{"id":35262,"date":"2025-07-31T07:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/35262\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T07:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:21:08","slug":"birmingham-takes-the-osbournes-to-its-heart-at-ozzys-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/35262\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham takes the Osbournes to its heart at Ozzy’s farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Osbourne’s devoted wife of 40 years was accompanied by family members including the couple’s children, Aimee, Kelly and Jack, who were seen gazing over the piles of flowers, gifts and messages and raising their hands in a peace sign while paying their respects.<\/p>\n

Former X Factor judge Sharon, 72, was also spotted hugging the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Zafar Iqbal, after she arrived at the Black Sabbath bench.<\/p>\n

Birmingham-born Ozzy, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease<\/a> in 2019, died on 22 July<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The ever growing sea of flowers and tributes since his death indicated crowds would be big and tens of thousands turned up, travelling hundreds of miles from across the country with some from as far away as the USA, Mexico and Spain.<\/p>\n

One couple spoke of how their lives were forever changed by the singer’s legacy, having named their nine-year-old son after him.<\/a><\/p>\n

Some people even told the BBC they had taken the day off work on Wednesday, just to watch the procession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Osbourne’s devoted wife of 40 years was accompanied by family members including the couple’s children, Aimee, Kelly and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-35262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35262","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=35262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}