Clair Global and Greg Price Go Back to the Beginning

London, U.K. (August 22, 2025)—When Ozzy Osbourne played his final show on July 5 in the U.K. (he passed away 17 days later), Clair Global was there to supply a complete sound production and streaming package.

Ozzy and Black Sabbath band mates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward gave the world the band’s last live performance at Birmingham’s Villa Park Stadium for the band’s retirement gig, Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning, alongside a star-studded line-up. A crowd of 42,000 fans—one-fifth of them international—flocked to the venue, 5 million viewers streamed the show online and millions of pounds were generated for charitable causes.

Clair Global’s Greg Price, FOH engineer for Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath and Metallica, has a reputation of mixing live audio to the very highest standard. His history with Ozzy has been an incredible journey: 

“I have spent 30 years of my 50-year career with Ozzy and Sharon,” he says. “When I moved to LA in the 80s, to get work, they were the only ones that gave me a chance. Sharon and Ozzy let me grow my talent with them. I met Martha, my wife of 27 years on my first Ozzy tour, and the Price family has toured with the Osbourne family together all this time. We did all 17 years of Ozzfest together, too. When you add Black Sabbath into the equation, I have mixed both bands since 1995.”

Price subsequently established Diablo Digital, which creates turnkey, live-recording systems, alongside fellow engineer Brad Maddix. “Diablo Digital was set up to provide added value to clients, and this is why Sharon and Ozzy kept me around for 30 years,” Price continues. “I’ve provided them with the tools to continue to increase their brand and monetize it. Clair Global is now positioned in a way that we do this daily.”

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Diablo Digital’s critical live recording expertise was accompanied by Britannia Row Productions’ ability to assemble the right team for the event. Swiss colleagues AudioRent brought in a Cohesion CO12 PA and undertook onsite system engineering. The core equipment from Clair comprised a Cohesion PA, Avid and Yamaha consoles in monitor world, DiGiCo and Avid packages at FOH, a Riedel Communications matrix system and Bolero wireless intercoms, Motorola Radios and Shure Axient Digital for RF and PSM1000 IEMs.

Price, reflecting on his time mixing his legendary friend, says, “These were truly special moments in my life. If Ozzy was on stage, I was at FOH… An arrangement made in Heaven.”