The passing of Sinéad O’Connor
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Just heard that she's passed away. RIP.
My favourite performance of hers was on Jools' Later, with her daughter Roisin. Sadly can't find it on YT, but is on Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/156492779
My favourite performance of hers was on Jools' Later, with her daughter Roisin. Sadly can't find it on YT, but is on Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/156492779
Very sad news. She endured so much in her life from an early age and was one of the first to try and expose the depravity in the Catholic Church, famously getting banned from SNL for tearing up a photo of the Pope live on TV.
Her life was filled with sadness and she was used and abused by many but her autobiography was uplifting in many ways. She bore few grudges despite how she was treated.
Her voice was unsurpassed, her version of Prince’s “nothing compares 2 U” was glorious and “black boys on mopeds” remains one of the great protest songs.
What an awful week. George Alagiah, Trevor Francis and now Sinéad. Hopefully she’s at peace now.
Her life was filled with sadness and she was used and abused by many but her autobiography was uplifting in many ways. She bore few grudges despite how she was treated.
Her voice was unsurpassed, her version of Prince’s “nothing compares 2 U” was glorious and “black boys on mopeds” remains one of the great protest songs.
What an awful week. George Alagiah, Trevor Francis and now Sinéad. Hopefully she’s at peace now.
Saw her in 1987 at the City Hall, Sheffield, supporting INXS (my first 'big bad gig' usually spending my time frotaging around the Leadmill with New Order wannabees, Neds Atomic Dustbin and Shoegazing).
She had something very definite to her that night, different, projecting aroura ruined only about five songs in by the crowd alternately chanting "Enya, sing the Save the Whales song" and "Skinhead O'Connor".
Micheal Hutchence wasn't amused when INXS came on. "Try any of that sledging with us and we are walking off, at the moment you as a crowd don't even deserve a 'king encore". Crowd behaved.
She had something very definite to her that night, different, projecting aroura ruined only about five songs in by the crowd alternately chanting "Enya, sing the Save the Whales song" and "Skinhead O'Connor".
Micheal Hutchence wasn't amused when INXS came on. "Try any of that sledging with us and we are walking off, at the moment you as a crowd don't even deserve a 'king encore". Crowd behaved.
Sinead went to boarding school with my older brother for a while in the mid-80s, and can remember the day he brought home a newly released copy of “The Lion & The Cobra” a couple of years later. One of my favourite Irish albums of all time, up there with Whipping Boy’s “Heartworm”
Serious talent, maverick spirit, utter PITA at times as us Irish can be, but very much a legend. May she RIP
This still gets me: https://youtu.be/dqQyKL8nf8E
Serious talent, maverick spirit, utter PITA at times as us Irish can be, but very much a legend. May she RIP
This still gets me: https://youtu.be/dqQyKL8nf8E
My Irish mum died last November while I was out of the country, and to try to process it I probably watched this 40 or 50 times that night. https://youtu.be/2w9RKYDhBf4
Sinead was a phenomenal talent, who severely damaged her career by calling out the institutionalised paedophilia in the Catholic Church, but stayed true to her moral compass all her life.
RIP.
I remember when Nothing Compares 2 U first came out, I had great difficulty getting to hear it.
I know that sounds bizarre but our local radio station wasn’t playing it very much and I kept ‘missing’ it. Ah the days before we could anything we wanted instantly…
Anyway I went down to the local record shop and said to the manager, who I was reasonably friendly with and had pretty good musical taste, “What’s all this fuss over this Nothing Compares song, is it any good?”
He was Irish too and he looked straight at me and said “Toad, it’s one of the greatest songs I’ve ever heard. It’s going to be one of the all time classics,”
He certainly wasn’t wrong. It was then and is now a masterpiece. Virtually every emotion that can go through your mind following a loss in one brilliant recording.
Such sad,sad news tonight. The poor girl had such a rough life, I hope she’s found peace.
I know that sounds bizarre but our local radio station wasn’t playing it very much and I kept ‘missing’ it. Ah the days before we could anything we wanted instantly…
Anyway I went down to the local record shop and said to the manager, who I was reasonably friendly with and had pretty good musical taste, “What’s all this fuss over this Nothing Compares song, is it any good?”
He was Irish too and he looked straight at me and said “Toad, it’s one of the greatest songs I’ve ever heard. It’s going to be one of the all time classics,”
He certainly wasn’t wrong. It was then and is now a masterpiece. Virtually every emotion that can go through your mind following a loss in one brilliant recording.
Such sad,sad news tonight. The poor girl had such a rough life, I hope she’s found peace.
Adults with a Severe Mental Health issue are 4.6 times more likely to die before the age of 75 than those without a severe mental illness, add in the heart breaking suicide of her son and the consequences ripple down the friends and family like some highly contagious disease touching many more people than they could possibly know.
What a voice, that is such a strong part of our musical journey through life.
What a voice, that is such a strong part of our musical journey through life.
Mick Dastardly said:
My Irish mum died last November while I was out of the country, and to try to process it I probably watched this 40 or 50 times that night. https://youtu.be/2w9RKYDhBf4
Sinead was a phenomenal talent, who severely damaged her career by calling out the institutionalised paedophilia in the Catholic Church, but stayed true to her moral compass all her life.
RIP.
Thanks for the link. Just a lovely reminder of the sheer talent.Sinead was a phenomenal talent, who severely damaged her career by calling out the institutionalised paedophilia in the Catholic Church, but stayed true to her moral compass all her life.
RIP.
O/T - but her brother Joe is a great writer. "Star of the Sea" is a favourite.
This is very sad news of someone with a massive talent, with a voice of piercing delicateness and beauty, passing way too soon.
At the risk of sounding a little trite, I send a "Christmas Card" to all my friends on FB every year on the run up to the 25th. It's a YT link to one of Sinead's recordings of Silent Night, and it is spine tingling.
At the risk of sounding a little trite, I send a "Christmas Card" to all my friends on FB every year on the run up to the 25th. It's a YT link to one of Sinead's recordings of Silent Night, and it is spine tingling.
unrepentant said:
Very sad news. She endured so much in her life from an early age and was one of the first to try and expose the depravity in the Catholic Church, famously getting banned from SNL for tearing up a photo of the Pope live on TV.
Hadn’t heard this aspect of it - https://twitter.com/audrawilliams/status/108685707...BobToc said:
Hadn’t heard this aspect of it - https://twitter.com/audrawilliams/status/108685707...
She got a lot of grief for that, and for not allowing national anthems be played at her concerts. I seem to recall Old Blue Eyes weighing in on it at the timeHow sad. Such a hauntingly beautiful voice. Her cover of ‘nothing compares to u’ is on my shortlist of all time favourites.
RIP
Wow, just wow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAOKzvL8dgk
RIP
Wow, just wow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAOKzvL8dgk
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