BILLY
RAYMOND
poshly, The Irving Revue Bar! Thirteen strippers and three guys - seven shows a day, seven days a week! At £12 a week - I had hit the big time!!! At 20, I was the male singing ‘star’ of my first BBC TV series, “You and the Night and the Music” at £200 per show - not too bad a jump from ten bob a show to two hundred quid in a time frame of 8 years! Mind you, during the years leading up to that, I’d well and truly been doing my “apprenticeship” in tatty variety theatres and summer shows - but learning from wonderful people, some with great acts, waiting for the opportunity to be “discovered” by the “right” people. Most of them (who are still alive) are still my friends to this day - and they helped me to learn my “trade”.
From then on it was quite “plain sailing” - appearing all over the world on radio, television shows, stage revues and with many of my own shows, up until the present day.
The countries that I’ve performed in, apart from virtually every city in the UK, include Malta, Bahrain, Libya, Cyprus, Germany, France, Italy, USA, New Zealand and, of course, Australia. Mind you, I may have forgotten some, as I thought the list would have been longer. I know, I’m having a “senior moment”!
Well, folks, the lovely Linda suggested that I write about 100 to 200 words for my “front page” and, as I can’t count, I have no idea how many words I’ve written, but Linda can always edit it! (Linda says: No way!)
By the way, maybe I can’t count, but - I can tell you this, when I’m on stage performing, during ONE SONG, I can tell you how many punters are in the auditorium - 10, either side of 1,000!!!
I hope you enjoy my website and, if you follow my blogs, you will know what I’m up to on a pretty regular basis.
Cheers,
Billy
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