{"id":283494,"date":"2025-07-22T21:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/283494\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T21:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:19:12","slug":"ozzy-osbourne-fans-flock-to-black-sabbath-bench-as-one-says-icon-held-on-for-villa-park-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/283494\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzy Osbourne fans flock to Black Sabbath bench as one says icon ‘held on for Villa Park gig’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flowers left at Broad Street landmark as tributes paid to Black Sabbath legend who has died aged 76<\/p>\n

20:07, 22 Jul 2025Updated 20:26, 22 Jul 2025<\/p>\n

Flowers were tonight laid in memory of Birmingham’s most iconic metal legend at the city’s very own Black Sabbath bench.<\/p>\n

Fans converged on the Broad Street<\/a> landmark within minutes of news that Ozzy Osbourne had died at 76, just days after he returned to his home city for the last time for a giant celebration of Black Sabbath’s legacy.<\/p>\n

Gerard Fee, who was visiting friends in Birmingham<\/a> from Northern Ireland, made an immediate pilgrimage to the bench after hearing the news.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Ozzy Osbourne dead at 76 – updates and reaction<\/a><\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIt\u2019s very sad, he\u2019s such an icon. I think he held on for the Birmingham event, and that was what he wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yasmine Summan lays flowers at the Black Sabbath bench tonight.<\/p>\n

Yasmine Summan, who lives locally and wanted to pay tribute, turned up with her friend Georgia to lay flowers on the bench.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cI\u2019m a metal fan and he meant a lot to this city. I saw him at Download a few years ago and he was amazing. We didn\u2019t manage to get tickets for the big concert but we had a bar crawl and played their music. Such a sad loss.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gerard Fee was visiting friends from Northern Ireland and headed straight for the bench.<\/p>\n

Celebrities from across the world were also paying their respects after Osbourne’s family revealed his death in a short statement tonight.<\/p>\n

Rolling Stones star Ronnie Wood, who was at the Villa Park concert earlier this month, said he was \u201cvery sad\u201d.<\/p>\n

He posted on X: \u201cI am so very sad to hear of the death of Ozzy Osbourne.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a lovely goodbye concert he had at Back To The Beginning in Birmingham.\u201d<\/p>\n

And UB0’s Ali Campbell said: \u201cYou didn\u2019t just shape a culture, you defined it. You led from the front and never looked back.<\/p>\n

“My thoughts are with Sharon and the entire Osbourne family during this time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flowers left at Broad Street landmark as tributes paid to Black Sabbath legend who has died aged 76…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,29260,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-283494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-ozzy-osbourne","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114898978230796393","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}