Bill Whelan: ‘I hope my children never doubted how much I cared about them, as I was mostly on the road’
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Bill Whelan (74) is a composer and producer who has worked with U2, Van Morrison, and Kate Bush. He is the Grammy award-winning composer of ‘Riverdance’.
I grew up in Limerick in the 1950s. My father and mother ran a newsagent. They were late to marriage. My dad was 50 when I was born and my mother was 40. They did have one child beforehand but he didn’t survive.
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