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Billy
Written by Pamela Stephenson
Narrated by Pamela Stephenson
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
The best-selling biography of Scottish comedian Billy Connolly, written by the woman who knows him best: his wife.
Author
Pamela Stephenson
An Australian born in New Zealand, Pamela Stephenson is famous for her starring role in’Not the Nine O’Clock News’ and other TV and film work. She and Billy married in 1989 and currently live and work in Los Angeles, where she now practises as a clinical psychologist.
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Reviews for Billy
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A charming and easy-to-read telling of Billy Connolly's life. Learn with awe of his meteoric rise from poverty and child abuse to fame and success. I love his acting and having learned more about his life, I feel like I can honestly say I love the man and what he stands for.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What a journey! I have loved Billy's stand-up and movie/TV roles for years, but had no knowledge of his life or who he is. This chronicle of his life and experiences was eye opening and loads of fun. I think I love him even more now.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I love Billy Connolly, and this takes us from his childhood, life as a welder, music/comedy/film career and two marriages. Lots of comic exerpts. Maybe not great writing, but good enough for an entertaining read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Absolutely brilliant book. Laughed my way through the book, even the sad moments had a funny twist. Would give this book as a present as I think most people would find it funny.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Insightful biography of a well-loved comedian who overcame huge challenges. Stephenson's affection and sympathy for her husband as a subject are warming. The book would be a more rewarding read were the writing style more fluid but this is a price worth paying for a perspective that no other biographer is likely to discover.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a book about one of my very favourite comedians.Back Cover Blurb:Who is the real Billy Connolly? He's the man who needs no introduction, and yet he is the ultimate enigma. From a troubled and desperately poor childhood in the docklands of Glasgow he is now the intimate of household names the world over. But who is the man behind the myth? If anyone knows Billy Connolly better than himself, it's his wife, Pamela Stephenson.In this extraordinary book, she combines the very personal with a frank objectivity that makes for a compellingly moving - yet hugely entertaining - biography.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Billy was sexually abused form the age of eleven to fourteen by his father
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I was expecting this book to be really funny as I am a big fan of Billy Connolly however as it is written by his second wife, Pamela Stepenson there is less of the comical Billy and more history and facts. As his second wife I felt that there were also attempts to not 'step on anyone's toes' up until the timeframe of their relationship and I much more enjoyed the story from that point on as it was more personal.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Biography of Billy Connelly by his wife. Early background information gives insite into his character
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5....a surprisingly candid look at one of the funniest men alive today (ah, next to Eddie Izzard, of course) I didn't think I'd like it because his wife, a "psychologist", wrote it. But she was fair, almost "diagnosis-free" in her writing, and jumped to no conclusions about what exactly affected billy in his youth. If you like the man, read the book. it won't make him more or less funny to you, but it reminds you of how much humor can be based on the cruelties of life....
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Interesting man and his story let down by a flat and boring prose style