2026 Grammy Winner - YUNGBLUD - "Changes (Live From Villa Park) Back To The Beginning"

0:03 Kalaroga Shark Media. I'm Garrett Fisher and On February first, twenty twenty six, at the Grammy Awards, young Blood walked onto the stage to accept the award for Best Rock Performance. He was joined by Sharon Osborne, Nuno Bettencourt, Frank Bellow, and Adam Wakeman, the all star band that had performed with him on the track The Widow of the Man. They'd honored the musicians who'd helped make it happen. You do not expect to be up here, and then you fucking are, so it's wild, young Blood said, visibly overwhelmed. Then he got to the heart of it. To grow up loving an idol who helps figure out your identity not only as a musician but as a man is something I'm truly grateful for. For them to get to know them and form a relationship with them, and honor them at their final show and then received this. The cost of it is something I and all of us are finding so strange to comprehend. The win was for Changes Live from Villa Park Back to the Beginning, young Blood's cover of Black Sabbath's ballad. Changes performed at Ozzy Osbourne's farewell concert on July fifth, twenty twenty five. Seventeen days after that performance, Ozzy Osbourne died at age seventy six. This Grammy wasn't just about a great performance. It was about a young artist earning his place in front of the toughest crowd, imaginable.

1:32 It was about a mentor passing the torch. It was about grief and legacy and what it means to honor someone who changed your life. Let's tell this story properly. Dominic Richard Harrison was born August fifth, nineteen ninety seven, in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. His parents were Samantha and Justin Harrison. He has two younger sisters, Jemima and Isabelle. From a young age, Dominic was diagnosed with ADHD. He was an opinionated and jeddak kid whose intensity was often misunderstood. He got kicked out of school after trying to fulfill a dare from a friend. Teachers didn't know what to do with him, but his family did. They were loud, unfiltered, chaotic.

2:13 Dominic later said that growing up people used to call them the Osbornes, that comparison would prove prophetic. His grandfather, Rick Harrison ran a guitar shop in Doncaster. Music was everywhere. Dominic absorbed influences from Arctic Monkeys to Nirvana to Marilyn Manson to Kanye West. He was drawn to artists who didn't fit in, who were unapologetically themselves. Before music, he tried acting. He appeared in six episodes of the Disney Channel series The Lodge in twenty sixteen. But music was calling Louder. In January twenty eighteen, at age twenty, he released his debut EP under the name young Blood. The name was Deliberate, Youth, Blood, Energy, every Thing he was.

3:01 His debut album, twenty first Century Liability, came out in July twenty eighteen. It was a bratty fusion of punk, hip hop and altpop, political, angry, confrontational. He toured with Van's Warp Tour that summer. The music industry didn't quite know what to make of him. Was he punk, hip hop pop? The answer was all of it, none of it, something new. His second EP, The Underrated Youth, came out in October twenty nineteen. The single I Think I'm Okay with Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker became a hit. He was building a following young people who felt like outsiders who didn't fit the mold society tried to force them into His second album, Weird, dropped in December twenty twenty and hit number one on the UK album's chart, number seventy five on the Billboard two hundred in the US.

3:54 He was crossing over throughout this period. Youngblood was theatrical, flamboyant, unapologetic, eyeliner, pink, frequent shirtlessness, leather pants. He identified as pan sexual and was open about his mental health struggles. He dated Halsey briefly in twenty nineteen, then Jesse Joe Starr. His third album, self titled Young Blood, came out in twenty twenty two. It hit number one in the UK, number forty five on the Billboard two hundred, but he wasn't satisfied. He later said that album was a pastiche a reaction made in fear of living up to people's expectations. It lacked cohesion, identity, a through line. He'd listened to what people wanted instead of what he needed to say. That realization led him to his fourth album, Idols. But before we get to Idols, we need to talk about Ozzie. In March twenty twenty two, young Blood released the single The Funeral. The music video featured Sharon Osbourne and Ozzy Osbourne himself. During that vide yo shoot in Pomona, California, something click Youngblood and Ozzie connected.

