Editing Billy Liar (section)

==In popular culture==
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*Waterhouse later wrote a sequel called ''[[Billy Liar on the Moon]]''.
*There is also an acoustic folk/punk singer from Scotland called [[Billy Liar (band)|Billy Liar]].
*"[[Billy Liar (song)|Billy Liar]]" is the title of the second track of ''[[Her Majesty the Decemberists]]'' by [[The Decemberists]].
*[[Saint Etienne (band)|Saint Etienne]] sampled some lines from the movie in their song "[[You're in a Bad Way]]".
*The music video for the song "[[The Importance of Being Idle (song)|The Importance of Being Idle]]"  by [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] contains scenes based on scenes from ''Billy Liar'', although most of it is based on the video for [[the Kinks]]' ''Dead End Street''.
* The song "[[Twisterella]]" is shares its title with of a song that Billy co-writes in the novel.
* The [[Kids in the Hall]] "Billy Dreamer" character is based loosely on Billy Liar.
* The song "[[William, It Was Really Nothing]]" by [[The Smiths]] took inspiration from the book.
*It has been suggested that a local newspaper columnist parodied in both the book and the film bears a remarkable resemblance to the late-life Keith Waterhouse himself, when he was ensconced at the ''[[Daily Mail]]''.<ref>''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]'' magazine article by Nick Johnstone, 2000.</ref> However, given that Billy Liar was written in 1959 when Keith Waterhouse was 30 years old, and that he died in 2009, in the absence of any evidence of a time-machine among his effects, a conscious parody appears to be a particularly ludicrous post-hoc rationalisation.