Happy Birthday to the Big Yin 🥳
Sir Billy Connolly is turning 80 today , and is regarded as one of the most successful stand-up comedians, not only in Glasgow, but across the world.
He left school to work in the shipyards, becoming a welder, and joined the Territorial Army at around the same time. He developed an interest in folk music, eventually being an accomplished banjo player and a member of the band Humblebums with Gerry Rafferty - later of Baker Street fame. He went on to have a regular slot on the show, and decided to try his hand at another aspect of the arts and entertainment industry.
She rose to fame after starring in 1980s sketch show Not the Nine O'Clock News. She also wrote a biography about her husband, titled Billy.
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