{"id":67784,"date":"2025-08-14T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67784\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T01:00:09","slug":"prince-of-darkness-ozzy-osbourne-features-on-artists-bank-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67784\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne features on artist&#8217;s bank notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A set of Ozzy Osbourne-themed bank notes has been created as a tribute to the heavy metal legend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Artist Dion Kitson has designed and hand cut 1,000 of the notes in memory of Ozzy, who died aged 76 on 22 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Prince Of Darkness &#8220;replaces&#8221; the King on the \u00a35, \u00a310, \u00a320 and \u00a350 notes, which are available for sale with 30% of proceeds going to the Parkinson&#8217;s UK charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Mr Kitson, from Dudley, says: &#8220;It was quite emotional, just after his passing, having to select all these images, and go through all these details of his life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">All the notes have different images of Ozzy, and also feature other moments from his life including band mates, bats, and the Aston factories he grew up around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;My favourite little bit, is there is an angel on the 20, which is giving Tony Iommi a guitar, just some really tiny details,&#8221; continued Mr Kitson. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;Heavy metal, the industry, the Black Country and Birmingham, it created its own genre, I think it needs to be spoken about more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;I&#8217;m an artist, that uses all sorts of mediums. It wasn&#8217;t easy by any means using Photoshop, I didn&#8217;t sleep for three days making these.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A set of Ozzy Osbourne-themed bank notes has been created as a tribute to the heavy metal legend.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-67784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}