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Sinead O'Connor has died

Aladdin said:
Pretty much very tv news statement or report here in Ireland is showing Sinéad as she was recently... I don't know who arranged the London Irish gathering. AnnieMac posted the instagram post about it.
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That's good to hear. But a quick Google search of the papers show that's not the case in England.
 
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RainbowTown said:
I’m as critical of Morrissey as anyone but I think here he was taking aim primarily at those within the music industry (and the media too), and pointing out the hypocrisy in the way she was treated by them in life and how they are now treating her in death. It’s more a rallying cry against them than anything else. That’s how I read it anyway. I totally concur that he has made a long, long rod for his own back over the years, with his views and utterances. But on this occasion I think he can be partly justified in what he said and the passionate way in which he went about expressing it. I’ll give him that.
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Paint a Vulgar Picture, he wrote a song about it didn’t he.

Anyway RIP Sinead O’Connor: I don’t know her music particularly but the posts and anecdotes related on this thread show that she was a good sort.
 
John Ferguson photographer.
HAVE YOU GOT A FAG, 'ME MAN!
Halfway through my photo shoot with the talented Sinead O’Connor in London some years back; “I’m grasping for a fag, have you got any my man”.
I didn’t smoke back then, and a little panicked I asked around the studio, including her PR agent at the time if there were any spare cigs for Sinead.
Luckily my brilliant assistant on the day, Nick, offered to run down, we were in a photo studio near London Bridge, and he bought her a pack of Marlboro Lights.
I asked her if we could carry on the shoot whilst waiting for Nick to come back? Which she did, but I only managed to get a couple of frames off before she wanted to stop again for a break.
She wanted to talk to me, rather than me take any pictures, which was lovely, but I could see her PR agent just wanted to get the shoot over and done with, as they had another appointment after mine.
But most agents / PR and managers were like this, always in a massive rush. “Can we get this done asap” was always their stock answer. I’ve missed out on some glorious opportunities because of rushed celebrity shoots. So I took my time with Sinead, So I said, yes no problem, we’ll wait for Nick to get back with her cigarettes before starting again”.
Much to the disappointment of the PR, who I’d met before on other celebrity shoots, so I was easy with it.
But in saying this, I still hadn’t got the image (and never did) get the shot I was after, she was agitated and restless up to the point of waiting for her cigarettes to arrive, so having a little break and chat and a cig seemed to settle her down. It also transpired that I knew her third husband, so we kinda bonded over this, and I was able to tell her how he was doing at the time.
I’ve photographed hundreds of celebrities over my years in the entertainment industry, but this shoot was definitely a different experience photographing Sinead, not in a bad or strange way, just in a different way. She certainly had a presence.
I was honoured to meet her and to spend some time with her. I’m really sad to hear that she has now passed, and so young too.
What a talent, and yet so troubled, like so many female singers before her. She's now at peace and her memory will long last with many, it certainly will with me.


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Tears still rolling down my cheeks every time i listen to Sinead singing 'the first time ever i saw your face' in the above link. There was something truly divine about her inspiring life and voice. It is definitely a darker world now. RIP
 
Possibly her last emotional video from her new apartment with her "Johnny Cash guitar that she was going to write some new tunes on"

"trying to film a fucking video on the phone fucking 4k fucking HD what the fucking hell is he talking about"
well it is emotional :)

 
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This is a real nice live one but disappears from youtube regular due to Letterman copyright or I guess their past but they have put it back up Sinead with Van Morrison and the Chieftains 1995 I guess Van is difficult to duet with he rarely sings songs the same way twice or he perhaps was just drunk
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Just been reading about SO, who I expected would have been fabulously wealthy but unfortunately, due to mismanagement and poor decisions she's died with a net worth of under a million quid.
 
Spymaster said:
Just been reading about SO, who I expected would have been fabulously wealthy but unfortunately, due to mismanagement and poor decisions she's died with a net worth of under a million quid.
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Well her career and earning potential as a global pop star certainly wasnt so good after the pope photo ripping up incident and other controversial interviews . many U.S states banning her etc and her later live tours were not always possible due to her metal health but as she put it herself she didnt destroy her career only the career they wanted for her and the houses the record companies wanted to buy for themselves
Under a million is shocking though considering her popularity . royalties and the tours she did do usually sold out :(


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Kris Kristofferson has just gone up in my estimation, as does Sinead, the more I read about her. What a fucking incredibly brave and powerful woman.



And then a few days later, she’s invited to the Dylan concert at the Garden [where she was loudly booed by the crowd]. I was there and I will never forget what Kris Kristofferson did for her. He hugged her, he put his arm around her, and he really got her through it. That was beautiful.
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The first day she landed, we decided to have dinner. We were going downtown, and I don’t know who made the decision to have a limousine but she wouldn’t get in. She wanted to go in a van.
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Live, she would always have hip-hop artists opening for her. That was her thing. No one was doing that. Not the commercial producers, but the really rock, hip-hop, political people in the business that had a voice – she gave them a voice and she had them opening for her. She befriended [Public Enemy’s] Hank Shocklee.
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www.theguardian.com

‘No one knew what to do’: when Sinéad O’Connor ripped up the pope’s photo on TV – the inside story

Record label executive Daniel Glass remembers the infamous 1992 SNL appearance that resulted in the artist becoming ‘totally cancelled’
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
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Kris Kristofferson has just gone up in my estimation, as does Sinead, the more I read about her. What a fucking incredibly brave and powerful woman.








www.theguardian.com

‘No one knew what to do’: when Sinéad O’Connor ripped up the pope’s photo on TV – the inside story

Record label executive Daniel Glass remembers the infamous 1992 SNL appearance that resulted in the artist becoming ‘totally cancelled’
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Record label executive Daniel Glass sounds like a right shithead.
Two years ago, her manager Fachtna Ó Ceallaigh reached out and asked if I’d be interested [in working with her again]. I felt at that moment – not judging the music – that we had two beautiful runs together and I can’t do it again. I have a higher tolerance for artistic freedom and integrity and license and most people don’t. And I was right, because the world now is so woke, and so less open to chance, to open voices, than they were then. And I don’t regret my decision not to do that dance again.
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Unless I've missed it I haven't yet seen a tribute to Sinead on telly. They often rush them out very soon after someone dies. I'm disappointed.
 
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