Ozzy Osbourne's eldest son Louis has spoken about the "awe inspiring" scale of his late father's funeral.
Louis, 50, made a rare public appearance as a guest on his half brother Jack's podcast Trying Not to Die and spoke candidly about the Black Sabbath icon's cultural impact and the overwhelming outpouring of love that followed his death.
Ozzy passed away in July at the age of 76, just weeks after stars from across the world of rock gathered to help him celebrate his retirement.
His funeral was held in his hometown of Birmingham, England, and was an emotional mass gathering of heartbroken friends, family and fans.
Louis says: "Before we turned onto the street, I just thought it was going to be like two or three people deep for like half a kilometre before where the Black Sabbath bridge was, and it would be a throng."
Instead, fans were "climbing up lampposts, hanging out of windows, standing on top of bus stops to get a look of it. It kept on going for another half a mile and then people were following us all around town."
He says it was "awe inspiring" and opened his eyes to the scale of the impact his father had on the world.
"I knew people loved him, but I didn’t have a sense of how many and how much," he says. "'I’ve never got my head round the fact of just how much of a cultural impact he had and how culturally important he was."
Louis also reveals that Ozzy had been at peace with the realisation that he was nearing the end of his life.
He says: "I'm not saying he was ready to go, but I think I definitely think he knew his time was coming from the conversations we had. And to some degree, I think he was kind of at peace with that because he'd been in so much pain for so long."
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