On Wednesday, a host of musicians came together to honor late Irish legends Shane MacGowan and Sinead O’Connor with a tribute concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Most notably, O’Connor’s daughter, Roisin Waters, […]
Bratz is celebrating Women’s History Month by unveiling a concept doll in tribute to Sinéad O’Connor. Honoring O’Connor just eight months after she passed away, the doll depicts the “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer with […]
Sinéad O’Connor died of natural causes according to a coroner’s statement. She’s pictured above performing in Vancouver, Canada in the late 1980s. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty […]
Last year, two longtime figureheads of Ireland’s music scene died: Sinéad O’Connor in July at age 56 and the Pogues singer Shane MacGowan in December at age 65. Now, New York City’s Carnegie Hall is […]
An all-star Sinéad O’Connor and Shane MacGowan tribute concert will take place in New York City this spring. The one-night-only tribute show goes down just after St. Patrick’s Day on March 20th at Carnegie Hall, […]
I first crossed paths with Sinéad at some point in 1985, when she had just collaborated with The Edge from U2 on a song called Heroine. She came to a party at his house and […]
A clifftop tribute to Sinéad O’Connor has been unveiled outside the late singer’s hometown. An installation honouring the late Nothing Compares 2 U singer was unveiled on Bray Head in County Wicklow on Sunday. The […]
Pink paid tribute to “brave” Sinéad O’Connor for a second time during her most recent show. During her performance in New York on Thursday night as part of her Summer Carnival tour, the So What […]
Sir Bob Geldof have revealed he received texts “laden with desperation and despair” from Sinéad O’Connor weeks before her death. The Boomtown Rats frontman paid tribute to the Nothing Compares 2 U singer onstage during […]
‘If she were starting out now, she’d still be ahead of her time’ I am full of tears this morning, like so many others in Ireland. As a young Irish male musician in the 80s, […]
During their set at Fuji Rock on Saturday, Foo Fighters brought out special guest Alanis Morissette to assist with a tribute to the late Sinéad O’Connor. They performed a collaborative cover of “Mandinka” from O’Connor’s […]
After the sad news of Sinead O’Connor’s death, the acclaimed Irish singer-songwriter’s 1990 Number 1 single, Nothing Compares 2 U, is predicted to re-enter the Top 40 at Number 12. Billie Eilish’s Barbie anthem What […]
Foo Fighters and Alanis Morissette honored Sinead O’Connor by teaming up for a live cover of “Mandinka.” The collaborative performance came during Foo Fighters’ set at Japan’s Fuji Rock Festival on Saturday, July 29th. In […]
The death of Sinead O’Connor at 56 this week came as a surprise to most, but the legendary Irish pop star did forewarn her children about one thing in the event of her passing: Tell […]
This week your social media timeline was probably flooded with images of Sinéad O’Connor, the Irish singer-songwriter who died Wednesday at 56, providing a contrast to all those bright “Barbie” memes. Though her mainstream career […]
Tori Amos, like many of us, is mourning Sinead O’Connor, who died on Wednesday (July 26th) at the age of 56. During her show in San Francisco that evening, Amos paid tribute to the Irish […]
Before Sinéad O’Connor was found dead in her London home Wednesday, she’d told her children what to do if she passed away suddenly. “I’ve always instructed my children since they were very small, ‘If your […]
At the record label Chrysalis in New York, we had a Wednesday marketing meeting every week. I was a young executive and the president came in and said, “I just came back from England and […]
Watch: P!nk and Brandi Carlile Honor Sinéad O’Connor in Cincinnati with “Nothing Compares 2 U” Alex H. Krinsky on July 27, 2023 Photo by Danny Clinch Yesterday, the music world was struck with the news […]
Since the loss of the luminously talented Sinéad O’Connor, a deluge of condolences and tributes have poured in — but The Smiths frontman and perennial provocateur Morrissey isn’t convinced by the sudden admiration. In a […]