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 .

Black Sabbath held a huge one-day event at Birmingham's Villa Park called Back to the Beginning, bringing their legendary story full circle. The renowned band's last event in their hometown, where heavy metal was born,

A fan was so desperate to hear Black Sabbath's iconic final concert, he travelled all the way from Germany just to sit outside the stadium. Philip Quade, 33, was out of luck when he couldn't score tickets for Villa Park's Back to the Beginning concert on July 5.