Full Name William Lyall Role Musician Name Billy Lyall | Years active 1969 -1989 Occupation Singer, musician Died December 1, 1989 | |
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Albums From the Album of the Same Name Similar People David Paton, Stuart Tosh, Ian Bairnson, Derek Longmuir, Alan Longmuir | ||
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William "Billy" Lyall (26 March 1953 – 1 December 1989) was a Scottish musician.
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Lyall was a keyboard player, vocalist and occasional flautist with Pilot, and an early member of the Bay City Rollers. He was keyboard player for Dollar between 1978 & 1982, and also contributed to The Alan Parsons Project with fellow Pilot members. He left Pilot in early 1976 and released a solo album, Solo Casting later that year. He also contributed string arrangements and synthesizer parts to an album by the band Runner (Island records) in 1979.
Lyall died of AIDS-related causes in 1989, aged 36. Bay City Rollers' manager Tam Paton later revealed that Lyall was gay.
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