The Cranberries - Promises live & Zombie live.
@ NPA, Paris, TV Show, 03/01/1999. "Zombie" is a protest song by The Cranberries. The incendiary song was written in response to the 1993 IRA bombings of Warrington, Cheshire, where two children, Jonathan Ball (3) and Tim Parry (12) were killed and over 50 people were injured.
- "1916" : The Easter Rising in Ireland. The events of Easter 1916 are of seminal importance in Irish history.
- Dolores O'Riordan: “The IRA are not me. I’m not the IRA. The Cranberries are not the IRA. My family are not. When it says in the song, ”It’s not me, it’s not my family”, that’s what I’m saying." [VOX Magazine, 1995]
- The IRA is devoted both to removing British forces from Northern Ireland and to unifying Ireland. Traditional IRA activities have included bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, punishment beatings, extortion, smuggling, and robberies. [trackingterrorism.org]
- Allen Kovac, former manager, says Island Records urged them not to release it as a single. (In his telling, she ripped up a $1 million check the label offered her to work on another song.) [rollingstone.com]
- The Cranberries were formed in Ireland in 1990 and have sold more than 40 million albums worldwide. Dolores O'Riordan (6 September 1971 - 15 January 2018), was known for her distinctive mezzo soprano voice.
Vocal Range: B2 - C6 [ therangeplace.b... ]
* Monday, 15 January 2018. "Irish and international singer Dolores O’Riordan has died suddenly in London's Hilton Park Lane hotel today." She was 46 years old. In a official statement released by her publicist Lindsey Holmes, 19 Jan 2018, it read: "Whilst the primary purpose of Dolores’s trip to London last Sunday evening, January 14, was for a studio mixing session on Monday and Tuesday with Martin “Youth” Glover on a recently recorded D.A.R.K. album, it has emerged that while in London she was also due to meet with The Cranberries record label, BMG to discuss plans for the release of a new Cranberries studio album that she had been working on with the band in recent months."
At 1.12am, at the London Hilton on Park Lane, London, Dolores left two voicemail messages for Dan Waite, her label executive. In her messages, O’Riordan talked lovingly about her kids, expressed her thrill at the Eminem sample and sang a snippet of the Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony” (which Youth had produced). The late Cranberries star sounding excited and full of enthusiasm, and she offered to sing on a cover of her song Zombie by a metal band. She phoned her mother at around 3am. The mother-of-three was found unresponsive in the bathroom and confirmed dead at 9.16am on Monday, January 15. [* Lindsey Holmes Publicity - Inquest at Westminster Coroner's Court in London - Dan Waite]
Dolores O’Riordan had previously discussed being sexually abused from the age of 8 to 12 by a family friend and how she suffered from anorexia.
* Monday, 22 January 2018. Ms O’Riordan’s heartbroken mother Eileen and her six siblings accompanied her dark wooden coffin into St Joseph’s Church, which was decorated with white roses and photographs of the deeply religious star performing on stage. [thesun.ie] ... The singer - holding a pair of rosaries of pearls - was lying in an open coffin inside St. Joseph's Church in the city. In a tribute normally reserved for Presidents, Popes, and heads of State, O’Riordan’s remains lay in an open coffin in a four-hour public reposing at St Joseph’s Church, Limerick, Ireland. [irishtimes.com] ... A black glittery top peeps out from behind the frills of the casket’s shroud. Dark eyeshadow matches her raven hair. [limerickleader.ie]
Mourners from all over the world also gathered to pay their respects. Fans said O’Riordan who was laid out in an open coffin wearing black and holding a set of pearl rosary beads looked “at peace” [independent.ie]
A floral tribute left next to the singer's coffin, from her Cranberries bandmates - brothers Noel and Mike Hogan and Fergal Lawler - read: “The song has ended, but the memories linger on.” [thesun.ie]
Dolores, said Canon McNamara, had a voice of gold. She had a heart of gold too. He told how it was “impossible” to say how many people Dolores “rescued from darkness and sadness in their lives”. [irishtimes.com]
Dolores O'Riordan has been laid to rest in her native Limerick, Ireland, alongside her father, Terence O'Riordan.
* October 11, 2018 : Dolores O'Riordan named top female artist of all time in the 30-year history of Billboard’s alternative songs chart. Based on the top-performing women in the Billboard's charts archives, the late Dolores O’Riordan rules as the chart’s all-time top female artist (encompassing soloists, group frontwomen and women in duos). [Xander Zellner, October 11, 2018 billboard.com]
Dolores' impact on the music world remains strong.
The Cranberries Zombie Late Show With David Letterman Nov. 11, 1994 :
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