Created in partnership between Glasgow Life Museums and Billy Connolly and Pamela Stephenson, the new audio tour invites visitors to explore Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum through the eyes of The Big Yin himself.
You can enjoy this tour anytime on the Bloomberg Connects app but for the best experience, listen in Kelvingrove as Sir Billy accompanies you, walking the galleries, remembering times spent there as a young boy, wondering at the armour and sliding on the tiles in his socks.
Find out his highlights, what is most memorable to him, and why.
Speaking about the new experience, Billy Connolly said: “I've known Kelvingrove since I was a wee boy. Let me tell you about my memories of the place.”
Explore Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum with Billy Connolly and check out the parts of the building which still mean something to him.
1. Explore Kelvingrove with Sir Billy Connolly
Join Sir Billy Connolly and wander through his favourite parts of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum - and beyond. Throughout the tour, Sir Billy offers insight into his early life, his music and comedy career, and his relationships with John Byrne and others, with Kelvingrove and Glasgow as the backdrop - all told in that warm and distinctive voice, in a way only he can. | Glasgow Life
2. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
"That frontage ...is tattooed on my brain and it stays with you forever. It’s a beautiful building... it had life in it.... I love it. And I love it still... Museums show you, close up, what can be done by human beings. It's amazing." | © Visit Glasgow
3. Alasdair Gray's Cowcaddens
"It's brilliant. I love it. It's a beautiful picture, and it's the light. Glasgow has that funny light in the autumn - not quite dark, not quite light. Yes, I met him a lot of time. I used to meet him when I lived in Hyndland Road. I would meet him going for walks among those beautiful tenements, and I'd be walking my dogs. He was lovely. And then my daughter, she does film. She filmed him in his house, painting. And he was talking about the art galleries where he learned to draw and paint. He's a beautiful person. That's a good picture." | Creative Commons
4. Trade Union Banners
"I liked banners. I liked the artwork on banners, and I remember being shocked once, I was going to an exhibition of trade union banners. Which shows you how boring I can be when I really try. And I met Jimmy Reid at the end of it. And he gave me the big ‘hail fellow, well met!’, and we were talking, not about banners. That disappeared quickly into the conversation. But he said, he said, did you know Ella Fitzgerald was coming to the Kelvin Hall? Which is across the road. And I said, yeah, I saw it somewhere. He said, 'you're good at getting tickets. Could you get me four?' And so, I got them four and I handed them over to him. And he gave me two back. And I said, 'What's this?' He said 'It's yours. It's time you improved your music skill'. And any time I see the lobby and the hallway of the art galleries, I think of Jimmy Reid, who's dead now. He was a great Glaswegian." | Glasgow Life