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 .

Ozzy Osbourne took his final bow after reuniting with the original lineup of Black Sabbath to play a farewell concert before a crowd of over 40,000: 'Thank you from the bottom of my heart.'