Ozzy Osbourne‘s face has been projected onto the aspect of New Zealand’s tallest constructing, the 328-metre Sky Tower in Auckland.
The projection was put in place to have fun the late icon’s dominance of this 12 months’s Rock 2000 countdown, an annual ballot through which listeners of NZ radio station The Rock choose one of the best rock songs of all time.
Black Sabbath‘s basic Conflict Pigs topped this 12 months’s ballot (up from #19 final 12 months), with the solo smash Mama I am Coming House at quantity 2, a place clearly pushed by Ozzy’s emotional rendition of the track at Black Sabbath’s Again To The Starting present in July (final 12 months, the track was at quantity 150 on the Rock 2000 countdown).
Different Ozzy songs within the Prime 50 included Loopy Prepare (#4), No Extra Tears (#10), Hellrasiser (#15) and See You On The Different Facet (#29), whereas Sabbath’s Paranoid (#13), Iron Man (#38) and NIB (#44) additionally made the ultimate checklist.
Most remarkably, as if to evolve that the outcomes of those polls are pushed by present occasions, rising star Yungblud‘s Villa Park model of Black Sabbath’s ballad Adjustments was voted the seventh greatest rock track ever by Kiwi followers, properly forward of acknowledged classics like AC/DC‘s Freeway To Hell (#138), Led Zeppelin‘s Stairway To Heaven (#57) and Lynyrd Skynyrd‘s Freebird (#35). We anticipate it to drop subsequent 12 months.
The Prime 10 is as follows, and consists of two native acts, Blindspott and Shihad.
1. Black Sabbath – Conflict Pigs
2. Ozzy Osbourne – Mama I am Coming House
3. Blindspott – Nil By Mouth
4. Ozzy Osbourne – Loopy Prepare
5. Shihad – House Once more
6. System Of A Down – Chop Suey!
7. Yungblud – Adjustments (Stay From Villa Park)
8. Metallica – One
9. Pearl Jam – Black
10. Ozzy Osbourne – No Extra Tears
This is not the primary time Sky Tower has performed a task in rock music. In 2023, one other native act, Black Smoke Set off – who supported Iron Maiden man Bruce Dickinson on his 2024 UK tour – filmed a video for his or her single The Approach Down through which guitarist Charlie Wallace bungee-jumped off the constructing whereas shredding.
