A biography of Billy Connolly ( A site written in November 2007 )
William "Billy" Connolly, CBE, (born 24 November 1942) is a Scottish comedian, musician, presenter, & actor. He is sometimes known, especially in his native Scotland, by the nickname The Big Yin (The Big One). The nickname was first used during Connolly's adolescent years to differentiate between himself & his father, William Connolly, Sr.
Background
Birth
& early years
Connolly was born at 65 Dover Street ("on the linoleum,
three floors up") in Anderston, Glasgow to Mary Adams, a hospital cafeteria
worker, & William Connolly, an instrument technician & the son of an Irish
immigrant. In 1946, with their son barely four years old, Connolly's mother abandoned
him & his sister while his father was away for the war. He & his sister,
Florence ("Flo"), were then looked after by two aunts, Margaret &
Mona, his father's sisters.
Connolly was brought up in the Anderston & , later, Partick districts of Glasgow. He attended St. Peter's Primary School in Glasgow & St. Gerard's Secondary School in Govan. At the age of 12, he decided he wanted to become a comedian but felt he didn't fit the mould; he felt he needed to become more "windswept & interesting". Instead, at the age of 15, he left school & became a welder at Stephens Shipyard. Around the same time he joined the Territorial Army's Parachute Regiment.
1960s
In
1965, after he had completed a five-year apprenticeship as a welder, Connolly
accepted a ten-week job building an oil rig in Nigeria. Upon his return to Scotland,
he focused on being a folk singer.
On 27 June 1969, a 26-year-old Connolly married his first wife, Iris Pressagh. In December 1969 his first child, Jamie, was born. He has four more children, all girls — one (Cara, born 1973) with Iris, & three with his second wife, Pamela: Daisy (31 December 1983), Amy (7 July 1986), & Scarlett (28 July 1988).
Connolly's career as a folk singer led to him forming a folk-pop duo called The Humblebums with a fellow musician Tam Harvey. After recording one album, Harvey left the partnership & was replaced by future rock star Gerry Rafferty. Connolly’s time with Rafferty possibly influenced his future comedy as years later he would recall how Rafferty’s expert prank telephone calls, made while waiting to go on stage, used to make him “scream” with laughter. The Connolly-Rafferty version of The Humblebums recorded two more albums for independent record label Transatlantic Records. The albums were not big commercial successes but enjoyed cult status & critical acclaim. Connolly's contributions were primarily straight-forward pop-folk with quirky & whimsical lyrics - but he had not especially focused on comedy at this point.
In 1970, the Humblebums broke up with Rafferty going on to record a solo album for Transatlantic Records - Can I Have My Money Back (1971). Connolly returned to being a folk singer. His live performances featured folks songs with humorous introductions that became increasingly long in duration.
The head of Transatlantic Records, Nat Joseph, who had signed the Humblebums & had nurtured their career, was concerned that Connolly find a way to develop a distinctive solo career just as his former bandmate Gerry Rafferty was doing. Joseph saw several of Connolly's performances & noted his comedic skills. Joseph had successfully nurtured the recording career of another Scottish folk entertainer Hamish Imlach - & Joseph saw potential in Connolly following a similar path. He suggested to Connolly that he drop the folk-singing & focus primarily on becoming a comedian. It was a life-changing suggestion.
1970s
In 1972 Joseph
produced Connolly's first solo album Billy Connolly Live! a mixture of comedic
songs & short monologues that hinted at what was to follow. In late 1973,
Joseph produced the breakthrough album that propelled Connolly to British stardom.
Recorded at a small venue, The Tudor Hotel in Airdrie - the record was a double
album titled Solo Concert. Releasing a live double-album by a comedian who was
virtually unknown (except to a cult audience in Glasgow) was an unusual gambit
by Joseph but his faith in Connolly's talent was justified. Joseph & his Transatlantic
Records marketing team - which included publicist Martin Lewis (who as a producer
in 1979 would cast Connolly in The Secret Policeman's Ball) - successfully promoted
the album to chart success on its release in 1974. Building on his cult Scottish
following, Transatlantic broke Connolly throughout the UK - an unusual development
for a regional comedian.
