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Biography

Bill Whelan (born May 22, 1950) is the Irish composer who was asked to compose a piece for the interval of the Eurovision Song Contest. The end result, Riverdance, was a ten-minute display of traditional Irish dancing that became a full-length stage production and spawned a worldwide craze for Irish dancing and celtic music.

Whelan is a native of Limerick, and was educated at Crescent College, University College Dublin and the King’s Inns. He worked as a pianist for The Waterboys during their Fisherman’s Blues sessions. His work appears on a second album from those sessions, Too Close to Heaven.

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Top Tracks

1	Riverdance	75
2	Reel Around the Sun	51
3	American Wake (The Nova Scotia Set)	31
4	Firedance	25
5	Lift The Wings	20
6	Macedonian Morning	18
6	Shivna	18
8	Slip Into Spring	17
9	Andalucia	15
10	Caoineadh Cú Chulainn (Lament)	14
11	The Heart's Cry	12
12	The Harvest	11
13	Marta's Dance/The Russian Dervish	10
14	The Countess Cathleen / Women of the Sidhe	9
15	Home and the Heartland	8