{"id":298628,"date":"2025-07-28T13:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298628\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T13:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:59:10","slug":"ozzy-osbourne-tributes-grow-as-thousands-flock-to-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298628\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzy Osbourne tributes grow as thousands flock to Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It started off as a joke really,&#8221; Tom said. &#8220;We couldn&#8217;t agree on a name and we just kept coming back to Ozzy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was the literal greatest metal frontman of all time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The family, from Preston, Lancashire, were travelling home from London when they stopped off in Birmingham to lay flowers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cj0m5rypjzzo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at the bridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To the flowers, they added a written message, Tom, 43, said. &#8220;Thank you for showing the world that it is possible to come from virtually nothing, from humble working class beginnings, and live life on your own terms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kellie described Osbourne as a &#8220;lovable maniac&#8221; who was funny and humble and had loved his family and fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was mad but I think that&#8217;s what took him from being the godfather of metal to being a national treasure,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Others&#8217; pilgrimages involved much longer distances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It started off as a joke really,&#8221; Tom said. &#8220;We couldn&#8217;t agree on a name and we just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-298628","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\/114931221442359242","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298628","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=298628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}