Billy Connolly Mural
Towering street-art portrait of a comedy legend in Jacobite-style dress, full of hidden joke references.
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This guide to the Billy Connolly Mural on Glasgow's Gallowgate starts in a hotel function room in Airdrie in the early nineteen seventies, where a young folk singer was being taped telling the story of Jesus his own way. It follows that routine back to this very street and to one of Glasgow's oldest pubs, and then up the wall to Rachel Maclean's Big Yin, painted for his seventy-fifth birthday. Stand across the road so you can take in the full height of the costume.
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