Black Sabbath tour to extend into 2014
AAP
November 15, 2013, 4:48 pm
Ozzy Osbourne and his Black Sabbath bandmates have extended their reunion tour into 2014.
The heavy rockers were expected to bow out after a final hometown show in Birmingham, England, on 22 December but it appears the tour and the success of comeback album 13 has re-energised them.
In a statement released to various media outlets on Thursday, the group announced plans to tour North America and Europe in 2014, with a series of dates that will begin in Brooklyn, New York, on 31 March, 2014.
Black Sabbath will hit 10 cities in the US and Canada before wrapping up dates in North America at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on 26 April.
New European dates are yet to be confirmed.
Black Sabbath landed a hat-trick of prizes at the Classic Rock Roll Of Honour awards on Thursday night.
The annual event was staged by Classic Rock magazine,
In addition to an honorary living legend prize, their comeback release 13 was named best album and they took the event of the year title for hitting number one with the collection.
However, they missed out on the best band prize which went to the Rolling Stones, in a year which saw them top the bill at Glastonbury as well as playing headline shows in Hyde Park.
Guitarist Wilko Johnson who announced earlier this year he has terminal cancer and is refusing treatment - took the innovation prize.
Johnson, who first found fame with the band Dr Feelgood, is noted for his singular guitar style which sees him play lead and rhythm at the same time and playing a right-handed instrument despite being a left-hander.
The event also saw Mott the Hoople take a major prize with the outstanding contribution gong for their years of hits.
The band - fronted by Ian Hunter and currently on a reunion tour - is best remembered for songs such as All The Young Dudes, Roll Away The Stone and All The Way From Memphis
Black Sabbath's comeback album reunited original members Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler for the first time in 35 years, although they have released other recordings during that time with different personnel.
It took them to number one for the first time in 43 years. They had last achieved the feat with their second release Paranoid in 1970 which featured signature tracks such as War Pigs and Iron Man.
Other winners at the event included The Darkness, who took the showmen award, and Manic Street Preachers frontman James Dean Bradfield was the recipient of the maestro award.
