{"id":285703,"date":"2025-07-23T17:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/285703\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T17:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:05:09","slug":"how-ozzy-osbourne-made-birmingham-the-birthplace-of-metal-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/285703\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ozzy Osbourne made Birmingham the birthplace of metal | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/sky-news-daily\/id951048357\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\ud83d\udc49\u202fListen to Sky News\u202fDaily\u202fon your podcast app\u202f\ud83d\udc48<\/a>\u202f\u202f    <\/p>\n<p>Ozzy Osbourne made a musical genre. For millions of metal fans, Ozzy and Black Sabbath came up with the sound which influenced countless others.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy metal will always be linked with Birmingham &#8211; Ozzy&#8217;s home city, where he returned to perform in early July.<\/p>\n<p>On this Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson looks at how a working-class lad from Aston became a cultural icon and gave the city its own musical identity.<\/p>\n<p>Niall speaks to Sky News entertainment reporter Gemma Peplow who covered the Back To Beginning gig and to Jez Collins, a historian at the Birmingham Music Archive.<\/p>\n<p>Producer: Emma Rae Woodhouse<\/p>\n<p>Editor: Paul Stanworth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udc49\u202fListen to Sky News\u202fDaily\u202fon your podcast app\u202f\ud83d\udc48\u202f\u202f Ozzy Osbourne made a musical genre. For millions of metal fans,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-285703","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-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114903641915695676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285703","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=285703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}