On her final tour in 2020, Sinead O’Connor performed ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ after years of choosing not to play her signature hit. The footage from that tour is breathtaking.
arrived Wednesday afternoon. Details are scant, but O’Connor had battled mental health problems for years. She was just 56.
“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad,” her family wrote in a statement. “Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time.” O’Connor was a prolific artist who released 10 albums between 1987 and 2014, and she landed many hits on the European charts, including “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” “Mandinka,” “Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home,” and “Three Babies.” But her defining moment came in 1990, when she covered Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” on her second LP,The song shot to Number One all across the planet and transformed O’Connor into a superstar.
The experience soured her on Prince for the rest of her life. And in 2015, she told fans she was going to stop playing “Nothing Compares 2 U” at her concerts. “I don’t want audiences to be disappointed coming along to a show and then not hearing it, so I am letting you know here that you won’t,” she wrote on Facebook. “If I were to sing it just to please people, I wouldn’t be doing my job right, because my job is to be emotionally available. I’d be lying. You’d be getting a lie.
Four years later, she changed her mind and started playing the song again. “You’ve got to be crazy to be a musician,”
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