Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne's Back To The Beginning raised $11 million which will be distributed equally to Birmingham Children's Hospital, Acorn Children's Hospice and Cure Parkinson's. It's worth noting the final number raised by the show, considering there were originally reports that Back To The Beginning raised a lot closer to $200 million.
In a recent episode of The Osbournes podcast, Sharon Osbourne talked a little about how ridiculous the original reports were: "If one show could have raised… I mean, [the articles were saying] it was up to, like 190 million. It's, like, any artist, just do one big show, film it and you can retire just on one show. No, it was nowhere near, and I wish that it was, but we are living in reality, in the real world."
She continued: "It raised 11 [million]. But with the cost, 'cause we paid the cost of bringing everybody in, everybody out, accommodation, everything. [And] no one got paid. Nobody asked for a penny. They gave their time, their efforts, everything for free. People were just — oh God — so generous."
In a Pollstar interview conducted on July 17, Sharon shot down the widely circulated claim that Back To The Beginning raised nearly $200 million (or 140 million pounds), calling the reports highly exaggerated and misleading.
"One of the things that's frightening me is all this false press about [how], we've made $140 million and all of this, and I'm like, God, I wish we could have, for one gig," Sharon said. "It's just ridiculous, the different stories. I went on the internet the next morning and it was like, $140 million, $160 million. And I'm like, Where does this stuff come from?"
In that same episode, the Osbourne family also reflected on the death of Ozzy and even revealed that Back To The Beginning almost didn't happen due to a hospitalization.
