Osbourne household collect to grant Ozzy his unimaginable ultimate want in grounds of UK mansion
Music legend Ozzy Osbourne was laid to relaxation at this time (31 July) within the grounds of his UK mansion, as his household honoured his ultimate want.
A procession made its manner by means of Birmingham yesterday (30 July), and hundreds of individuals lined the streets to bid one ultimate farewell to the Prince of Darkness.
Following that emotional show stuffed with tributes, Ozzy’s physique was buried in a non-public ceremony attended by his household and mates held at his residence in Buckinghamshire.
The rock star had made it clear how he’d wish to be buried, laying out in his autobiography I Am Ozzy his ideas on what he wished to occur to his physique.
“I’ve stated to Sharon: ‘Do not cremate me, no matter you do?’ I wish to be put within the floor, in a pleasant backyard someplace, with a tree planted over my head,” the rock singer had stated.
“A crabapple tree, ideally, so the children could make wine out of me and get p**sed out of their heads.”
As such, his burial within the backyard of his residence would have been precisely what he hoped for.
His household had beforehand fulfilled one other one among his requests by transferring again to the UK earlier than he died; Ozzy had stated that, after many years residing within the US, he wished to return to England.
Elsewhere in his 2009 autobiography, Ozzy additionally recommended the inscription for his headstone.
He wrote: “As for what they will placed on my gravestone, I ain’t beneath any illusions.
“If I shut my eyes, I can already see it: Ozzy Osbourne, born 1948. Died, every time. He bit the pinnacle off a bat.”
Whereas Ozzy wrote that he suspected he’d ‘exit in some silly manner’ comparable to tripping over, choking ‘on a throat lozenge’, or catching ‘some bizarre virus from one other planet’ from a chook, his household stated he truly handed away ‘surrounded by love’.
Ozzy had additionally stated he did not need his funeral to be a ‘mope fest’, and whereas his household’s grief at shedding him was obvious, the general public procession featured music as a brass band performed as they accompanied his hearse.
The person himself made some solutions as to the songs he’d need at his funeral, having stated he ‘undoubtedly don’t desire my f**king biggest hits album’, and likewise did not need ‘a f**king completely satisfied tune’.
A lifelong Beatles fan, Ozzy recommended he’d fairly like their tune ‘A Day In The Life’.
In 2016, he instructed NME: “I actually need a number of extra years to suppose this over, however in all probability one thing from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Membership Band or Revolver.”
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