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Shops at Birmingham Airport will have to start stocking bats if one man\u2019s \u201cmasterstroke\u201d to boost Brum\u2019s heritage is taken up.
For while Liverpool has John Lennon Airport and New York JFK, the record company boss who discovered Black Sabbath is calling for Birmingham Airport to be named after Sabbath front man Ozzy Osbourne.<\/p>\n
The call from Jim Simpson, boss of Big Bear Music, comes after plans for a Black Sabbath Day in the city were apparently shelved.<\/p>\n
But doubting whether such an event would be a success in the first place, Jim came up with the re-naming idea.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cI believe that there is a masterstroke that would instantly confound the cynics.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust re-name our airport! How does The Ozzy Osbourne International Airport resonate?<\/p>\n
\u201cThe message that would carry is instantly international, confident, powerful, unforgettable and says \u2018Hey World, we are proud of our own\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cOzzy might not always have been a paragon of virtue, but he is a genuine flesh and blood Brummie.\u201d<\/p>\n
The idea of celebrating the work of Ozzy Osborne, Tony Iommi and co was backed by the city council earlier this year as part of a wider \u2018Destination Birmingham\u2019 programme, which aimed to boost music tourism.<\/p>\n
But while the man behind the plans, Coun Philip Parkin, fears they will no longer happen, he said he was open minded about re-naming the airport.<\/p>\n
He told the Birmingham Mail: \u201cIt\u2019s an interesting idea and I\u2019ve got an open mind but I think something like that would need to be consulted on fairly widely because it\u2019s a significant part of our infrastructure.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would be interested to know what people thought about that as an idea.<\/p>\n
\u201cI still feel in general we need to be making the most of the talent we have got and did have in this city and with something like this we have to ask people their opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Forseeing comparisons with Liverpool\u2019s airport, named after Beatle John Lennon, Mr Simpson added: \u201cBefore anyone launches into a \u201cLiverpool got there first with a John Lennon Airport\u201d retort we should remember that their airport is distinctly unimpressive, provincial and bears no comparison with ours.\u201d<\/p>\n
Source: BirminghamMail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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