Billy Childish
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 39
Top works
- Notebooks of A Naked Youth
- Billy Childish
- 100 Yds of Crash Barrier Cancer of the Gallows and Other Poems Nobody Wants
- Photo-booth
- Somewhere Else
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Known for
- Basically, Johnny Moped — Self2013
- The Bearded Lady Also Sells The Candy Floss — himself2006
- Billy Childish Is Dead — Himself2005
- Sub Pop Video Network Program 1 — Self (archive footage)1991
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 25,280
- Total plays
- 277,563
Tags
Garage Rockpunkbilly childishgaragepunk blues
A cult figure in America, Europe and Japan, Billy Childish is by far the most prolific painter, poet, and song-writer of his generation. In a twenty year period he has published 30 collections of his poetry, recorded over 70 full-length independent LP’s and produced over 1000 paintings. Born in 1959 in Chatham, Kent. Billy Childish left Secondary education at 16 an undiagnosed dyslexic. Refused an interview at the local art school he entered the Naval Dockyard at Chatham as an apprentice stone
Authority record · VIAF
- Lifespan
- b. 1959
- Nationality
- GB, GBR
- Role / Field
- Singers, Rock musicians, Bass guitarists, Vytvarnici, Spisovatelia, Rock music
- Language
- eng
- Gender
- Male
Recorded by 16 libraries
via VIAF · OCLC
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Billy
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Chatham
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- garage punk
- Movement
- contemporary art
- Instrument
- guitar
- Record label
- Sympathy for the Record Industry
- Official website
- www.billychildish.com
- Image
- Billy Childish.jpg
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- Commons category
- Billy Childish
- date of birth
- 1959-12-01
- start of work period
- 1977-00-00
- social media followers
- 2371
- name in native language
- Billy Childish
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