Ozzy Osbourne latest: Cortege on the move as fans gather for public procession through Birmingham

Ed James
BBC Radio WM

Lee Clarke and his mum, Tracey, got the sleeper train from Plymouth to be in Birmingham today.

Lee booked the day off work, saying it was for a funeral.

“I decided long ago when it happened I would go, thought we’d get more notice,” he told BBC Radio WM.

“It’s pretty hard to be a metalhead and not like Ozzy Osbourne.

“All the other music, the other bands, they wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for him.”

Image source, Lee Clarke

Tracey said she became a fan in 2015 because of her son.

“It’s just feel the need to be here and show the family how
loved Ozzy was, I’m sure they know, but it’s just somewhere I felt I wanted to be
today.”

“He was an ordinary man, an extraordinary, ordinary man.”