
Paul Williams
Paul Williams is an American composer, singer, songwriter, and actor. Williams released the albums I'm Going Back There Someday, Bugsy Malone, and Jim Henson's Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas. He received the Academy Award for Best Original Song for Evergreen and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for A Star Is Born. Williams also received the Grammy Award for Best Children's Music Album for The Muppet Movie. His most popular songs include Touch with Daft Punk and Faust. Williams appears in the films The Muppet Movie, Smokey and the Bandit, and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement.
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- The Hard Shoulder 30 years on from the murder of Veronica Guerrin

Today marks three decades since the tragic and brutal killing of Journalist Veronica Guerrin. Paul Williams, Journalist at Mediahuis Ireland covering the Irish Independent and Sunday Independent wrote a powerful piece in today’s Irish Independent, where he described it as Ireland’s “JFK moment”.He joins Shane to reflect on when he heard the news of Veronica’s murder, and discuss the impact it had.
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About
- FROM
- Omaha, NE, United States
- BORN
- September 19, 1940
- GENRE
- Pop