{"id":264372,"date":"2025-07-23T18:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/how-ozzy-osbourne-made-birmingham-the-birthplace-of-metal\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T18:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:00:42","slug":"how-ozzy-osbourne-made-birmingham-the-birthplace-of-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/how-ozzy-osbourne-made-birmingham-the-birthplace-of-metal\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ozzy Osbourne made Birmingham the birthplace of metal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/EkrXyzGdZj8\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"How Ozzy Osbourne made Birmingham the birthplace of metal\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EkrXyzGdZj8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Ozzy Osbourne made a musical genre. For millions of metal fans, Ozzy and Black Sabbath came up with the sound which influenced countless others.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHeavy metal will always be linked with Birmingham \u2013 Ozzy&#8217;s home city, where he returned to perform in early July.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOn this Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson looks at how a working-class lad from Aston became a cultural icon and gave the city its own musical identity.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNiall speaks to Sky News entertainment reporter Gemma Peplow who covered the &quot;Back To Beginning&quot; gig and to Jez Collins, a historian at the Birmingham Music Archive.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nProducer: Emma Rae Woodhouse\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nEditor: Paul Stanworth\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ozzy Osbourne made a musical genre. 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