5:05 Sharon and Kelly Osbourne later marveled at their similarities on the Osbourne's podcast Favorite Tour Food Pasta at lunchtime, Youngblood said, same as dad. Kelly responded, how does he kill time on flights? Drink war movies at ten am? I can't believe it, Sharon said, Ozzie's the same. But the connection went deeper than pasta and war films. Young Blood opened up to Ozzie about the hate he'd received online, people calling him disrespectful for spitting beer into crowds at his shows, people who didn't understand him. Ozzie gave him advice that changed his life. People think I'm kind of gone, but I'm not. I'm so intelligent and so fucking beautiful. People are scared of me until they hear me speak. Never apologize for anything. They will understand you later. Time always tells.

6:07 He told young Blood to spit beer, but with love. He told him, you don't want to live your life censoring it. Don't not be a rock star. Young Blood later said, if you can be completely truthful, people aren't going to get it, and then they're gonna get it. For a period you're gonna be loved, and for a period you're gonna be hated. And Ozzy was like, that's the journey. When you look back at it at seventy, that's the fucking fun bit. Ozzy became a mentor, a father figure family. Ozzie gifted young Blood across necklace. Youngblood wore it everywhere. It became the most precious thing I own. They stayed in touch, They talked on the phone. When young Blood felt misunderstood, he cried to Ozzie and Ozzy, who'd spent decades being called crazy, weird, too much, understood completely.

7:00 In early twenty twenty five, young Blood was working on Idols, his fourth album and biggest artistic statement yet. The album was a love letter to rock music, to his heroes, to the legends who'd shown him what was possible. Nine minutes, opening with Hello, Heaven, Hello, Raw, vulnerable about moving forward and discovering himself. Singles included Love, Sick, Lullaby and Zombie featuring Florence pew In the music video. Idols was released June twentieth, twenty twenty five, through Locomotion Recordings and Capitol Records. It was the first half of a two part project.

7:40 It hit number one on the UK Album's Chart, his third consecutive number one. It reached number one on the Billboard two hundred in the US, his biggest American success yet. The album was young blood, leaning into his classic rock influences, bigger guitars, more focused songwriting, a cohesive vision. Dave Grohl had called him the future of rock and roll in twenty twenty two. Mick Jagger had given him a guitar. Now he was proving them right. Critics noticed the shift. This wasn't the bratty punk hop kid anymore. This was an artist who'd found his voice. And then came the call about Ozzie's final show. Black Sabbath had formed in nineteen sixty eight in Aston, Birmingham, near Villa Park Football Stadium.

8:29 The band had defined heavy metal, sold over seventy five million albums, changed music forever. Ozzy had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in February twenty nineteen. He'd suffered spinal damage from a fall that same year. By early twenty twenty five, he'd lost his ability to walk. He rarely performed anymore, but he wanted one final show, one last time with the original Black Sabbath lineup Ozzy, Tony, Iomi, Geezer, Butler, bill Ward. They hadn't performed together since two thousand and five. Back to the Beginning was scheduled for July fifth, twenty twenty five, at Villa Park in Birmingham, a ten hour benefit concert fourteen supporting acts, a drum.

9:13 Off video tributes. Ozzie would sing seated on a throne, unable to stand. Tom Morello was organizing the musical lineup Who's Who of Rock, Metallica, Mastadon Rival Sons, Anthrax, Hailstorm, Lamb of God, Gojira and young Blood. When young Blood found out he was invited, he made a specific request. I wanted it, he told nme. Tom Morello put the whole thing together, and I said, give me the ballad. He wasn't so sure, but I told him, trust me, I'll bring the house down. The ballad was changes originally from Black Sabbath's nineteen seventy two album Volume four, a piano driven song a about heartbreak and loss. Ozzie's vocals raw and vulnerable. It's not a typical rock anthem. It's quiet, emotional, requires restraint and soul.

