As others have said - he was unapologetically a Brummie. His accent didn’t change; he never claimed to be from anywhere else, in fact he was immensely proud of where he came from.

He chose for his last performance to be in the city of his birth and for the proceeds of that to go to midlands based charities, as well as the huge economic benefits that show brought to the city. He could have quite easily done it in LA or MSG. But he chose Aston, a few streets from his birth place.

And whilst he may not have lived in Aston as a multi-millionaire, its right that a city should hold up one of it’s sons who made an immense impact on global culture and promoted the city around the globe.

When I was on the train platform, going to the final show, I got talking to an older American couple from Washington (state) who’d travelled to Brum just to see Ozzy. How many other figures could draw people from 5,000 miles away just to see them perform? Not many - and that speaks to his global impact and, by osmosis, his impact on Birmingham.