Willie John McBride Willie John McBride William James McBride, MBE, better known as Willie John McBride (born 6 June 1940) is a former rugby union footballer who played as a lock for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions. He played 63 Tests for Ireland including eleven as captain, and toured with the Lions five times — a record that gave him 17 Lions Test caps. He also captained the most successful ever Lions side, which toured South Africa in 1974. McBride was born at Toomebridge, County Antrim. Owing to his father's death when he was five years old, he spent most of
Little Willie John in 1991. A biography, "Fever: Little Willie John, a Fast Life, Mysterious Death and the Birth of Soul", by Susan Whitall with Kevin John (another of his sons), was published by Titan Books in 2011. Little Willie John was posthumously inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio August 2014, and again in Dearborn, Michigan in 2016. In June 2016, Little Willie John was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame. Little Willie John William Edward "Little Willie" John (November 15, 1937 – May 26, 1968) was an American R&B singer