Boozers were decked with purple balloons and flags; murals were everywhere you looked; people donned Ozzy outfits, flooding the streets with battered T-shirts and denim jackets. It felt like a World Cup final for the metal fans who flooded in from every corner of the planet .

Black Sabbath held a huge one-day event at Birmingham's Villa Park called Back to the Beginning, bringing their legendary story full circle. The renowned band's last event in their hometown, where heavy metal was born,

As Ozzy Osbourne bounced in his seat, his body keen to follow a heart that was yearning to leap out and embrace his people beneath the lights in his home neighbourhood of Aston, one thing was obvious from where we were sitting: The Black Sabbath frontman is NOT defined by any disability.