10:11 Tom Morello was hesitant. This was a stadium full of metal heads, hardcore black Sabbath fans. They were coming to see Ozzie's final show. Would they accept young Blood, a twenty seven year old punk kid an eyeliner, performing one of Sabbath's most intimate songs. But young Blood was insistent. He knew he could do it, He had to do it. There was one problem. Young Blood was already booked to perform at Rockworchster Festival in Belgium on July fifth. I couldn't miss it, he said. We've become so close and I love him. His music has given me an outlet, and he's given me so much advice. When it felt like people didn't understand me, I cried down the phone to him. He's always told me people will not get you, so do not deviate, keep fighting and keep pushing. Ozzie isn't just my hero, He's my family. He canceled rock Werchter he flew to Birmingham. The band assembled for changes was Extraordinary young Blood on vocals, Nuno Bettencourt Extreme on guitar, Frank Bellow Anthrax on bass, Adam Wakeman, Ozzie's longtime keyboardist on keys, two from Sleep Token on drums, six generations of rock musicians coming together to honor one man. Before the show, young Blood gave Ozzie a gift, a sterling silver and gold cross necklace set with diamonds. I made you something, young Blood said. He was returning the favor.

11:44 Ozzie had given him a cross, now he was giving one back. The moment was captured on video, Ozzie frail but smiling, accepting the gift. Young Blood later said, I knew it was going to be a tough audience for me because it was all metal heads, and a lot of people did not think I had the right to be there. He was right to be nervous. When young Blood walked on stage at Villa Park in front of forty thousand Black Sabbath fans, many were skeptical, who was this kid? Why was he here? This was Ozzie's night. Then the piano started. Young Blood's voice filled the stadium, raw, vulnerable, honest, I am going on downhill roads. Slash, your tears are adding to the c slash, listen to the rain slash, don't give me those things I can't resist. The audience went quiet listening. The performance was stripped down, no pyrotechnics, no gimmicks, just five musicians and one voice delivering a song about loss and change and the passage of time.

12:50 By the end, grown men and women in the crowd were crying. Brian May from Queen sent young Blood a message afterward. The silence from those people was deafening. That's the highest compliment a performer can receive. Silence from a metal crowd means you've earned their respect. They're actually listening. The Guardian called it sincere and passionate, saying Youngblood was compelling a whole stadium sing along. Louder Sound wrote Youngblood might be a surprising addition, but his colossal take on Sabbath ballad Changes sets Villa Park alight. Fans on Reddit agreed. One wrote his cover of Changes was simply amazing and was a highlight of the concert. Preazzi and Black Sabbath's performances.

13:38 Another I was honestly blown away by this performance. I can only hope enough people who like Youngblood see this and decide to check out Sabbath. Someone called it the best vocal performance of the day. Young Blood had done it. He'd brought the house down with a ballad, just like he said he would. After all the supporting acts, Ozzie performed his solo set with his touring band. Then came the moment everyone had waited decades for the original Black Sabbath lineup together one final time. The concert was streamed worldwide via pay per view. It became the highest grossing charity concert in history. Seventeen days later, on July twenty second, twenty twenty five, Ozzy Osbourne died at age seventy six.

14:26 The cause of death out. Of hospital cardiac arrest resulting from acute myocardial infarction, heart attack, with coronary artery disease and Parkinson's disease listed as contributing factors. The rock world was devastated. Young Blood posted on Instagram. I didn't think you would leave so soon. The last time we met, you were so full of life and your laugh filled up the room. But as it is written with legends, they seem to know the things that we don't, he continued, I will never forget you. You will be in every. Single note I sing, and and with me every single time I walk on stage. Your cross around my neck is the most precious thing I own. You asked me once if there was anything you could do for me, and as I said then and as I will say now, for all of us, the music was enough. You took us on your adventure, an adventure that started it all.

15:18 I am truly heartbroken. You were the greatest of all time. On July eighteenth, twenty twenty five, four days before Ozzie's death, Young Blood released Changes Live from Villa Park Back to the Beginning as a charity single. All proceeds went to three charities, Acorn's Children's Hospice, Birmingham Children's Hospital and Cure Parkinson's. The performance was everything, the emotion, the context, the fact that it was Ozzie's final show, the all star band, the forty thousand people witnessing history. On November seventh, twenty twenty five, the Grammy nominations were announced. Young Blood received three nominations Best Rock Performance for Changes Live from Villa Park Back to the Beginning, Best Rock Album for Idols Best Rock Song for Zombie, Sharon Osbourne posted on Instagram.

