As famous Brummies go, they don’t get much more famous than Ozzy Osbourne.

The Prince Of Darkness was in the business for over 50 years, and while he lived the life of a rock star, touring the globe with Black Sabbath and being part of reality TV’s most infamous family, he never forgot where he came from.

A proud Birmingham native, Ozzy had fond memories of growing up in Aston in the north east of the city, as one of six children to his factory-worker mother and tool maker father.

As stars, former bandmates, and fans pay tribute to Osbourne, who died yesterday, ‘surrounded by love’ at the age of 76, we re-visit our 2018 interview with the rock legend, where he reveals how Birmingham shaped him and helped him achieve success as part of one of the world’s biggest heavy metal bands, and explains why his hometown was the perfect place for Black Sabbath’s 2017 End Tour.

The person who owns my childhood house rents my room out for £400 a night...

“My address was 14 Lodge Road, Aston, Birmingham, which was a little place - it’s still there!

“I’ve been back to that house a few times over the years and I can’t believe there were eight of us living in a two-and-a-half bedroom house. It is tiny! I have wardrobes bigger in my house.”

I went back 20 years ago, it was exactly the same - even the tiles...

“When I was a kid, my dad saved his pennies up for a bathroom, and it was done very dodgy. The damp course was really bad. He got these yellow and white tiles and they kept falling off, but it was his life’s ambition to get this damp thing under control. So when I went back to the house, it was exactly the same, but when I went into the bathroom, the tiles were still up! I thought, ‘you old bastard’.

“He was working on these bloody tiles forever and would get so pissed off........

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