their past livestream credits include Love Goes – Live at Abbey Road by Sam Smith and The Cure live at The Troxy. Known for delivering powerful, human stories through the lens of music and culture, Mercury Studios is set to honour this milestone in heavy metal history with the same depth and ambition.

Livestream tickets are now on sale, from today, Friday 6th June, at www.backtothebeginning.com.

Kelly Sweeney, Managing Director of Mercury Studios:

“Mercury Studios are incredibly proud to be involved in capturing this monumental milestone at Villa Park. ‘Back To The Beginning’ will be an unforgettable experience, and our aim is to deliver this moment to fans worldwide, wherever they are, so they don’t miss out on seeing music history being made.”

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‘Back To The Beginning’ will be captured, produced and distributed by Mercury Studios (One to One: John & Yoko, American Symphony, Metallica Saved My Life), who are pioneering the way for premium, music-driven storytelling across film, television, podcasts and immersive formats. Mercury has partnered with Kiswe – the global D2C streaming partner behind the record-breaking BTS concert livestream– to deliver this unforgettable moment of music history to fans across the globe.

The all-day event at Villa Park, produced by Live Nation, will be hosted and compered by American actor Jason Momoa, and feature a supergroup of musicians. Further artists announced so far include Tool, Slayer, Pantera, Gojira, Halestorm, Alice In Chains, Lamb Of God, Anthrax, Mastodon, Rival Sons, Andrew Watt, Billy Corgan (The Smashing Pumpkins), Chad Smith

(Red Hot Chili Peppers), Dave Ellefson, David Draiman (Disturbed), Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit), Lzzy Hale (Halestorm), Jake E Lee, KK Downing, Mike Bordin (Faith No More), Papa V Perpetua (Ghost), Rudy Sarzo, Sammy Hagar, Sleep Token ii (Sleep Token), Tom Morello, Vernon Reid (Living Colour), and Whitfield Crane (Ugly Kid Joe).

Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning to be livestreamed