In 1975, Transatlantic used the rapidity & extent of Connolly's breakthrough to secure him a booking on Britain's premier TV talkshow - the BBC's Parkinson show. Connolly made the most of the opportunity & told a bawdy joke about a man who had murdered his wife & buried her bottom-up so he'd have somewhere to park his bike. This ribald humour was unusually forthright on a primetime Saturday night on British television in the mid-1970s & his appearance made a great impact. He became a good friend of the host, Michael Parkinson, & now holds the joint record (with Kenneth Williams) for appearances on the programme, having been a guest on eight occasions. Referring to that debut appearance, he later said: "That programme changed my entire life." Parkinson, in the documentary Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years, stated that people still remember Connolly telling the punchline to the 'bike joke' three decades after that TV appearance.
Connolly's UK success spread to other English-speaking countries — Australia, New Zealand & Canada. However, his broad Scottish accent & British cultural references made success in the U.S. improbable. His road manager at this time was Eddie Tobin.
His popularity in Britain endeared him to many other British entertainers including musicians such as Elton John. John at that time was trying to assist British performers he personally liked, to achieve success in the U.S. (He had released records in the US by veteran British pop singer Cliff Richard on his own Rocket Records label.) John tried to give Connolly a boost in America by using him as the opening act on his 1976 US tour. But the well-intentioned gesture was a failure. Elton John's American fans had no interest in being warmed-up by an unknown comedic performer - especially a Scotsman whose accent was incomprehensible to most Americans. "In Washington, some guy threw a pipe & it hit me right between my eyes", he told Michael Parkinson two years later. "It wasn't my audience. They made me feel about as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit."
Connolly continued to grow in popularity in the UK. In 1975 he signed with Polydor Records & the label built on Transatlantic's groundwork. Connolly continued to release live albums & he also recorded several comedic songs that enjoyed commercial success as novelty singles including parodies of Tammy Wynette's song "D.I.V.O.R.C.E." & the Village People's In The Navy - titled In The Brownies.
In 1979, Connolly was invited by producer Martin Lewis to join the cast of The Secret Policeman's Ball - the third in the series of the Secret Policeman's Ball fundraising shows for Amnesty International. Connolly was the first comedic performer in the series who was not an alumnus of the Oxbridge school of middle-class university-educated entertainers & he made the most of his appearance. His performance was considered to be one of the highlights of the show's comedy album (released by Island Records in December 1979) & feature film (released by ITC Films in 1980). Appearing in the company of long-established talents such as John Cleese & Peter Cook helped elevate the perception of Connolly as one of Britain's leading comedic talents. Lewis also teamed Connolly with Cleese & Cook to appear in the television commercial for the album.
1980s
In 1981, John Cleese & Martin Lewis
invited Connolly to appear in that year's Amnesty show The Secret Policeman's
Other Ball. Connolly's performance was again reported as one of the highlights
of the show & he was prominently featured in the subsequent comedy album (Springtime!/Island
Records 1981) & UK film (UIP 1982). The commercial success of the special
U.S. version of the The Secret Policeman's Other Ball film (Miramax Films 1982)
introduced Connolly to a wider American audience - attracted to the film because
of the presence of Monty Python members. His on-screen presence alongside these
performers - who were already familiar to Anglophile comedy buffs - helped lay
down a marker for Connolly's eventual return to America in his own right eight
years later.
In 1985, he divorced his wife of sixteen years (they had separated four years earlier). He was awarded custody of their two children. That same year, he recorded An Audience with... which was broadcast in front of a celebrity audience on ITV. The uncut, uncensored version was subsequently released on video. In July 1985 he performed at the Wembley leg of Live Aid - immediately preceding Elton John.
In 1986 he visited Mozambique to appear in a documentary for Comic Relief. He also featured in the charity's inaugural live stage show, both as a stand-up & portraying a willing 'victim' in his partner Pamela Stephenson's act of sawing a man in half to create two dwarves.
Connolly completed his first world tour in 1987, including six nights at the Royal Albert Hall in London, which was documented in the Billy & Albert video.
When the Fox Network aired Freedomfest: Nelson Mandela's 70th Birthday Celebration in 1988, Connolly was still virtually unknown in the States, but his performance drew attention, particularly from producers, & interest in him grew.
In 1989, Connolly's father died after a stroke, the eighth of his life. (His mother died four years later of motor neurone disease.)
