{"id":26794,"date":"2025-07-27T08:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/26794\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T08:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:02:10","slug":"foghorn-on-legs-ian-paisley-won-ozzy-osbournes-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/26794\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Foghorn on legs\u2019 Ian Paisley won Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Frontman had sneaking admiration for DUP founder despite bid to ban gigs\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ozzy Osbourne at his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2024 (Photo by Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/e960e22f-25b9-4f14-8ee7-0041b22136d6.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ozzy Osbourne at his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2024 (Photo by Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ozzy Osbourne once brought Ian Paisley and members of the Free Presbyterian Church onto the streets of east Belfast in a bid to stop his \u201cevil\u201d concerts from going ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But the Black Sabbath frontman later said he had a sneaking admiration for the DUP founder, even though he described him as a \u201cfoghorn on legs\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frontman had sneaking admiration for DUP founder despite bid to ban gigs Ozzy Osbourne at his induction into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[16669,96,16670,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-26794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-democratic-unionist-party","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ivan-little","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}