Nothing compares to Sinéad O'Connor: Film shines a light on late singer
Sinéad O'Connor was cancelled before cancel culture was a thing, and a recent documentary focused on the period in the early 1990s when she became such a controversial figure in the US
Sinéad O'Connor used her platform to speak out: one of the subjects on which she took a stand was American foreign policy
Singer Sinéad O'Connor has died at the age of 56. This feature was first published on September 29, 2022.
In August 1990, Sinéad O’Connor was the world’s most vilified pop star. Five months previously she had topped the US charts with her cover of Prince’s 'Nothing Compares 2 U'. But rather than embrace celebrity in its many flavours of shallowness, she used her platform to speak out.
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