On December 20, 1989, in Fiji, Connolly married Pamela Stephenson, the New Zealand-born comedy actress he had met when making a cameo appearance on the BBC sketch show Not The Nine O'Clock News, where she was one of four regular performers. He had been living with her since 1981. "Marriage to Pam didn't change me, it saved me", he later said. "I was going to die. I was on a downwards spiral & enjoying every second of it. Not only was I dying, but I was looking forward to it."
Earlier in 1989 Connolly shaved off his trademark shaggy beard for a film role & he remained clean-shaven for several years.
1990s
Although Connolly had performed
in North America as early as the 1970s, & had appeared in several movies that
played in American theatres, he nonetheless remained relatively unknown until
1990 when he was featured in the HBO special Whoopi Goldberg & Billy Connolly
in Performance, produced by New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music. Goldberg introduced
Connolly, & his performance has been cited as the moment that officially launched
his career in the States. Soon after, Connolly succeeded Howard Hesseman as the
star of the sitcom Head of the Class for the 1990-1991 season, but the series
was cancelled during his tenure.
The following year saw Connolly & Stephenson move to Los Angeles, & the family won green cards in the Morrison Visa Lottery. In 1991, Connolly received his first (and, to date, only) leading television role as the star of Billy, another sitcom & a spinoff of Head of the Class. It lasted only a half season.
On June 4, 1992, Connolly performed his 25th-anniversary concert in Glasgow. Parts of the show, & its build-up, were documented in The South Bank Show, which aired later in the year.
Connolly was dealt a blow in 1993 when his close friend & fishing partner, Jimmy Kent, passed away.
In early January 1994, Connolly began a 40-date World Tour of Scotland, which would be broadcast by the BBC later in the year as a six-part series. It was so well received that the BBC signed him up to do a similar tour two years later, this time in Australia. The eight-part series followed Connolly on his custom-made Harley Davidson trike.
Also in 1996, Connolly recorded a BBC special, entitled A Scot in the Arctic, in which he spends a week by himself in the Arctic Circle. A notable feature of these shows is that he strips naked in one scene in each of them, usually in some remote wilderness area where no one is likely to complain, although for Comic Relief he once danced naked around Piccadilly Circus.
In 1998, Connolly's best friend, Danny Kyle, died. "He was me dearest, dearest, oldest friend," Connolly explained to an Australian audience on his Greatest Hits compilation, released in 2001.
In November 1998, Connolly was the subject of a two-hour retrospective entitled Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years, which included tributes from Dame Judi Dench, Sean Connery, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, & Eddie Izzard. The special was released on DVD in North America in 2004.
The following year, Connolly undertook a four-month, 59-date sellout tour of Australia & New Zealand. Later in the year, he completed a five-week, 25-date sellout run at London's Hammersmith Apollo. In 2000 he travelled to Canada for two weeks on a 13-date tour.
2000s
In
2000 Connolly starred in Beautiful Joe alongside Sharon Stone. The following year
he completed the third in his "World Tour" BBC series, this time of
England, Ireland & Wales, which began in Dublin & ended in Plymouth. It
was broadcast the following year.
Also in 2001, Pamela Stephenson's biography of her husband, Billy, was published. It outlines his career & life, including the sexual abuse by his father that lasted from his tenth to his fourteenth years. Much of the book is about Connolly the celebrity but the account of his early years provides a context for his humour & point of view. A follow-up, Bravemouth, was published in 2003.
Connolly has also written several books, including Billy Connolly (late 1970s) & Gullible's Travels (early 1980s), both based upon his stage act, as well as books based upon some of his "World Tour" television series. He has stated that his comedy does not work on the printed page.
A fourth BBC series, World Tour of New Zealand, was filmed in 2004 & aired that winter. Also in his 63rd year, Connolly performed two sold-out benefit concerts at the Oxford New Theatre in memory of Malcolm Kingsnorth, who for twenty-five years was Connolly's tour manager & sound engineer.
In October 2004, during an 18-night stint at London's Hammersmith Apollo, he was criticised for making jokes about the hostage Kenneth Bigley. Shortly after Connolly joked about the future beheading of the hostage, Bigley was beheaded in Iraq. Connolly claims he was misquoted. He has declined to clarify what he actually said, claiming that the context was as important as the precise words used.
He has continued to be a much in demand character actor, appearing in several films such as White Oleander (2002), The Last Samurai (2003) & Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004).
