BILLY
RAYMOND
BILLY RAYMOND
By
Linda C Wood
G’day!
A LONG AND WINDING ROAD
I don’t believe it!! At last I’ve made it onto a Front Page! The only other time I’ve made it onto a front page was in the Sydney Daily Telegraph, when I had the first of my heart problems and the banners outside all the newsagents screamed “TV STAR DICES WITH DEATH” - which made me laugh, for in the biz we called it “a P54”, for every personality that something happened to - a toe operation or tonsillitis - had a similar headline. Ah, well, that IS showbusiness!
Would you believe - last year I celebrated 60 YEARS as a professional performer, and I still have the “brass neck” to keep on being “on the green”. I started being paid to perform when I was 12 years of age - on BBC Radio in Scotland at Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow, ten shillings per broadcast! Then at the Paisley Victory Theatre with “The Logan Family”, eight shows a week for 30 shillings per week! I was always showbusiness daft - running my own Concert Party for charity shows when I was 14, going to drama school, R.S.A.M.D., at 16, heading to London when I was 19 to perform in a strip club (not as a stripper!) called, very
Would you believe - last year I celebrated 60 YEARS as a professional performer, and I still have the “brass neck” to keep on being “on the green”. I started being paid to perform when I was 12 years of age - on BBC Radio in Scotland at Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow, ten shillings per broadcast! Then at the Paisley Victory Theatre with “The Logan Family”, eight shows a week for 30 shillings per week! I was always showbusiness daft - running my own Concert Party for charity shows when I was 14, going to drama school, R.S.A.M.D., at 16, heading to London when I was 19 to perform in a strip club (not as a stripper!) called, very
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