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Prince of rock'n'roar

Perhaps you know the legend of Bonnie Prince Billy.

He is a feral pop creature who was born Will Oldham in 1970. He's a dude who is equal parts man, myth and folk-beast. His ravaged voice will break your heart.

It is said you could spy him surmounting Glen Lyon in the eighties, this shadowy, bearded American, who holidayed near Ben Lawers as a teen and has since become one of our greatest songwriters. More recently, he was spotted in a Kanye West video (Can't Tell Me Nothing), and an R Kelly comic-opera (Trapped in the Closet). You might have heard Johnny Cash cover his wounded psalm, I See A Darkness.