Ozzy Osbourne tribute as farm recreates his image with hundreds of Halloween pumpkins

In a fitting tribute to Spooky Season, a UK farm turned its overflowing Halloween produce into a record-breaking mosaic that paid tribute to legendary rocker Ozzy Osbourne.

Sunnyfields Farm, in Southampton, arranged hundreds of their home-grown pumpkins and squashes to form the largest cucurbita mosaic (image) in the image of the Prince of Darkness, complete with bats flying around him. 

Official Guinness World Records Adjudicator Pravin Patel confirmed the mosaic to have a mammoth area of 212 m² (2,281 ft²), which is around the size of a tennis court! 

Once all the cucurbitas had been carefully arranged into the mosaic, the final image displayed a smiling depiction of Ozzy in a pair of his trademark sunglasses.

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The English rock legend and lead vocalist of influential heavy metal band Black Sabbath sadly passed away earlier this year on 22 July, leaving behind a profound legacy in the music industry. 

The mosaic was a tribute to his life, and the grand reveal was attended by his family, including his devoted wife Sharon and daughter, Kelly. 

Ozzy had performed his last show, Black Sabbath’s farewell concert Back To the Beginning, on 5 July just days before his death at age 76.

The heaviest pumpkin was also unveiled at the farm

The gig raised £140 million for various charities. 

Black Sabbath currently hold the Guinness World Records title for the longest gap between UK No.1 albums, with their 19th studio album, 13, released in 2013, coming 42 years 255 days after they first topped the chart with their second album, Paranoid, on 10 October 1970. 

While at Sunnyfields Farm, Pravin also weighed the heaviest pumpkin, grown by twin brothers Ian and Stuart Paton, who brought the record to the UK for the first time ever.