{"id":304451,"date":"2025-07-30T17:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/304451\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:27:13","slug":"ozzy-osbournes-birmingham-funeral-photo-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/304451\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzy Osbourne&#8217;s Birmingham Funeral Photo Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tBat out of Hell<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2227003455.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Fans gathering at the Black Sabbath Bridge bench on Broad Street in Birmingham in memory of Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne, ahead of his body brought back to his home city for a procession following his death last week aged 76. Picture date: Wednesday July 30, 2025. (Photo by Jacob King\/PA Images via Getty Images)\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Jacob King\/PA Images\/Getty Images\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A fan holds up a stuffed, Ozzy-branded bat, likely a nod to the infamous night he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ozzy-osbourne-bites-head-off-bat-anniversary-1287867\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accidentally bit the head off<\/a> a real bat during a show. In 2002, Osbourne joked to Rolling Stone: \u201cI guarantee that if I was to die tonight, tomorrow it would be, \u2018Ozzy Osbourne, the man who bit the head off a bat, died in his hotel room\u2026\u2019 I know that\u2019s coming. But I\u2019ve got no complaints. At least I\u2019ll be remembered.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bat out of Hell Image Credit: Jacob King\/PA Images\/Getty Images A fan holds up a stuffed, Ozzy-branded bat,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,19160,748,393,4884,29260,38260,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-304451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-black-sabbath","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-ozzy-osbourne","14":"tag-photo-gallery","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114943364038804278","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304451","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=304451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}