Birmingham, England (AP) – Fans of Ozi Osbourne Finally felt that it was near.
A few weeks ago in their last show, fans saw heavy metal icon performance while sitting on a black throne and knew that it would be seen for the last time. Head singer of Black SabbathHe died on Tuesday at the age of 76.
So on Wednesday, he was a little surprised as he pilgrimaged the sites around Birmingham, which is the city in Central England, where Osborne grew up and the band was formed.
Outside the Crown Pub, where Black Sabbath described his first gig, 59 -year -old Daria Debono, and Stephen Wolland, 32, the Bond of New York, The Bond described the bond with his fans during that farewell show at the city’s Villa Park Stadium. Even though he remained sitting completely, the man named the prince of the prince in the hug of the crowd, he said.
“It is such that he is what he was living, this is what he was keeping himself alive, for that last magnificent moment of love,” said Debuno. “And being in the crowd, you can feel love in the arena that day. It was just very emotional.”
Woland fulfilled his view.
“When I was watching the show, I told him,” This is like a living monument he enjoys, “he said. “All this hard work and everyone is here for him. I felt that it is a good thing that after knowing that it was happening very soon.”
Native Reunion for the first time On July 5, he will have the last concert for what Osborne said in 20 years. Osbourne revealed Parkinson’s disease in 2019.
“Let the madness begin!” He said 42,000 fans were packed in Villa Park as the show was going on.
On Wednesday, Birmingham sites were connected to Black Sabbath, for the fans of the band’s front man, who made a second career as a star Reality TV show “The Osbornness.”
They gathered around the bull at the Birmingham New Street Station, designed for the 2022 Commonwealth Games and are known as Ozy. And he portrayed a mural on the Navigation Street, which was painted in honor of Black Sabbath’s farewell concert.
“He is one of us.” “There is a large amount of pride – he was forged from this place and put this place on the map, and everyone could belong to it.”
But the biggest draw was Black Sabbath bench, where fans can take selfies with life-shaped images of four band members.
The bench, which was unveiled at the Broad Street Canal Bridge in 2019, is surrounded by a tribute to Osbourne.
“I think it’s so beautiful that he met to finish and fulfill his wish before it finally passed,” said 36 -year -old Matthew Caldwell of Starbridge, west of Birmingham. “Very sad but incredible.”
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Kirka reported from London.
Lorna Petty and Danica Kira, Associated Press