In January 2005, Connolly came 8th in The Comedian's Comedian, a poll voted for by fellow comedians & comedy insider & embarked on a major UK tour with 15 sold-out nights in Glasgow.
Also in 2005, Connolly & Stephenson announced, after fourteen years of living in Hollywood, they were returning to live in the former's native land. They purchased a 120-foot yacht with the profits from their house-sale, & split the year between Malta & Candacraig House in Aberdeenshire. Since then Connolly has moved again & now lives in New York.
Later in the year, Connolly topped an unscientific poll of "Britain's Favourite Comedian" conducted by TV network Five placing him ahead of performers such as John Cleese, Ronnie Barker, Dawn French, & Peter Cook.
Career
Folk music
In 1965,
together with Tam Harvey, Connolly started a group called the Humblebums. At their
first gig, Connolly reportedly introduced them both to the audience by saying,
"My name's Billy Connolly, & I'm humble. This is Tam Harvey, he's a bum."
The band would later include Gerry Rafferty. Connolly sang, played banjo, guitar
& Autoharp, & entertained the audience with his humorous introductions
to the songs.
In his World Tour of Scotland, Connolly reveals that at a trailer show during the Edinburgh Festival, the Humblebums took to the stage just before the late Yehudi Menuhin.
The trio broke up in 1971, at which point Connolly went solo. His first solo album in 1972, Billy Connolly Live! on Transatlantic Records, features Connolly as a singer, songwriter, & musician.
His early albums were a mixture of comedy performances with comedic & serious musical interludes. Among his best known musical performances were "The Welly Boot Song", a comical ode to the working class which became his theme song for several years; "In the Brownies", a parody of the Village People classics "Y.M.C.A." & "In the Navy" (for which Connolly filmed a music video); "Two Little Boys in Blue", a tongue-in-cheek indictment of police brutality done to the tune of Rolf Harris' "Two Little Boys"; & the ballad "I Wish I Was in Glasgow" which Connolly would later perform in duet with Malcolm McDowell on a guest appearance on the 1990s American sitcom Pearl (which starred Rhea Perlman). He also performed the occasional Humblebums-era song such as "Oh, No!" as well as straightforward covers such as a version of Dolly Parton's "Coat of Many Colors" which was included on his Get Right Intae Him! album.
In November 1975, his spoof of the Tammy Wynette song "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" had a one-week spell as the UK's No. 1 single. Wynette's original was about parents spelling out words of an impending marital split to avoid traumatizing their young child. Connolly's version of the song, on the other hand, played off of the fact that many dog owners use the same tactic when they do not wish their pet to become upset about an impending trip to the vet. His song is about a couple whose marriage is ruined by a bad vet visit (spelling out "W-O-R-M" or "Q-U-A-R-A-N-T-I-N-E", for example.)
His song "No Chance" was a parody of J.J. Barrie's "No Charge".
In 1985 he sang the theme song to Supergran, which was released as a single & in 1996 he performed a cover of Ralph McTell's In The Dreamtime as the theme to his World Tour of Australia. By the late 1980s, Connolly had all but dropped the music from his act, though he still records the occasional musical performance. In 1998 he covered The Beatles' "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" on the George Martin tribute, In My Life. Most recently, he sang a song during the film Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Connolly is among the artists featured on Banjoman, a tribute to American folk musician Derroll Adams, released in 2002. He plays one song, "The Rock".
Stand-up
comedy
It is as a stand-up comedian that Connolly is best known. His observational
comedy is idiosyncratic & often off-the-cuff. He talks about himself, who
he is, where he's been, what he thinks & how he reacts to the world around
him. He has outraged audiences, critics & , of course, the media with his
free use of the word "fuck". He has used masturbation, blasphemy, defecation,
flatulence, haemorrhoids, sex, his father's illness & his aunts' cruelty to
entertain. By exploring these subjects with humour, Connolly has done much to
strip away the taboos surrounding them. Yet he does not tell jokes in the conventional
way. At the end of a concert the audience can be convulsed with laughter, though
few can remember a specific "funny" line.
One of Connolly's most famous comedy routines is The Crucifixion, a 1973 live recording produced by Nat Joseph in which he likened Christ's Last Supper to a drunken night out in Glasgow. The recording was banned by many radio stations at the time. Around this same time, a joke told during a television talk show appearance (about a murderer & his bike) became a sensation that, reportedly, people still remember three decades after the appearance. This joke is discussed (and the performance shown) in the retrospective Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years.
