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“Birmingham made my dad who he was”

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Kelly Osbourne at the Birmingham AwardsAuthor: Scott ColothanPublished 14 hours ago

Kelly Osbourne attended the 10th annual Birmingham Awards on Friday night (17th October) to receive her dad Ozzy’s posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award.

Accepting Ozzy Osbourne’s honour, Kelly delivered a deeply personal and heartfelt speech, saying: “Birmingham made my dad who he was.

“He never forgot where he came from, and this city was always in his heart. On behalf of our family, thank you for honouring him in the place he loved most.”

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Kelly Osbourne at the Birmingham Awards

Taking to Instagram on Saturday, Kelly shared photos of herself holding the Lifetime Achievement Award at Black Sabbath Bridge with her fiancé Sid Wilson.

“Last night I had the honour of accepting my father’s lifetime achievement award on his behalf at the @birminghamawards I can’t thank everyone enough for their love and support,” Kelly said.

“I know that my dad was shining down on us from heaven with pride because being a #Brummy meant more to him than anything. He loved the city and he loved the people. This honour would have meant the world to him. From the bottom of my heart thank you. #birminghamforever”

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Kelly Osbourne at the Birmingham Awards

Ozzy Osbourne and his five siblings were raised in a two-bedroom terraced house in Aston, just two miles away from Villa Park where Ozzy performed his final Back to the Beginning concert in on 5th July. The Prince of Darkness died 17 days later aged 76.

Organisers Ifraz Ahmed and Anita Chumber of B Events and founders of the Birmingham Awards, said: “It was amazing to have Kelly Osbourne with us to accept this honour.

“Ozzy’s impact on the world is immeasurable, but his roots will always be here in Birmingham. His legacy continues to inspire generations, and we are deeply proud to recognise his contribution to music, culture, and our city.”

Black Sabbath were also honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 10th Birmingham Awards ceremony.

Earlier this month, Ozzy Osbourne’s family visited the pumpkin mural of The Prince of Darkness made from over 10,000 squashes.

See Ozzy Osbourne’s childhood home in Birmingham:

Eddie and Alex Van Halen’s humble childhood home on Las Lunas Street in Pasadena, California. They moved to the property when their family emigrated from the Netherlands in 1962, and the brothers honed their musical craft in the garage at the rear of the property. Following Eddie Van Halen’s death in October 2020, the house became a shrine for Van Halen fans.

The youngest of eight siblings born in Scotland, Angus and Malcolm Young emigrated to Australia in 1963 with their parents William and Margaret and older brothers and sisters, including future AC/DC producer George. Initially living at the Villawood Migrant Hostel, in 1965 the Youngs moved to 4 Burleigh Street in the Sydney suburb of Burwood where Angus and Malcolm were raised. The brothers also formed AC/DC while living at the semi-detached house. Despite being added to Australia’s National Trust Register of Historic Houses in 2013, the house was “accidentally” demolished by developers in December 2024 to make way for a residential development.

Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott was born and raised at 61 Crookes Road in Sheffield. Ahead of Def Leppard’s homecoming gigs at The Leadmill and Bramall Lane in May 2023, Joe visited the property. He wrote: “The house I was born in, grew up in, met Sav & Tony Kenning for the very time in that upstairs room you can see above me …. Sigh …. Memories!!”

One of six children, Ozzy Osbourne spent his formative years in this small two-bedroom terraced house on Lodge Road in Aston. Ozzy told Huffington Post in 2014: “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.”

Now a lovingly restored Grade II listed building preserved by the National Trust, John Lennon lived at 251 Menlove Avenue in Liverpool with his Aunt Mimi from 1945 to 1963. It featured on the cover to Oasis single ‘Live Forever’ in 1994 and in 2000 it was adorned with an English Heritage blue plaque.

Sir Paul McCartney’s childhood home at 20 Forthlin Road in Allerton, south Liverpool. It became a listed building in 2012 and is owned by the National Trust. The Trust markets the house as “the birthplace of the Beatles” as it was where McCartney and Lennon penned the earliest Beatles songs.

Ringo Starr (aka Richard Starkey) spent his very early childhood years at a terraced house on Madryn Street in Liverpool but moved to at two-up, two-down house 10 Admiral Grove in Dingle when he was 3 with mum Elsie when his parents separated. He lived there for the next 20 years. Pictured is 10 Admiral Grove in 1964.

40 Stansfield Road in Brixton where a young David Jones – aka David Bowie – lived until he was six years old. The house became a shrine for Bowie when the music legend died in January 2016.

Kurt Cobain’s childhood home in Aberdeen, Washington. Nirvana fan Lee Bacon bought the house in 2018 for $225,000 (around £170,000) and told Rolling Stone: “My goal is to preserve and restore it for my generation and for my kids.”

Kurt Cobain’s Led Zeppelin graffiti is still on the walls in his attic bedroom.

The late rock and roll pioneer was brought up alongside his eleven siblings in this detached home in the Pleasant Hill neighbourhood of Macon, Georgia in the 1930s and 40s. Now named The Little Richard Resource Center, the home is now open to the public and hosts a number of community events.

Bruce Springsteen grew up in this home at 39 1/2 Institute Street in Freehold, New Jersey from the years 1955 to 1962. It was while living at this house aged 7 in 1956 that Springsteen witnessed Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show and decided he wanted to be a musician himself. 

Meticulously restored in 2014 thanks to funds from Arkansas State University, Johnny Cash’s boyhood home is in the tiny town of Dyess, Arkansas.

Jim Morrison’s home in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he lived in his teens while his dad worked at the nearby Kirtland Air Force Base.

Paul ‘Bono’ Hewson’s parents bought this house on Cedarwood Road, Dublin seven weeks after his birth in 1960 and he spent his entire childhood here. The U2 song ‘Cedarwood Road’ on their 2014 album ‘Songs of Innocence’ is a nostalgic musical celebration of Bono’s boyhood abode.

Aged 17, Freddie Mercury and his family fled the Zanzibar revolution to live at 22 Gladstone Avenue in Feltham, West London. Pictured is Queen’s Brian May and Freddie’s younger sister Kashmira Cooke at the unveiling of a Blue Plaque at the house in September 2016.

Lars Ulrich lived in this uniquely designed property in Hellerup, Denmark with his family until he moved to America aged 17.

Sir Mick Jagger was brought up in this semi-detached house in Dartford, Kent. His future bandmate Keith Richards lived just around the corner.

Keith Richards spent the first six years of his life living in this two-bedroom flat above a florists in Dartford, Kent.

Axl Rose lived at this humble Lafayette, Indiana house from 1962 to 1982 before moving to Los Angeles in his early twenties.

The young Mark Field (Marc Bolan) lived at this terraced property on Stoke Newington Common, London from his birth in 1947 to aged 15 in 1962. In 2005, the London Borough of Hackney honoured Bolan with a plaque outside the property.

The humble two-bedroom house in Tupelo, Mississippi where The King himself Elvis Presley was born on 8th January 1935. It was built by his father Vernon after he successfully secured a $180 loan.

John Francis Bongiovi Jr.’s childhood home in Sayreville, New Jersey. Astonishingly, MTV bought the home in 1989 and gave it away in a competition. Jon Bon Jovi was reported to be “angry” at the publicity stunt and the competition winner soon sold the property.

Soon after Liam’s birth, the Gallaghers moved to Ashby Avenue and then to Cranwell Drive in Burnage (pictured). With a violent and alcoholic father, Noel and his brothers had an unhappy childhood before mum Peggy left Thomas in 1982 with her three children.

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