Sinéad O’connor

She was defined by a single performance, Looking back, it was apparent right her first in the global spotlight. then that this wouldn’t be the first Sinéad O’connor’s rendition page of a happy story. O’connor, of Prince’s Nothing Compares 2 U, always a reluctant celebrity, released in 1990, introduced us to seemed determined not to capitalise an extraordinary voice. But it was on her early success. The cracks the video, delivered point-blank were always growing, and after her into the lens, that made the deepest teenage son took his own life in impression. When, towards the 2022, O’connor seemed to break. end, a single tear rolled down this In her final tweet, a few days before beautiful, fragile skinhead’s pale her death, she wrote: ‘He was the cheek, the world held its breath. love of my life, the lamp of my soul.’ George Alagiah Joss Ackland Mohamedal-fayed Martinamis Kenneth Anger Burt Bacharach Lord Balniel Jeff Beck

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