Ozzy Osbourne reunites with Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi in surprise return to stage

Ozzy Osbourne performs during the closing ceremony at the Commonwealth Games Monday night. Rock legend Ozzy Osbourne surprised the audience at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games on Monday night by joining his Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi onstage to perform their 1970 hit “Paranoid.” The appearance marked Osbourne’s first gig since having a “major operation” in June. It was also the first time Iommi and Osbourne had shared the stage since Black Sabbath’s “The End” tour in 2017. “He has a very major operation on Monday, and I have to be there,” Sharon said on “The Talk UK.” “It’s really going to determine the rest of his life.” Osbourne discussed his then-upcoming surgery with Classic Rock magazine in May. If tomorrow you read ‘Ozzy Osbourne never woke up this morning,’ you wouldn’t go, ‘Oh, my God.’ You’d go, ‘Well, it finally caught up with him.’”