{"id":303404,"date":"2025-07-30T08:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303404\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T08:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:07:10","slug":"fans-gather-to-watch-ozzy-osbourne-take-his-final-trip-through-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303404\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans gather to watch Ozzy Osbourne take his final trip through Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bostin’ Brass: ‘We’re going to play a fitting tribute’published at 08:26 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

08:26 BST<\/p>\n

Ozzy’s cortege will be led by Birmingham band Bostin’ Brass.<\/p>\n

They played at an event at New Street Station when Ozzy the mechanical bull, created for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, was unveiled by Sharon Osbourne at his new home.<\/a><\/p>\n

Band leader Aaron Diaz says he is both nervous and honoured to be taking part.<\/p>\n

\"Bostin<\/p>\n

“It’s certainly high pressure,” the trumpet player said, adding, “you do feel a weight of responsibility.”<\/p>\n

“In the last couple of days it’s been amazing the sentiment the city feels towards Ozzy, the pride – he’s one of Birmingham’s own,” he said. <\/p>\n

“We’re really going to enjoy playing a fitting tribute to him and being part of the crowd of thousands that’s going to turn out on the day.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bostin’ Brass: ‘We’re going to play a fitting tribute’published at 08:26 British Summer Time 08:26 BST Ozzy’s cortege…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-303404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114941161950314711","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303404","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=303404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}