Sharon Osbourne (widow) and Kelly Osbourne (daughter) used their social media accounts to post tributes to Ozzy Osbourne on what would have been the singer's 77th birthday.
The family of the late Prince of Darkness posted images of a memorial with flowers spelling out "Happy Birthday, Ozzy" on Black Sabbath Bridge in Birmingham. In her post, Sharon kept it brief but with an emotional tone in the caption: "My darling husband, I celebrate the day you were born. I will never stop holding your hand until the day I meet you on the other side."
Kelly Osbourne has already made a series of posts in tribute to her father and openly expressed her feelings of longing: “Happy birthday, Dad. You certainly didn’t die like an ordinary man! Life without you is hard, but I don’t go a single day without dedicating my life to loving you and your legacy! I miss you more than anything in the world. I love you eternally! I would give anything to see you blow out just one more candle.”
Ozzy Osbourne passed away at the age of 76 on July 22nd, a few weeks after Black Sabbath Back to the Beginning event .
Birmingham Museum also paid tribute to Ozzy.
The British Museum & Art Gallery also took the opportunity to pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne. The museum has a wing containing the Working Class Hero exhibition, dedicated to the singer.
For Ozzy's birthday, a mural was added to the front door with randomly selected messages left by fans from around Birmingham and the world.
“To celebrate what would have been Ozzy Osbourne’s 77th birthday today, we have installed a mural in his honor at the “Working Class Hero” exhibition at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. It features 77 messages of love for Ozzy, randomly selected from over 50,000 tributes left by his fans in Birmingham and around the world, which have been carefully preserved. Hundreds of other messages are also being displayed on a digital screen, and all tributes have already been delivered to the Osbourne family. Happy birthday, Ozzy,” the museum wrote.
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