- Born
- Died
- Birth nameWilliam Linich
- Nickname
- Billy Goat Clinic
- Moved to Manhattan, NY in 1960 to do lighting design for the New York Poets Theater, the Living Theater, and the Judson Memorial Church. He met Andy Warhol in 1963, and served as Warhol's in-house photographer, lighting & set designer, and book designer & editor from 1964 to 1970. Billy Name covered Andy Warhol's Factory interior with aluminum foil and silver paint. In 1970, he moved to San Francisco to work on poetry and sculpture. He returned to New York in 1977, where he continues to work with photography, poetry, and sculpture.
- IMDb mini biography by: <cffrost@hotmail.com>
- Typically only responded with "Name" when asked for his name; a few members of the Warhol circle knew him as Billy. Hence the sobriquet "Billy Name".
- Referenced in the The Velvet Underground song "That's The Story Of My Life"; "But Billy said/That both those words (wrong and right) are dead... That's the story of my life."
- He returned to his hometown, Poughkeepsie, New York, after hitchhiking around the U.S. After returning to Poughkeepsie, he went back to college and got a graduate degree in business administration.
- In August 2002, the United States Postal Service issued a stamp featuring a photograph by him of Andy Warhol.
- He met Andy Warhol while working as a waiter at Serendipity 3 at their original location at 234 East 58th Street.
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