The founding members of Black Sabbath are set to receive the Freedom of Birmingham.
Sharon Osbourne has welcomed news her husband Ozzy Osbourne and his Black Sabbath bandmates are set to receive the Freedom of Birmingham.
Later on Tuesday, Birmingham City Council will discuss a proposal to award City Freeman status to the four founding members of the band, which formed in Aston in 1968.Black Sabbath was founded by singer Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Terence "Geezer" Butler and drummer Bill Ward. Despite the pair living in America for many years, Mrs Osbourne said that Ozzy still saw Birmingham as his home, and that people would be seeing him in the city at some point."Each time we make arrangements to come, something happens that he can't do it, and he's desperate to come home."
"It seems like a dream sometimes," she said. "It changes everything, your life changes in a second and what was has gone and you just have to live in the moment."Jim Simpson, the first manager of Black Sabbath, also welcomed the news.He looked after the band when they changed their name from Earth, and once campaigned to have Birmingham Airport renamed after Osbourne.
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