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Sinead O'Connor will compose and perform original music for "Remembrance," a play by Irish writer Graham Reid about the emotional toll of violence in Northern Ireland. The drama, running from Sept. 25-Nov. 2 at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles, will feature a pre-recorded version of O'Connor's work; the material will draw upon sean-nos, an ancient Irish music that features a cappella singing in Gaelic and English . . . A tribute to Marc Bolan will be held Oct. 3-4 at New York nightspot the Fez. Among the artists taking part in the event, which marks the 20th anniversary of Bolan's death, will be Joey Ramone, Lloyd Cole, Patti Rothberg, Richard Lloyd, and Richard Barone.
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Sinead O'Connor's first album, The Lion and The Cobra was released in 1987, and its popular and critical acclaim made her a star of pop music. She produced her second album, a critical success that included her hit single "Nothing Compares 2 U," a song written by Prince. O'Connor was as well-known for her political beliefs as for her music (she once shredded a photo of Pope John Paul II on U.S. television), but in recent years she has been less publicly controversial. In 2003 she announced her retirement from the music business.
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Eventually to the main event, and Sinead O'Connor put in a performance to be eternally proud of. She marked out the evening ahead for the audience by pointing out that the "Irish stuff" would be done first and then she'd get to the old numbers. The opening song was a beautifully tender version of "Peggy Gordon" and, had the other Mary not coughed her lungs up throughout, you could have heard a pin drop. There followed a few numbers from the current album "Sean Nos Nua", the highlights being "My Lagan Love" and a rousing rendition of "O ro Se Do Bheatha 'Bhaile" with Sinead reminding us that we should have learnt it in school and to sing along, which almost everyone did.
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Sinead O'Connor brought theology to Massey Hall Saturday night. Theology, the title of her latest double-CD, is a return to her own songs and sound following 2005's Throw Down Your Arms, a CD of reggae covers. Her previous album, which brought her to the Kool Haus last June with rhythm duo Sly and Robbie, was well received. But her fans ... craved her hits. Saturday's show did not disappoint.
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When Sinead O'Connor was fifteen Paul Byrne (a drummer for Irish band Tua Nua) heard her singng at a wedding. That was the start of her music career. The next year she ran-away from school, started singing in coffeehouses, and enrolled at Dublin's College of Music.
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[O]ne day Sinead O'Connor said she was pregnant and that the father of her child was the pope. The Vatican replied back there's no way the Pope was the father of O'Connor's child, since O'Connor was a lesbian and the pope didn't think bald chicks were all that hot. When she finally gave birth, DNA paternity tests proved that the pope wasn't the father. Also, the fact her child had Asian features proved the pope wasn't the father. This just caused O'Connor to say that a secret Vatican organization had snuck into her vagina one night while she was sleeping and had tampered with her baby's DNA.
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