Sinead O'Connor: Forgive…And Forget
Mark Cooper, Q, March 1990
She arrived in '87, all Doc Marten's and radical chic, disparaging those who'd helped her, declaring support for the IRA. Now there's a new Sinead O'Connor – penitent, approachable, but no less emotionally direct.
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