I was swept up in the crowds of fans paying tribute to Birmingham's own Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne

Some might argue Trevor Francis or Neville Chamberlain is deserving of the title, but putting footballing or political allegiances aside, the Prince of Darkness, frontman of Black Sabbath and a worldwide reality TV star, has a fame that transcends almost everything and everyone in the city of his birth.

And getting off the train at New Street station, there was an air of celebration and recognition of a global superstar  - even on the sombre day of his funeral - who grew up in Aston and whose death earlier this month hushed the rock world and beyond.

The first port of call was the shop opposite New Street station where there was a striking image of Ozzy accompanied in small letters by the offer of a poster of him for either £10 or £15.

There will always be people ready to cash in, but all around the New Street area many hundreds of people had come in from various places to pay their respects.

There was a wall next to the shop emblazoned with images of Ozzy where hundreds of floral tributes had been laid, with Ian Stone, from Birmingham, putting his down to add to them.

To me he didn't look old enough to have been around when Black Sabbath started on their journey to worldwide fame, but Ian had the fortune to see them at the Download festival in 2016 when Sabbath took over the headline berth from Motorhead after the death of their own frontman, Lemmy Kilmister.