{"id":311257,"date":"2026-02-22T10:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311257\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T10:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:05:09","slug":"he-thought-ireland-was-heaven-trina-mckillen-pays-tribute-to-like-a-virgin-songwriter-husband-billy-steinberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311257\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He thought Ireland was heaven\u2019 \u2013 Trina McKillen pays tribute to \u2018Like a Virgin\u2019 songwriter husband Billy Steinberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Sister of property developer Paddy says US musician, who has died aged 75, was a huge fan of Connemara\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trina, Billy and Ezra in Ireland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SN Triana1 BIlly and Ezra.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Trina, Billy and Ezra in Ireland<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Trina McKillen, the artist and \u00adsister of property developer \u00adPaddy McKillen, is in \u00admourning following the death of her \u00adhusband, the songwriter Billy \u00adSteinberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Steinberg (75) wrote a string of chart-topping hits including Madonna\u2019s Like a Virgin, Cyndi Lauper\u2019s True Colours, The Bangles\u2019 Eternal Flame, The Pretenders\u2019 I\u2019ll Stand By You and Roy Orbison\u2019s I Drove All Night. He won a Grammy Award in 1997 for his work on Celine Dion\u2019s Falling into You. He died last Monday after a battle with cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sister of property developer Paddy says US musician, who has died aged 75, was a huge fan of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,664,6083,18097],"class_list":{"0":"post-311257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-madonna","12":"tag-niamh-horan","13":"tag-sinead-oconnor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}