16:16 I'm so proud of you. It's just amazing, and I know Ozzy is smiling down at you. Love you always. Sharon young Blood responded, they've nominated Changes at Villa Park for Best Rock Performance at the Grammys, Idols for Best Rock Album and Zombie for Best Rock Song. Thank you to you and your family for giving me the opportunity you did and your stage to show the world what I could do. Thank you for teaching us all how to dream and never compromise. From one madman from England to another. I love you, Oz, and I hope one day I can show you how much the Best Rock Performance category was stacked. Young Blood Changes Live from Villa Park back to the beginning, Ammil and the Sniffers. You should not be doing that, Lincoln Park, the Emptiness Machine, Turnstile never enough, Hayley Williams, Mertzapine. On February first, twenty twenty six, at the Grammys, Young Blood one Sharon Osbourne joined him on stage to accept, along with Nuno Bettencourt, Frank Bellow, and Adam Wakeman. In his speech, young Blood thanked the Osbourne family, Sharon, Jack, Kelly, and Amy. He thanked everyone at the back to the beginning show. The

17:46 whole band with me right now are six generations who came together in the name of our genre, in the name of Sabbath, and the name of Ozzy Osbourne. He dedicated the award to everyone in the guitar shop that I grew up in, and everyone in a guitar shop or a bedroom with a dream. Then he shared something personal. The last time I saw Ozzy Osbourne, you ask if there's. Anything you could do for me. I answered, the music was enough, and I can safely say on behalf of all of us that still stands now and will forever. You'll be with me every time I'm nervous and on stage at every show. He ended with God bless rock music and God bless fucking Ozzy Osbourne.

18:30 The room erupted. That same night, during the televised portion of the Grammys, there was an Ozzy tribute. Post Malone performed Warpigs with Slash, Duff mccagan, Chad Smith, and Andrew Watt. The cameras cut repeatedly to Sharon, Kelly and Jack, visibly emotional as they watch the industry say goodbye. Young Blood's Grammy win meant something specific. It validated his performance in front of those skeptical metal heads. It said you earned this, you proved yourself. You honored Ozzy the right way. But the win also sparked controversy. Not everyone was happy about young Blood's prominence and Ozzie tributes. After his MTV Video Music Awards performance in September twenty twenty five, where he performed with Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and Nuno Bettencourt, The Darkness front man Justin Hawkins criticized him, calling him a TV personality doing rock.

19:25 Young Blood fired back on Jack Osborne's podcast Trying Not to Die. I think the strangest thing about that was all I was trying to do was my best for your. Old man, because he gave me such a gift. When people try and intellectualize a sense of spirit and six musicians on a stage going fuck, I love you man, it's just bitter and jealous. They are doing the things they say we are doing. They're trying to insert themselves into a conversation to obtain some kind of relevancy on the back of us honoring one of the greatest rock stars that ever lived. And then they talk about authoruthenticity and stuff like that. Jack Osborne defended young Blood. These people didn't fucking know how involved he was in Ozzie's life.

20:09 And that's the thing. Young Blood wasn't just some random artist doing a cover. He had a real relationship with Ozzy. They talked, they confided in each other. Ozzi mentored him during their final meeting before the Villa Park concert. Ozzy told young Blood to conquer America. He was passing the torch. Sammy Hagar, former Van Halen frontman, became a believer after seeing the Villa Park performance on November tenth, twenty twenty five. He told NME I saw him at Ozzy Osbourne's Back to the Beginning singing Changes, and I became a huge fan overnight. He was on earlier than me and killed it.

20:49 When he came off stage, I joked, hey, dude, you can't do that to an old guy like me. Have some respect. Hagar called young Blood the next superstar on this planet. The Grammy win for Changes is significant for several reasons. First, it rewards emotional bravery. Young Blood could have played it safe. He could have done an aggressive sabbath track, something that would pump up the metal heads. Instead, he chose the vulnerable ballad and nailed it. Second, it validates mentorship. Ozzy saw something in Young Blood, that same unfiltered energy, that refusal to compromise, that madness that people don't understand until later. The Grammy is proof that Ozzie's faith was justified. Third, it marks a generational shift in rock.

