John Byrne Edinburgh International Book Festival 2011

Byrne was certainly a character! 

John Byrne was born in Paisley and attended Glasgow School of Art. He is a Scottish playwright and artist.  Byrne is best known as the writer of  Tutti Frutti, a 1987 television series starring Robbie Coltrane, Emma Thompson and Richard Wilson, which he later turned into a play. He also wrote the six-part series Your Cheatin' Heart in 1990.  From 1964 until 1966 he designed jackets for Penquin Books. Byrne has also designed record covers for The Humblebums with Gerry Rafferty and Billy Connelly, Donavan, and the Beatles.  His work is held in major collections in Scotland and abroad. Several of his paintings hang in The  Scottish National Portrait Gallery.