RIP: Sinead O'Conner, 56

[thewayne]

Wow. 56. No cause listed, but as the pretty extensive Rolling Stone obit notes, her 17 y/o son took his own life 18 months ago, definitely a significant event.

Sinead had been recording and making songs for a very long time, and fighting to be her own person from a young age. She didn't break out until she covered the Prince song, Nothing Compares (To You). She made international headlines by tearing a photo of the Pope in half on Saturday Night Live, which seriously hurt her career for quite a number of years. Very controversial woman.

Quite sad, I feel she had a lot of good music left to give us.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/sinead-oconnor-dead-obituary-200764/

Comments

[white_aster]

Very sad. She was ahead of her time, really. I remember her being cast as unreasonably upset about things that no one else was upset about, "making a fuss over nothing", but she was not wrong. Cultural sensitivity and sexual abuse and colonization...her concerns were just a few decades ahead of everyone else.

[thewayne]

nods in agreement  Yep, that's not a bad summation.