| Binchy the Songwriter  By
Debbie McGoldrick
HER new novel Whitethorn Woods is sitting pretty at number four on the latest
New York Times best-seller list, all of her past works have sold a gazillion
copies, with a couple of them even optioned for film.
Clearly author Maeve Binchy knows what she’s doing when she takes
a pen in her hand (or a laptop to her fingers), so it would no surprise
if her attempt to create a hit pop song becomes reality.
No less an authority than Irish talent manager Louis Walsh who, we told
you a few weeks ago was tossed off the British reality show The X Factor
by its creator Simon Cowell - is ready to give Maeve her chance to be
a star songwriter. Two years ago, the Dublin-based writer penned a song
with her husband Gordon Snell, and though she had aspirations of former
Irish pop star Ronan Keating singing it all the way to the Grammy Awards,
her plan never panned out.
“It has lovely lines in it like ‘the nights in harbor bars and
the dancing to the stars,” Binchy told the Irish Star Sunday. “It’s
a romantic holiday song.”
Though the sooooo over Keating took a pass, Walsh is willing to gift the
song onto one of the acts in his mighty stable, if he likes what he hears.
“Maeve’s a million seller with her books. Why not her pop songs?”
Walsh reckons. “I’ll be giving her song a good listen and if
it’s any good it could end up on a Westlife or Shayne Ward album.”
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