{"id":5185,"date":"2015-04-30T04:43:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T04:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/04\/30\/final-black-sabbath-album-and-tour-in-2016\/"},"modified":"2015-04-30T04:43:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T04:43:19","slug":"final-black-sabbath-album-and-tour-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/04\/30\/final-black-sabbath-album-and-tour-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Black Sabbath album and tour in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/c5\/Iommi_at_the_Forum.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"219\" height=\"241\" \/><br \/>Black Sabbath\u2019s long and confusing farewell has been given another lease of life by <span class=\" u-underline\">Ozzy Osbourne<\/span>, who says the band will tour for the last time in 2016, and release a final album. The singer was speaking at a press conference for the Monsters of  Rock festival in Brazil, where \u2013 Metal Hammer reports \u2013 he said: \u201cThe  plan is that next year we\u2019ll do the final <span class=\" u-underline\">Black Sabbath<\/span> tour and album. I\u2019m not stopping \u2026 my wife spends all my money, so I can\u2019t.\u201d   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>In March it was announced that <span class=\" u-underline\">Sabbath would play a final show at Ozzfest in Japan<\/span> on 22 November. Just weeks later it was announced that <span class=\" u-underline\">the band would not be playing that show<\/span> \u2013 Ozzy Osbourne would play as a solo artist. That led to speculation  that the \u201cfinal show\u201d announcement from Sharon Osbourne had been a  misunderstanding, and that she had merely meant it would be their  farewell to Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, Ozzy\u2019s new announcement makes plain that any Sabbath  farewell would not be a single-night affair. He said of the band: \u201cWe  all live in different countries and some of them want to work and some  of them don\u2019t want to, I believe. But we are going to do another tour  together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The remarks about members not wanting to work might be a reference to  the band\u2019s estranged drummer Bill Ward, who was excluded from the  band\u2019s recent reunion tour and album on grounds of his health \u2013 in  Osbourne\u2019s words \u2013 being \u201cfucked\u201d. Ward <span class=\" u-underline\">posted an angry message to Osbourne on his Facebook page<\/span> on 17 April, in which he insisted: \u201cI was ready and in shape to record.  I knew I would need to get in better shape for the gigs \u2013 same as I  have needed to do and have done in the past. I was beginning my workout  regime to get \u201ctour ready\u201d. I knew what I needed to do to play the gigs,  and I was confident I would be ready. I would not commit to an  extensive tour without believing I could go all the way with it. I  wouldn\u2019t do that to our fans \u2026 Sorry I can\u2019t love you back, Oz. I put my  love for you somewhere safe inside my heart in 2012 when your stories  started showing up. It\u2019s hard to love someone who thinks he\u2019s telling  the truth by making false claims, elitist comments and just plain rude  statements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Sabbath\u2019s long and confusing farewell has been given another lease of life by Ozzy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}