The event will take place on Wednesday, culminating at Black Sabbath bridge and bench, and featuring music from a local brass band<\/p>\n
\n\tOzzy Osbourne<\/a> will be honored<\/a> with a funeral procession, complete with a brass band, that will march through his hometown of Birmingham, England, this Wednesday, July 30.<\/p>\n \n\tThe procession will start at 1 p.m. local time, the Birmingham City Council said<\/a>, with a hearse carrying Osbourne\u2019s body through the streets of the city. The procession will end, fittingly, at the Black Sabbath<\/a> bridge and bench, which has become a memorial site for Osbourne in the week since his death. <\/p>\n \n\tMusic during the event will be provided by the local group, Bostin\u2019 Brass.\u00a0 And for those who can\u2019t attend, the live camera feed of the Black Sabbath bench<\/a> will be up and running as always.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe Osbourne family has also stepped in to help cover some of the costs associated with the event. The family has yet to announce details regarding Osbourne\u2019s private funeral.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tBirmingham\u2019s honorary lord mayor, Zafar Iqbal, issued a statement calling Osbourne \u201cmore than a music legend \u2014 he was a son of Birmingham,\u201d and adding: \u201c[I]t was important to the city that we support a fitting, dignified tribute ahead of a private family funeral. We know how much this moment will mean to his fans. We\u2019re proud to host it here with his loving family in the place where it all began, and we are grateful that they have generously offered to pay to enable this to happen and support the city is giving him the farewell he deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tOsbourne died<\/a> last Tuesday, July 22, at the age of 76, just weeks after his all-star farewell concert<\/a> in Birmingham. The concert featured performances from an array of metal greats<\/a>, including Metallica and Guns N\u2019 Roses, while Osbourne also performed for the last time<\/a> as both a solo artist<\/a> and with the original members of Black Sabbath.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The event will take place on Wednesday, culminating at Black Sabbath bridge and bench, and featuring music from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,6814,134,136,6815],"class_list":["post-30638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-black-sabbath","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-ozzy-osbourne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}