Boozers were decked with purple balloons and flags; murals were everywhere you looked; people donned Ozzy outfits, flooding the streets with battered T-shirts and denim jackets. It felt like a World Cup final for the metal fans who flooded in from every corner of the planet .

It turns out that Back to the Beginning was part of a new beginning in the Osbourne family as Slipknot‘s Sid Wilson proposed to Kelly Osbourne backstage at the epic concert event that was serving as Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath‘s farewell.