Tag: Sinead O’connor

The Canonization of Saint Sinead

“Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.”Joan of Arc, 1400s “Put your fucking seatbelts on ’cause I haven’t finished yet.”Sinead O’Connor, SPIN 1992 Sometime in Fall 1987, in the dark, late night of a Manhattan short-term office rental, SPIN founder and editor-in-chief Bob Guccione Jr. was digging through trash. This was a […]

November 9, 2020
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Sinéad O’Connor Returns With Powerful Cover of Mahalia Jackson’s ‘Trouble of the World’

Sinéad O’Connor is back with her first song since contributing “Trouble Soon Be Over” to the 2015’s Tribute To Blind Willie Johnson compilation. Her latest song is another cover — Mahalia Jackson’s “Trouble of the World” — with all profits from the song’s sales set to be donated to Black Lives Matter charities. “[F]or me the song isn’t about death […]

October 2, 2020
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