# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-lyall
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:14:28.431Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-lyall"
name: "Billy Lyall"
slug: "billy-lyall"
description: "William C. Lyall was a Scottish musician, known for his work with Pilot, The Alan Parsons Project, and the Bay City Rollers. Lyall worked as a solo artist and session player into the 1980s before he died from AIDS in 1989."
tagline: "Scottish musician (1953–1989)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1953-03-26"
deathDate: "1989-12-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.72
  momentum:             1.919399988242157
  historical:           8.419841333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/557450"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "بيلي ليال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Lyall"
    title: "Billy Lyall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Lyall"
    title: "Billy Lyall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Lyall"
    title: "Billy Lyall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Lyall"
    title: "Billy Lyall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Lyall"
    title: "Billy Lyall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Lyall"
    title: "Billy Lyall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Lyall"
    title: "Billy Lyall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b625f714-1b17-4f59-bd29-dc70a304d589"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1796368"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump