Ozzy Osbourne will be honored in his home city Birmingham, England, with a day of festivities, music and film screenings exactly one year after the late metal icon’s passing.
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Ozzy Day will take over the U.K.’s second city on July 22 to commemorate the Black Sabbath singer and solo star. Osbourne died at his Buckinghamshire home following a heart attack at the age of 76 on July 22, 2025. Two weeks prior, Osbourne and his bandmates hosted the Back to the Beginning charity concert with an all-star cast at Villa Park, near his birthplace in Aston.
Organized by the Birmingham City Council and Outdoor Places Unusual Spaces, the city center will include “a free program of live music, public art, special performances and shared moments celebrating the life, legacy and Birmingham roots of the Prince of Darkness,” the city council announced.
Writing on its website, the council said that key locations in his upbringing and musical journey will be a part of the tribute, including the Black Sabbath Bench and Bridge, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham New Street Station, Bullring, Selfridges and Martineau Place.
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra will perform a special lunchtime performance at the Bullring shopping center, while the city’s train station will feature an Ozzy the Bull statue in reference to the city’s famous statue.
Bostin Brass, the brass band that accompanied Osbourne’s funeral procession in the city center last summer, will perform a number of pop-up performances across the city center. See the full program of the festivities on the city council’s website.
A number of specially commissioned digital films exploring Birmingham’s connection with its late hero will be released throughout the day, alongside a limited edition T-shirt that is available to purchase at Selfridges.
Earlier this year, his wife, Sharon, said that Ozzfest, the rocker’s touring festival, was set to return in 2027. “It was something Ozzy was very passionate about: giving young talent a stage in front of a lot of people,” she told Billboard. “We really started metal festivals in this country. It was [replicated but] never done with the spirit of what ours was, because ours was a place for new talent. It was like summer camp for kids.”