IT'S OUR TURN!

PEAKY BLINDERS CREATOR SAYS BRUMMIES SHOULD SHOUT ABOUT THEIR TRIUMPHS AS HE HAILS OZZY'S IMPACT AND LAUNCHES BLUES TV SERIES

- CASEY COOPER-FISKE News Reporter

PEAKY Blinders creator Steven Knight said the music of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath is “the Birmingham soundtrack” after the singer's cortege travelled through the city on Wednesday.

The 65-year-old, who grew up in the Birmingham area and whose BBC crime drama is set in the city, said that the procession, which saw Ozzy’s family travel through Birmingham with his hearse, saw an “outpouring of love” for the singer and the city from fans who gathered on the route.

Mr Knight said: “He and Tony Iommi, and Geezer Butler, and all of those people, I don’t know whether people know that they're from a pretty tough part of town and they had quite tough lives, and they just sort of decided to do this thing, to make this music.