Sammy Hagar thinks Black Sabbath began the “metallic period”.
Sammy Hagar has heaped reward on Black Sabbath
The enduring band carried out their last-ever gig at Villa Park in Birmingham on Saturday (05.07.25), and Sammy, the previous Van Halen frontman, has described the star-studded live performance because the “biggest metallic occasion of all time”.
Sammy, 77, informed BBC Information: “Black Sabbath actually sort of began all this, the metallic period. Everybody appears to be like at them just like the kings, and if the kings are going to exit then we’ll go honour them.
“Everybody that was requested to do that, shoot, you drop every thing and do that. That is going to go down in historical past as the best metallic occasion of all time.”
The gig in Birmingham noticed Ozzy Osbourne carry out with the unique Black Sabbath line-up for the primary time in 20 years.
The present additionally featured appearances from the likes of Metallica, Weapons N’ Roses, Yungblud, the Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wooden and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith.
In the meantime, Yungblud not too long ago admitted to being impressed by Ozzy.
The 27-year-old star is a long-time fan of the Black Sabbath frontman, and he paid a glowing tribute to Ozzy, 76, forward of the band’s farewell gig at Villa Park.
Yungblud – whose actual title is Dominic Harrison – informed The Impartial earlier this month: “Since I can bear in mind, Ozzy has all the time been part of my life.
“I grew up round rock music, and he was a personality to me earlier than I even knew something about him. I bear in mind his hair, I bear in mind his large mouth, I bear in mind his glasses from after I was three years previous.
“If me and my household, we’re really f****** loud – they used to name us The Osbournes. So, I sort of discovered solace in being just like them.
“Rising up watching The Osbournes and the insanity, I used to be all the time like that. I used to be all the time on the market and loopy. To see somebody being so liked and accepted with all their insanity … I actually discovered solace in a determine like Ozzy.”
