Liverpool John Lennon Airport, George Best Belfast City Airport, Louis Armstrong Airport and even JFK in New York, we are not short of airports being named after famous people.<\/p>\n
Should Birmingham follow suit?<\/p>\n
Well, more than 58,000 people have backed a petition calling for Birmingham Airport to be renamed as the “Ozzy Osbourne International”.<\/p>\n
Dan Hudson, who started it, said the change would be a fitting tribute to his extraordinary career and contributions to the arts.<\/p>\n
“If you look at other places around the world that have musical scenes that have started in those cities, like Nashville or Memphis or LA or Detroit or Chicago, they don’t shut up about the fact that those musical scenes have sprung out of those areas,” he told the BBC.<\/p>\n
“We don’t do that here in Birmingham, and I don’t know why that is and I think that needs to change – a great way of doing that will be to rename the airport.”<\/p>\n
While not ruled out by managers at the airport, the idea has not so far had a thumbs up from them – a spokesperson saying instead that the rock legend was “an inspiration to so many in our region”. <\/p>\n
“In coming weeks, we will be looking at how we can celebrate his heritage and contribution to the region via terminal artwork, creating a greater sense of place for Birmingham and his fans,” they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool John Lennon Airport, George Best Belfast City Airport, Louis Armstrong Airport and even JFK in New York,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-313656","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\/114963021028020315","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313656","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=313656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}