He was voted Britain's favourite comedian in a survey by Channel 4
Playwright
Connolly has written
three plays:
An' Me Wi' A Bad Leg Tae (1975)
When Hair Was Long &
Time Was Short (1977)
Red Runner (1979)
Film actor
Filmography
Year
Title
2009 Ice Age 3 as Tharsh
2006 Good Sharma as Reverend Webster
Open Season as McSquizzy
Garfield 2 as Lord Dargis
Fido as Fido
DVD
Billy
Connolly: The Essential Collection as Himself
2005 DVD
Billy Connolly:
Live in New York
Documentaries
Ivor Cutler: Looking for Truth with a
Pin as Himself
The Aristocrats as Himself
2004
Connolly in Lemony
Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate EventsLemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate
Events as Uncle Monty
Television
Billy Connolly's World Tour of New
Zealand as Himself
Documentaries/Specials
Comedy Central Presents: 100
Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time as #73
2003 The Last Samurai as Zebulon
Grant
Timeline as Prof. E.A. Johnston
Documentaries/Specials
Billy
Connolly: Erect for 30 Years as Himself
Julie Walters: A BAFTA Tribute as
Himself
The Importance of Being Famous as Himself
Overnight as Himself
Comic Relief 2003: The Big Hair Do as Himself
2002 White Oleander
as Barry Kolker
Billy Connolly Live 2002 as Himself
Billy Connolly's World
Tour of England, Ireland & Wales as Himself
Documentaries/Specials
Ultimate
Fights from the Movies as Frankie from Crossing the Line
Billy Connolly: A
BAFTA Tribute as Himself
Judi Dench: A BAFTA Tribute as Himself
The Rutles
2: Can't Buy Me Lunch
2001 Gabriel & Me as Gabriel
The Man Who
Sued God as Steve Myers
Who is Cletis Tout? as Dr. Savian
Billy Connolly
Live: The Greatest Hits as Himself
Television Movies
Prince Charming
as Hamish
Gentlemen's Relish as Kingdom Swann
Documentaries/Specials
Comic
Relief: Say Pants to Poverty as Himself
Comic Relief Short Pants as Himself
2000 An Everlasting Piece as Scalper
Beautiful Joe as Joe
Television
Movies
Columbo: Murder with Too Many Notes as Findlay Crawford
1999
The Boondock Saints as Il Duce
The Debt Collector as Nickie Dryden
1998
Still Crazy as Hughie
also the composer of "Stealin'"
The Impostors
as Mr. Sparks
Middleton's Changeling as Alibius
1997 Beverly Hills
Ninja as Japanese Antique Shop Proprietor
Mrs. Brown as John Brown (for which
he was nominated for a BAFTA)
Paws as PC (voice)
Billy Connolly: Two Night
Stand as Himself
Television Movies
Deacon Brodie as Deacon Brodie
Documentaries/Specials
Sean
Connery, an Intimate Portrait as Himself
Sean Connery Close Up as Himself
Whatever Happened to... Clement & La Frenais? as Himself
1996
Muppet Treasure Island as Billy Bones (He believes himself to be the only man
to ever die in a Muppet movie.)
