Billy Connolly is a one-of-a-kind legend. The outrageous Scot's unsurpassed comedy genius has won him countless fans, including Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Judi Dench, Whoopi Goldberg, Eric Idle, and Steve Martin. He has performed to adoring audiences around the world in sold-out concerts and has turned in many award-winning performances on film and television. But who is the real Billy Connolly? And what is his story? In some aspects, it is a Scottish Angela's Ashes, a story of a childhood of almost unimaginable hardship in the Scottish tenements, a boy abandoned by his mother, sexually molested by his father, brutally beaten by the aunt who raised him. Despite an unpromising beginning that leads to work in the tough-as-nails Glasgow shipyards, Billy Connolly takes up the banjo and rises to celebrity, first as a folk musician (his band members eventually become Stealers Wheel) and later as a frenetic freestyle comic and then movie star (his performance in Mrs. Brown, opposite Judi Dench, won him serious acclaim). Read Less