{"id":705707,"date":"2026-07-22T18:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705707\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T18:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:46:10","slug":"city-celebrates-ozzy-day-on-anniversary-of-ozzy-osbournes-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705707\/","title":{"rendered":"City celebrates Ozzy Day on anniversary of Ozzy Osbourne&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cd7lnl9jzgyo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an interview with the BBC<\/a>, Sharon Osbourne said she wanted fans to remember her husband by playing his music &#8220;really loud&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi has also paid tribute on social media, saying: &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s now a year since Ozzy&#8217;s passing and I still can&#8217;t believe that he&#8217;s not with us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I watch him on YouTube and it feels like he&#8217;s still here with us. We always stayed in touch, almost every week or so and we&#8217;d usually talk about our ailments and then about what we&#8217;d been doing that particular week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The fans have been absolutely brilliant and the love and respect that they have shown for him has just been amazing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m so glad that we were able to play one final show with the original line up of Sabbath at the Back To The Beginning show in our home town of Birmingham! <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There will never be another Ozzy. I miss you my dear friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an interview with the BBC, Sharon Osbourne said she wanted fans to remember her husband by playing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-705707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705707","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=705707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}