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Bravemouth: Living with Billy Connolly [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Pamela Stephenson (Author)
2.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Hardcover: 241 pages
  • Publisher: Headline Book Publishing; illustrated edition edition (11 Oct 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 075531283X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0755312832
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 262,973 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Mrs Billy Connolly's tale of an extraordinary year in the life of living with her husband is as insightful, entertaining, serious and wacky as you'd expect from the author of Billy. Bravemouth is the ultimate insider's view of his filming, his charity works, his 60th birthday party. It includes personal insights into what makes him tick, and what makes her tick (it's her year too). It's a celebration but it's interspersed with serious reflection - both on what he does and what she does (the contrast between the inherent seriousness of her work as a psychologist, compared to the zaniness of his comedy). The nature of fame, the challenges of age, the triumph-over-adversity are all themes underlying the many anecdotes that combine to make this highly involving.

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"Billy", the ground-breaking biography of the nation's favourite iconoclast, gave millions of readers a fascinating insight into the personal and professional life of the genius that is Billy Connolly. Now, in the sequel to that bestselling book, the award-winning Pamela Stephenson celebrates life with the Scottish beastie as he hits the big six-oh. Here we relive colourful and epic moments from Billy's early life in Glasgow - the background to an intimate portrait of his marriage with Pamela and his life in Scotland, LA and the rest of the world. Witty, insightful and intimate, "Bravemouth" draws the reader into two very different worlds - hers of international sexology and the serious psychology of humorists, his of incontinence pants, being married to a shrink...and the finer points of banjo playing.

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Poor contrast to Billy..., 9 Dec 2003
By A Customer
Billy was an excellent book, a rags to riches story of a kind, brave and generous man. Unfortunately Bravemouth is a riches and more riches story, covering a recent year in the Scottish comics life. Whilst it still highlights at times what a great man Billy Connolly is, because of the lifestyle he and his wife have now earned unfortunately the book is more an insight into how the rich and famous live than anything.

If you want to understand Billy Connolly and how he has become the man he is today, read Billy. If you want to know what it's like to be part of a family of a celebrity, read Bravemouth.

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Not for Billy Connolly fans, 2 Nov 2006
By Ben Clark "pimpthehoes2001" (Scotland) - See all my reviews
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The previous comments sum this book up perfectly.

I bought a book about Billy Connolly to read about Billy Connolly.

Who cares about Pamela Stephenson's own travels through India?
How she chooses to decorate the interior of her Maltese house?
How she misses Australia so much, especially the food?
The history of the Maltese Knights of Valletta?
How she began her stage career at 5 years old in a ballet production of the teddy bear's picnic?
and wet herself on stage?
How she once had to do a scene that involved taking down someones trousers on TV?
Her experiences feeding sharks in Bora Bora?

Who cares? I dont want to know any of this stuff, but I have to wade through pages of it to get to the good stuff.

She spends pages telling you how she researched transgendered people in Samoa! People who cut their own genitals off. She basically rehashes stuff that she has read in a other book, passing it off as professional research, and you are never going to forget that she is a psychologist because she reminds you of that fact at least once every 2 pages, and on the back cover. At least 30% of this book has nothing whatsoever to do with Billy Connolly.

This book is a vehicle for her, and its such a shame as, the events in Billy Connolly's 60th year sound so interesting. If only she would stick to the point, and realise that being married to an interesting person does not make your life interesting too.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars What a shame, 31 Jan 2006
By A Customer
Billy Connolly is brilliant. I love his cutting, flamboyant, insightful and wonderfully funny sense of humour.

What I do not like is his dear wife using a book supposedly about him to tell us all about herself and her experiences.

And that sums this book up really. I'm sure Pamela is a very interesting woman, but I want to hear about Billy.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The title is "Living With Billy Connolly"
so to me it seems reasonable that the book has been written by and from his wife's view and experiences. I really enjoyed "Billy" even though bits of it were depressing. Read more
Published on 21 Feb 2007 by Perpetua

1.0 out of 5 stars Pseuds Corner
I'm at a loss to understand exactly what the point of this book is; Ms Stephenson is truly awful. One particular sentence struck me as such pretentious drivel that I had to fold... Read more
Published on 27 Jul 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!
I'm completely baffled by the other reviews of this book. I loved 'Billy' and I love this almost as much! Read more
Published on 19 April 2004 by H. Playford

1.0 out of 5 stars Not so tickety-boo
Billy Connolly is one of my heroes. I have grown up with him, from illicit snatches of albums we were too young to be allowed to listen to and then on to seeing him perform live... Read more
Published on 27 Feb 2004 by Tom Donoghue

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing and largely, quite dull.
Big disappointment after 'Billy' - the first, fabulous book that Pamela Stephenson wrote about her infamous husband. Read more
Published on 19 Feb 2004 by Ms. A. Bradshaw

1.0 out of 5 stars moneyspinning
A very welcome Christmas present,everybody's buying it, great !!
UNTIL you read it, yuk!
So many 5 & 6 Syllable words you need a constant dictionary, what a terrible book... Read more
Published on 14 Jan 2004 by thecheb

1.0 out of 5 stars Bravemouth
Very disappointing follow-up to Billy, which was quite moving. I wasn't really interested in wallowing in their family's privileged lives. Read more
Published on 8 Jan 2004

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing Follow Up To Billy
I loved Billy, a fascinating insight into the life of Billy Connolly from boy to man. Unfortunately this book felt more like a vehicle for Pamela Stephenson to experiment with... Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2004 by hitchins68

4.0 out of 5 stars A Interesting Read
I thought the book illustrated his way of life well. It had depth, warmth and laughter. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to know how to be different yet still enjoy your life
Published on 14 Nov 2003 by evamuk

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