21:38 Young Blood represents something new, pan sexual, emotionally open, genre fluid, politically outspoken. He's not trying to be Ozzy, but he carries forward that spirit of uncompromising authenticity. Idols Young Blood's album is about exactly this, about worshiping your heroes, learning from them, and then becomes yourself. He wrote songs about his heroes, only to find himself embraced by those legends in real life. Idols Young Blood's album is about exactly this, about worshiping your heroes, learning from them, and then becoming yourself. He wrote songs about his heroes, only to find himself embraced by those legends in real life.

22:20 Ozzy Aerosmith. He recorded an entire. Ep with them, Smashing Pumpkins, Dave Grohl, Mick Jagger. The album title is a self fulfilling prophecy. Young Blood has been criticized for his flamboyance, his openness about sexuality and mental health, his refusal to stay in one genre. Some say he's not real rock. That he's too pop, too hip hop, too much, but that's exactly what they said about Ozzie in nineteen seventy. Too weird, too dark, too much. Time always tells young Blood is also walking the walk beyond just performing. In twenty twenty five, he started Bloodfest, a music festival designed to make rock accessible in an era of overpriced concerts. Tickets were sixty five pounds to one hundred and twenty five pounds instead of the typical eight hundred pounds. I can't play a festival that's eight hundred pounds a ticket, he told the BBC. He wanted to create a movement, a family, and a space where individuality thrives. That's very Ozzy, very punk, very rock and roll.

23:28 The documentary Ozzy Osbourne No Escape From Now, released on Paramount Plus in October twenty twenty five, documented Ozzy's final six years, including preparation for the Back to the Beginning Concert, a concert film back to the beginning. Ozzy's Final Bow is set for theatrical release in twenty twenty six via Mercury Studios. These films will preserve the moment. Future generations will watch a twenty seven year old punk rocker silence forty thousand metal heads with a Black Sabbath ballad at Ozzy Osbourne's final concert, and they'll see the Grammy winner that performance became at twenty seven. Young Blood Dominic Harrison from Doncaster has achieved what many artists never do here in the respect of the old guard, while bringing something new to the table. He's got three number one UK albums, a Billboard two hundred number one, three Grammy nominations, one Grammy win. But more importantly, he had a mentor who believed in him, who told him to never compromise, who gave him across and told him to keep being himself even when people didn't understand.

24:39 Changes. The Black Sabbath song young Blood covered is about loss and the passage of time, about how everything changes, how nothing stays the same. Ozzy is gone, the Prince of Darkness, the godfather of heavy metal, the man who bit the head off a bat and somehow became a beloved family sitcom star, but his legacy continues in the artist he inspired and Youngblood, who wears Ozzy's cross and carries forward that message don't compromise, don't censor yourself. Let people hate you until they love you. Time always tells. When young Blood stood on that Grammy stage with Sharon Osbourne beside him holding that golden Gramophone, it wasn't just about a great performance. It was about passing the torch, about honoring your heroes, about proving to the doubters that you belong.

25:31 It was about a kid from Doncaster who grew up being called too much, finding a mentor who said, never apologize for anything. It was about music as family, as legacy, as the thing that connects us across generations. At the end of his Grammy speech, young Blood said, the music was enough. That's what he told Ozzy and it's what he tells us now. The music is enough. From a football stadium in Birmingham to the Grammys in Los Angeles, from a young punk with ADHD to a Grammy winning rock star, from a skeptical metal audience to a standing ovation. That's the journey, that's the story, that's what happens when you trust yourself, honor your heroes, and bring the house down with a ballad when everyone expects.

26:18 You to scream. Young Blood and Changes. Best Rock Performance Grammy winner Ozzie's Final Blessing, God Bless rock music and God Bless fucking Ozzy Osbourne. That's our Grammy winner. Spotlight on Young Blood's changes. Sometimes the quietest songs hit the hardest. Sometimes proving yourself means taking the biggest risk, and sometimes the torch gets pasted at a farewell concert seventeen days before the legend dies. I'm Garrett Fisher. Never compromise.