What a great character..never heard him talking before..just his singing, which is jaw dropping! I remember him passing and seems a sad loss as great characters are needed in music..I got to hear his band as Id followed Mike Dempsey..and they didnt dissappoint!
That little back and forth is lovely indeed. He was a very, very tender soul, creatornet, and your post is perceptive and heartwarming. I got to know him and Alan Rankine when they rehearsed at the Kings Buildings in Edinburgh, before the stardom stuff. A lovely man with a huge talent that he always played down. God rest him.
OMG he was so charming. But the best is when the camera man says he knows what a "Meat Market" is and Billy nods at him, than does a double take to check the guy out. lol miss ya billy
Christ he never lost his Dundee accent....great guy...met him a few times...knew his brother John better...because being a straight guy i wasn't part o the Dundee gay scene :)
The interviewer is Lesley Ash - an actress who did a very temporary stint on the Tube filling in for Paula Yates while she was looking after her latest new born.
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Not at HMV, but the two albums The Glamour Chase and Perhaps are readily available as a double CD set at sites like Amazon, for a very reasonable price. :-) I'm more than happy to share that of Billy's music which is no longer, or never has been, available, but that's where it ends.
RIP Billy -In Lesley Ash's defence her gauche(feathers 4 brains) style gives the whole interview an irreverant-spontaneous feel ! Believe me it could have been far,far worse. He might have been interviewed by,say, the Proffesional and Deferential Scotsman B.A.Robertson!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!--Bang fuckin Bang.
the song Morrissey wrote 'bout Billy was Suedehead.....when The Smiths wrote and recorded 'William',doubt if they had ever even met,check out the lyric to Suedhead?...and read between the lines,though I thimk it's rather obvious..
I've heard from somewhere that it was Billy Mckenzie that Morrissey was refering to in The Smiths song William It Was Really Nothing. I don't know if its true but Billy seemed to be very charismatic.
@@simonmaskell365 I'm not sure if it was Billy Mckenzie now because Morrissey was in a band called the Nosebleeds with someone called Billy Duffy who went on to be a guitarist in The Cult. There's a film called England is mine about Morrissey before he was famous and Billy drops him to go to London.
You're probably right but it's not as romantic as my original notion.Billy Braggs good,original and honest (i think) but not as charismatic as Mr McKenzie.
