Sharon Osbourne Says Ozzfest Will ‘Absolutely’ Return with Late Black Sabbath Singer’s Blessing

REVIVAL Sharon Osbourne Says Ozzfest Will ‘Absolutely’ Return with Late Black Sabbath Singer’s Blessing "Yeah, we’re gonna do it,” Sharon said during the MIDEM 2026 conference in France By Cheyenne Roundtree Cheyenne Roundtree Contact Cheyenne Roundtree on X Contact Cheyenne Roundtree by Email View all posts by Cheyenne Roundtree March 3, 2026 After a near-decade-long hiatus, Sharon Osbourne says Ozzfest is “absolutely” in the works for next year, saying the Black Sabbath frontman , Ozzy Osbourne , gave his blessing for the event to continue on in his memory before his death last July . “Yeah, we’re gonna do it,” Osbourne said last month during a sit-down talk at the MIDEM 2026 conference in Cannes, France. “The last one we did was 2018. It was just a month before Ozzy got sick, and that was at the Forum in L.A. And there no plans to stop it. We were still gonna do it, but Ozzy couldn’t. And Ozzy and I would talk about it, and he’d say, ‘Do you think Ozzfest would work without me?’ And I’m, like, ‘Yeah, it’s a brand. It will work without you.’ And he said, ‘We should do it.’” Trending Stories Trump’s Iran War Is Built on Lies and Fantasies