{"id":360094,"date":"2025-08-20T18:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T18:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/360094\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T18:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T18:34:10","slug":"ozzy-osbournes-last-gig-with-black-sabbath-netted-33m-figures-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/360094\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzy Osbourne&#8217;s last gig with Black Sabbath netted \u00a333m, figures show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The impact of the Prince of Darkness obviously goes far beyond the financial impact his gigs and TV shows have netted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Ozzy is a global legend, and his gift of incredible music, and now his final economic impact, will go on to benefit his home city far into the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 42,000 tickets for the concert sold out in minutes, with 20% purchased by international fans, paying prices ranging from \u00a3197.50 to \u00a3834.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To estimate the economic impact of the concert, the researchers used the SEIM-UK (Socio-Economic Impact Model for the UK) model, a methodology used previously to estimate the impact of major events such as the Birmingham-hosted Commonwealth Games in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The concert would be Ozzy&#8217;s last public performance with his family announcing his death on 22 July. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thousands of fans later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn5ew3x3963o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lined Broad Street<\/a> in Birmingham as Ozzy&#8217;s funeral parade made its way to the Black Sabbath bench. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His coffin was followed by his family who looked at the floral tributes that were placed at the site, after stepping out of their funeral car. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The impact of the Prince of Darkness obviously goes far beyond the financial impact his gigs and TV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-360094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115062536066278994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360094","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=360094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}