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Report: OZZFEST 2008 Grosses $3.5 Million

August 15, 2008

Ray Waddell of Billboard.biz reports that Ozzfest 2008, with METALLICA and OZZY OSBOURNE as headliners, grossed nearly $3.5 million and drew close to 30,000 people to Dallas' Pizza Hut Park, according to producers Sharon Osbourne and AEG Live. Sponsored by Affliction Clothing, this year's Ozzfest marked the return of the 13-year-old music brand after a free run at amphitheaters last year.

Last weekend's one-off event did "fantastically well," Sharon Osbourne tells Billboard.biz. "The one thing is you want for the kids to go away and keep talking about what a great show it was, and that's what they're doing."

Osbourne says plans are for Ozzfest to return to Dallas again next summer, likely as a two-day festival, and other cities are also being considered.

"Ozzfest ain't going anywhere," she says. "We do try and shake things up and experiment, we're not the old donkey that plods on doing the same shit."

Read the entire article from Billboard.biz.

The official Ozzfest YouTube channel has been updated with a five-minute video clip featuring footage from this year's one-day stadium event on August 9, 2008 at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, Texas. Watch it below.

Saturday's show included performances from METALLICA, OZZY OSBOURNE, SERJ TANKIAN, KORN singer Jonathan Davis, APOCALYPTICA, SEVENDUST, IN THIS MOMENT and more, as well as an all-star tribute to late PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott that featured members of ALICE IN CHAINS, METALLICA, SLAYER, MUDVAYNE, HELLYEAH, ANTHRAX and others.

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