Tom Morello, musical director of Black Sabbath‘s Again To The Starting present, has stated that he expects the present to lift greater than $190 million for charity.
Morello has posted a sequence of images shot on the occasion , together with a grinning picture of Ozzy Osbourne overlaid with the road “Greater than 190 million might be donated to homes and hospitals for youngsters.”
“Thanks, Ozzy Osbourne, for trusting me to be the musical director of the Again To The Starting present,” says the Rage In opposition to The Machine man. “It was over a 12 months of exhausting work, however heavy metallic was the music that made me love music, and it was a labour of affection.
“We raised a ton of cash for a fantastic trigger, and so many nice musicians and bands followers everywhere in the world paid tribute to the all time greats.”
In accordance with The Guardian, the pay-per-view livestream of the occasion reached greater than 5 million followers, producing an estimated $150 million in income, revenue confirmed as being charity-bound when the livestream was introduced in June.
In reply to a query on Fb from a fan who requested if livestream income could be donated to charity – along with the proceeds from the dwell occasion itself – Osbourne’s workforce responded, “100% of the proceeds from the livestream additionally go to Acorns Youngsters’s Hospice, Birmingham Youngsters’s Hospital and Remedy Parkinson’s as effectively.”
All of the artists collaborating within the Again To The Starting occasion did so for no payment. Prices might be taken under consideration earlier than the ultimate quantity raised for charity may be confirmed.