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Ozzy's school of hard rocks!
Aug 23 2003
By Staff Reporter, Evening Mail
The Ozzy Osbourne Academy of Performing Arts could soon help youngsters forge a showbiz career if community leaders in Aston have their way.
The Wild Man of Rock, who was born in Lodge Road, Aston, and attended Birchfield Road School, is being invited to be patron of the new facility to encourage youngsters in music, drama, dance and media.
Hes a really good choice because hes from an underprivileged background yet he over-came his problems to be a success, said Doreen Bailey, chairman of South Aston Community Association which is spearheading the project.
Some people have said hes not a good role model but he encourages those from deprived areas to know that anything is possible.
During the summer the association has been running a performing arts project which they would like to see developed into an academy based at their HQ in Astons Upper Sutton Street.
If Ozzy agrees well call it the Ozzy Osbourne Aston Academy of Performing Arts, Doreen said. The project is helping young people from all over Birmingham.
Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the School of Speech and Drama, Birmingham Conservatoire and South Birmingham College have contributed to teaching.
