Overview

• Fans lined Broad Street on July 30 to accompany Ozzy Osbourne’s funeral cortege, culminating at the Black Sabbath Bridge where Sharon, Jack and Kelly Osbourne viewed thousands of floral tributes
• The procession, planned by Birmingham City Council and the Osbourne family, featured a live performance by local band Bostin’ Brass and drew an estimated tens of thousands of mourners
• Since Osbourne’s July 22 death at age 76, the Black Sabbath Bridge and bench have become impromptu memorials covered in flowers, handwritten notes and personal mementos
• Earlier this week, Johnny Depp joined Alice Cooper at London’s O2 Arena to perform “Paranoid” in tribute, and Geezer Butler published an emotional 57-year friendship memoir in The Sunday Times
• Proceeds from the July 5 “Back to the Beginning” benefit concert at Villa Park have now been fully distributed to Parkinson’s research and children’s charities as part of Osbourne’s philanthropic legacy