{"id":286725,"date":"2025-07-24T02:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T02:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/286725\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T02:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T02:07:10","slug":"watch-the-city-of-birmingham-symphony-orchestra-perform-an-epic-public-tribute-to-ozzy-osbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/286725\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra perform an epic public tribute to Ozzy Osbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra<\/a> have paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>, whose death was announced yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The orchestra performed the epic, self-titled opener from Black Sabbath<\/a>‘s debut album, as orchestrated by Christopher Austin for the Birmingham Royal Ballet production of Black Sabbath – The Ballet. The tribute took place at the city’s New Street Station, beneath Ozzy the Bull<\/a>, the giant mechanical beast built for the 2022 Commonwealth Games and now on permanent display at the station.<\/p>\n

“We were all greatly saddened to hear of the passing of Ozzy Osbourne last night,” say the Orchestra’s social media team<\/a>. “Our thoughts go out to his family, loved ones, friends and fans. Ozzy was a one-off, and his music legacy will live in the hearts of the people of Birmingham forever.<\/p>\n

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“This afternoon, we were honoured to perform a Black Sabbath song in tribute to Ozzy at our New Street station performance. Musicians to musician, this is our way of paying our respects to one of Birmingham\u2019s all-time greats.”<\/p>\n

The performance was filmed by Sabbath fan Charlotte Heath-Kelly, who shared the video on the Back To The Beginning – Black Sabbath’s Final Concert Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“As soon as I arrived in New Street station, a full orchestra was playing Black Sabbath from the first album under Ozzy the bull,” says Heath-Kelly. “Respect Birmingham!”<\/p>\n

In the wake of Ozzy’s death, tributes came from across the globe<\/a>, from musicians, media organisations, politicians, Hollywood stars, sports franchises and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra have paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, whose death was announced yesterday. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-286725","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\/114905772407204258","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286725","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=286725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}