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Connolly was born on 24 November 1942 at 69 Dover Street, "on the linoleum, three floors up", in Anderston, Glasgow. This section of Dover Street, between Breadalbane and Claremont streets, was demolished in the 1970s. Connolly refers to this in his 1983 song "I Wish I Was in Glasgow" with the lines "I would take you there and show you but they've ...
Origin of "The Big Yin"
Connolly's nickname The Big Yin was first used during his adolescent years to differentiate between himself and his father. "My father was a very strong man. Broad and strong. He had an 18+1⁄2-inch [470 mm] neck collar. Huge, like a bull. He was "Big Billy" and I was "Wee Billy". And then I got bigger than him, and the whole thing got out of control. And then I became The Big Yin in Scotland. So, we'd go into the puband someone would say, 'Billy Connolly was in.' 'Oh? Big Billy or Wee Billy?'...
1960s
In the early 1960s, Connolly attended the Edinburgh Festival Fringefor the first time. After spending time on the city's Rose Street, patronising the various drinking establishments, he became enamoured by some long-haired musicians and decided to model himself on them. In 1965, after he had completed a 5-year apprenticeship as a boilermaker, Connolly accepted a ten-week job building an oil platform in Biafra, Nigeria. Upon his return to the United Kingdom, via Jersey, he worked briefly at Jo...
1970s
In 1972, Connolly made his theatrical debut, at the Cottage Theatre in Cumbernauld, with a revue called Connolly's Glasgow Flourish. He played the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with poet Tom Buchan, with whom he had written The Great Northern Welly Boot Show, and in costumes designed by the artist and writer John Byrne, who also designed the covers of the Humblebums' records. Also in 1972, Nat Joseph produced Connolly's first solo album, Billy Connolly Live!, a mixture of comedic songs and short...
Connolly married Iris Pressagh in 1969. They separated in 1981 and divorced in 1985. In 1981 he began living with Pamela Stephenson; they were married in Fiji on 20 December 1989. "Marriage to Pam didn't change me; it saved me," he later said. "I was going to die. I was on a downwards spiral and enjoying every second of it. Not only was I dying, bu...
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, and I'm humble. This is Tam Harvey, he's a bum." The band would later include Gerry Rafferty, who saw Connolly at a charity show in Paisley."Gerry was very good for me. He taught me that I would never be a musician as long as my arse looked south. He was just so outstandingly good and getting bette...
Stand-up comedy
Connolly's observational comedy is idiosyncratic and often off-the-cuff. He has offended certain sectors of audiences, critics and the media with his free use of the word "fuck", and he has made jokes relating to masturbation, blasphemy, defecation, flatulence, hemorrhoids, sex, his father's illness, his aunts' cruelty and, in the latter stages of his career, old age (specifically his experiences of growing old). In 2007 and again in 2010, he was voted the greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4...
Comics writing
Between 1973 and 1977 Connolly wrote a newspaper gag-a-day comic with cartoonist Malky McCormick, titled The Big Yin.
Below is a partial list of Connolly's solo musical and comedic recordings. For his releases with the Humblebums, see here. 1. 1972 – Billy Connolly Live 2. 1974 – Cop Yer Whack for This 3. 1974 – Solo Concert 4. 1975 – Get Right Intae Him! (#80 AUS) 5. 1975 – Words and Music 6. 1975 – The Big Yin 7. 1976 – Atlantic Bridge 8. 1977 – Billy Connolly 9...
Connolly has written three plays: 1. An' Me Wi' A Bad Leg Tae(1975) 2. When Hair Was Long And Time Was Short(1977) 3. Red Runner(1979)
On 11 July 2001, Connolly was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) degree by the University of Glasgow.In 2002, the BAFTApresented him with a Lifetime Achievement Award.In the 2003 Birthday Honours, Connolly was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire(CBE), for "services to Entertainment".On 4 July 2006, Connolly was awarded an honorary doctorate by Glasgow's Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama(RSAMD), for his service to performing arts.Connolly, Billy; Campbell, Duncan (19 March 1976). Billy Connolly, The Authorized Version. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-330-24767-2.Connolly, Billy (27 October 1983). Gullible's Travels. Arrow Books. ISBN 978-0-09-932310-5.Connolly, Billy (18 October 2018). Made in Scotland: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-1-78594-370-6.Connolly, Billy (17 September 2020). Tall Tales and Wee Stories. Two Roads. ISBN 978-1529361360.Billy Connolly at IMDbBilly Connolly at British Comedy GuideBilly Connolly discography at Discogs- William Connolly
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Discover Live! [Fabulus] by Billy Connolly released in 2003. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
Billy Connolly had 'serious falls' after balance issues, says wife. The comedian's wife says the issues are the "most significant" symptom of his Parkinson's disease.