Television
Pearl guest star & composer
of "I Wish I was in Glasgow" in the episode "Billy"
Billy
Connolly's World Tour of Australia as Himself
Video Games
Muppet Treasure
Island as Billy Bones (voice)
Documentaries/Specials
A Scot in the Arctic
as Himself
1995 Pocahontas as Ben (voice)
Two Bites of Billy Connolly
as Himself
1994 Billy Connolly Live 1994 as Himself
Television
Billy
Connolly's World Tour of Scotland as Himself
1993 Indecent Proposal as
the Auction MC
Television Movies
Down Among the Big Boys as Jo Jo Donnelly
1992 25 B.C.: The Best of 25 Years of Billy Connolly as Himself
Television
Billy
as Billy MacGregor
1991 Billy Connolly Live 1991 as Himself
Pale
Blue Scottish Person (HBO Standup Performance) as Himself
1990 Whoopi
Goldberg Presents Billy Connolly (HBO Standup Performance) as Himself
Crossing
the Line (known in the UK as The Big Man) as Frankie (for which he shaved off
his trademark goatee)
Television
Head of the Class as Billy MacGregor
(1990-1991)
Television Movies
Dreaming (movie)
1989 The Return
of the Musketeers as Caddie
1988 Documentaries/Specials
Nelson
Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute as Himself
1987 The Hunting of the Snark
as The Bellman
Billy Connolly at the Royal Albert Hall as Himself
1986
To the North of Katmandu
1985 Water as Delgado
An Audience with Billy
Connolly as Himself
Television
Supergran composer/singer of the theme
song
Television Special
Live Aid as Himself
1984 Television
Tickle
on the Tum
Television Movies
Weekend in Wallop as Himself
1983
Bullshot as Hawkeye McGillicuddy
1982 The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
as Himself
The Pick of Billy Connolly as Himself
Television Movies
Blue
Money as Des
1981 Billy Connolly Bites Yer Bum! as Himself
Documentaries/Specials
Concert
for Kampuchea as Himself
1980 The Secret Policeman's Ball as Himself
Worzel Gummidge: A Cup o' Tea an' a Slice o' Cake as Bogle McNeep
1978
Absolution as Blakey
Billy Connolly in Concert as Himself
1976 Connolly
as Himself
Television Movies
The Elephants' Graveyard as Jody
Documentaries/Specials
Big
Banana Feet as Himself
1975 Television Movies
Just Another Saturday
as Paddy
Television guest appearances
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
on 9 June 2007
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on 28 September 2006
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on 10 May 2006
Enough Rope on 20 February
2006
Real Time with Bill Maher on episode (#3.22), 28 October 2005
Britain's
Finest on episode "Actresses", 18 July 2005 & episode "Actors",
11 July 2005
Last Call with Carson Daly on 22 December 2004
The Daily
Show with Jon Stewart on 15 December 2004
Late Night with Conan O'Brien on
14 December 2004
Parkinson in 1975 & on 2 January 1978; 3 April 1982;
23 January 1998; 17 December 1999; 20 October 2001; 18 October 2003; 4 September
2004
Tinseltown TV on 6 December 2003
The Late Late Show on 17 October
2003
Rove Live on 23 October 2001
3rd Rock from the Sun as Inspector Macaffery
on episode "Dial M for Dick" (#5.4), 9 November 1999
Tracey Takes
On... as Rory Cassidy in episode "Culture" (#3.9), 1 March 1998
Veronica's
Closet as Campbell in "Veronica's Got a Secret" (#1.11), 8 January 1998
Pearl as William 'Billy' Pynchon in episode "Billy Returns" (#1.22),
25 June 1997 & episode "Billy" (#1.4), 30 September 1996
Clive
James in episode (#1.3), 6 March 1994
Late Show with David Letterman on 18
November 1993
The South Bank Show on October 4, 1992
Minder as Tick Tack
in episode "Fatal Impression" (#7.3), 16 January 1989
Aspel &
Company in episode (#2.11), 23 March 1985
The South Bank Show on May 13, 1979
Awards
Connolly was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by
the University of Glasgow on 11 July 2001. 2003 saw him presented with a BAFTA
Lifetime Achievement award & a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
On 4 July 2006, Connolly was awarded an honorary doctorate by Glasgow's Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama (RSAMD) for his service to performing arts.
On 18 March 2007, Connolly was named Number One in Channel 4's "100 Greatest Stand Ups".[8]
Further reading
Billy, Pamela Stephenson, Perennial
Currents, 2003. ISBN 0060537310
Bravemouth, Pamela Stephenson, Headline, 2003
ISBN 0755312848.
Discography
A partial list of musical & comedic
recordings:
1972 - Live
1974 - Cop Yer Whack for This
1974 - Solo
Concert
1975 - Get Right Intae Him!
1975 - Words & Music
1976
- Atlantic Bridge
1977 - Billy Connolly
1977 - Raw Meat for the Balcony!
1979 - Riotous Assembly
1981 - The Pick of Billy Connolly
1983 - A
Change is Good as Arrest
1983 - In Concert
1984 - Big Yin Double Helping
1985 - Wreck on Tour
1987 - Billy & Albert
1991 - Live at the
Odeon Hammersmith London
1995 - Musical Tour of Scotland
1999 - Comedy
& Songs
2002 - The Big Yin - Billy Connolly in Concert
2003 - Transatlantic
Years
2005 - Billy Connolly's Musical Tour of New Zealand
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