Willy Russell

Person · Open Library

Works

55

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1947-08-23

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,799

Total plays

34,348

Willy Russell is well known as the writer of plays and films such as Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine, Our Day Out, and the musical Blood Brothers. His work has attracted huge and appreciative audiences all over the world and his plays and musicals have won countless awards. His first novel, The Wrong Boy, published in 2000, has been translated into fifteen languages and is currently being adapted for a major television series. What is perhaps less well known is that Willy has been writing so

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities

   · 2000 · cited 23,014x

2. A simple method for displaying the hydropathic character of a protein

   · 1982 · cited 18,691x

3. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,786x

4. Atherosclerosis — An Inflammatory Disease

   · 1999 · cited 17,125x

5. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

   · 2022 · cited 13,882x

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Music

Quotes

• “Frank: There, you see, an example of assonance.Rita: Oh, it means getting' the rhyme wrong.”
• “Rita: Will they sack you.Frank: [lying flat on the floor] The sack? God no; that would involve making a decision. Pissed is all right. To get the sack, it'd have to be rape on a grand scale; and not just with students either. [Rita gets up and moves across to look at him] That would only amount to a slight misdemeanour. For dismissal it'd have to be nothing less than buggering the bursar.”
• “Rita: Have they sacked y'?Frank: Not quite.Rita: Well, why y' – packing your books away.Frank: Australia. [After a pause] Some weeks ago – made rather a night of it. Rita: Did y' bugger the bursar? Frank: Metaphorically.”
• “She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came back from work one mornin' an' found her husband in bed with the milkman. With the milkman, honest to God. Well, apparently, from that day forward Jane was a feminist. An' I've noticed, she never takes milk in her tea.”
• “Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.”
• “I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket.”

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