{"id":668434,"date":"2026-07-01T18:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668434\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T18:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:47:08","slug":"ozzy-osbournes-concert-throne-goes-on-display-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668434\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzy Osbourne&#8217;s concert throne goes on display in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The throne used by Ozzy Osbourne during his final live performance has gone on display at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The chair, which featured during the Back to the Beginning concert at Villa Park last summer as well as at Osbourne&#8217;s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, is now part of the museum&#8217;s Working Class Hero exhibition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The throne has been installed in a glass display case, showing its details including carved skulls, decorative feet and the built-in water cannon used during performances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne are synonymous with Birmingham. They&#8217;ve done so much for the city, and there&#8217;s so much love them in the city,&#8221; Jez Collins, from Birmingham Museum, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s iconic, it&#8217;s up there with things like the Flying Pig from Pink Floyd, it&#8217;s that level of iconic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve literally got goosebumps looking at it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The throne used by Ozzy Osbourne during his final live performance has gone on display at Birmingham Museum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-668434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668434","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=668434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}