One woman, who declined to be named and lives nearby, said the man's parents were not at the housewhen police arrived as they were currently abroad on holiday.
She was as anonymous as in the days when she would charge out of her parents' house in Formby, near Liverpool, in much the same old belted mac and her school panama hat, a leggy 14-year-old heading for the shore and the arms of her German lover.
The streets of Glasgow weren't nearly as friendly 65 years ago when the young Billy Connolly arrived with a plop on the cold linoleum floor of his parents' tenement house.