Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi said he thinks bandmate Ozzy Osbourne was "determined" to play the group's farewell show and "really just held out" to do so weeks before his death.

Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has said the loss of his bandmate Ozzy Osbourne is "like losing a brother". The pair, who met at school in Aston, Birmingham, before being catapulted into the limelight with Black Sabbath and forging the heavy metal genre,

Ozzy Osbourne closed out his career on a high note when he performed at the Back to the Beginning farewell show at Villa Park in Birmingham, England on July 5. Seated on a bat-winged throne, the legendary rocker,