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Ozzy Osbourne’s Manager & Coventry Musician Make Sweet Music Together

As the world mourns the loss of the eccentric Black Sabbath front man, Ozzy Osbourne, it has come to light of a connection between the original Black Sabbath manager, Jim Simpson, and one of Coventry’s hardest working musicians, during the week of the rock legends passing.

Warren James is a Coventry based musician (raised in Warrington, Lancashire) who is renowned for performing over 250 roots and blues music concerts per year and has performed and shared billing with Brian May of the rock band Queen, as well as veteran music stars of the 1950s and 1960s such as Joe Brown and Dave Sampson.

He has worked alongside some of the top names in Jazz and Blues music and he is in demand having recently toured Denmark and is due to work in Germany and other European towns in 2026, that is in addition to his 250 British concerts.

Warren James has been working regularly for the original manager of Black Sabbath, Jim Simpson, whose management agency, Big Bear Music, has engaged the most world class rock, blues and jazz stars since launching in 1968 and it was Jim who undoubtedly launched Ozzy Osbourne’s career into the stratosphere.

During this year’s 41st Birmingham Jazz & Blues Festival, created and run by Jim Simpson and Big Bear Music, Warren James performed at the festival launch party before many celebrities and dignitaries. But it was early evening on Tuesday 22nd July that Ozzy Osbourne’s death was announced to the world, whilst Warren and his band, “The Skiffle Heroes”, all first class global jazz and blues musicians, were performing mid-gig in the city’s Jewellery Quarter.

Very quickly, they created an impromptu skiffle music rendition of Black Sabbath’s hit record, Paranoid.

They were likely to be the first band in the UK to not only make a unique and fitting tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, but they were playing at a world renown festival that was created by, and invited by, Osbourne’s manager and Black Sabbath creator.

Talk about being in the right place at the right time.