Tragically Sinéad O’Connor has passed away and many people have commented on her life. Lily Allen and Russel Crowe being just two of them.
Sinéad O’Connor was renowned for her iconic single “Nothing Compares 2 U,” released in 1990, which topped charts worldwide.
Sinéad O’Connor Lily Allen
Lily Allen simply wrote: “The world really did a number on Sinead O’Oconnor. RIP Angel.”
Russell Crowe
Actor Russell Crowe shared a chance meeting with the legendary singer.
He wrote the following thread.
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“Last year, working in Ireland, having a pint in the cold outside a Dalkey pub with some new friends, a woman with purpose strode past us. Puffy parker zipped to the nape and her bowed head covered in a scarf. One of my new friends muttered an exclamation, jumped up
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“and pursued the woman. Thirty metres down the road the friend and the woman embraced and he waived me over. There under streetlights with mist on my breath, I met Sinéad. She looked in my eyes, and uttered with disarming softness “ oh, it’s you Russell”.
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“She came with us back to the table and sat in the cold and ordered a hot tea. In a conversation without fences we roamed through the recent Dublin heatwave, local politics, American politics, the ongoing fight
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“for indigenous recognition in many places, but particularly in Australia, her warm memory of New Zealand, faith, music, movies and her brother the writer. I had the opportunity to tell her she was a hero of mine.
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“When her second cup was taking on the night air, she rose, embraced us all and strode away into the fog-dimmed streetlights. We sat there the four of us and variously expressed the same thing. What an amazing woman.
“Peace be with your courageous heart Sinéad.”
