IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

Billy Connolly - one of us

· Socialist Challenge No. 6, 21 July 1977 · p. 15 of the scan · 298 words

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page 15 of the scan

THEY GIVE YOU free sticks of you go Into Bally Comnolly's concert. Red and Iegend "Billy Connolly" running through it instead of "Blackcommon touch is probably what they have in mind.

And a superstar Connolly andoubtedly is. The former wel der from Cilasgow's shipyards is reckonod to have made himsell 280,000 through his countrywide tour which ended at the Rainbow in London last week:

That is an awful lot of money but compared to the carnings of monarchs, company direciors, ALAN BULLOCK reviews four new books HITLER in the July BOOKS & BOOKMEN now on sale 75p Copies by post 90p from 75 Victoria Sr., London SWI Logir Cape and tennis players, Billy Connolly is underpRid.

From a "professional point of anyone elsc in this couniry. His originality, his spontaneity, his delivery mark him out as the saperstar. Not far him a galaxy of song, script, and gag writers. The only material be borrows is working class Glasgow street repartee, His concert in London repeat ed the obsessions that made him: there is more to his in Blue', lis eborus runs:

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