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David McWilliams

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Northern Irish singer and guitarist (1945–2002)

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Ireland
Active from
1945-07-04
Active to
2002-01-08
classic pop and rockcontemporary folksinger-songwriter

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popirishfolk rock60sfolk

David Samuel McWilliams (4 July 1945 – 8 January 2002) was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Northern Ireland, best known for his 1967 song "Days of Pearly Spencer". McWilliams was born in the Cregagh area of Belfast and moved to Ballymena at the age of three.[1] He began playing guitar and writing songs in his early teens. After leaving Ballymena Technical College in 1963, he started an apprenticeship at the Shorts missile factory in Antrim, and also started a local dance band, the Cor

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