I have a higher tolerance for artistic freedom and integrity and license and most people don’t. I felt at that moment – not judging the music – that we had two beautiful runs together and I can’t do it again. Two years ago, her manager Fachtna Ó Ceallaigh reached out and asked if I’d be interested. No one judged the music, that’s what I was very pissed off about. It really did hurt her because she was speaking from the heart – she was an artist, and she had a very strong point of view. The fear of not playing a record, or not adding a record to your playlist? Give me a break. She was totally cancelled and then people would say, months and years later, “She was right, you know, we shouldn’t have done that.” The mob was horrible. He hugged her, he put his arm around her, and he really got her through it. I was there and I will never forget what Kris Kristofferson did for her. And then a few days later, she’s invited to the Dylan concert at the Garden. People were upset and we got blamed, as if we were complicit. Her hands were behind her back, she had her socks on and she was doing something between poetry and chanting. I went in and she was talking to herself. ‘That was beautiful’ … Kris Kristofferson comforts Sinéad O’Connor at Madison Square Garden. She was in a room by herself which was kind of sad and lonely, because it was a heavy moment in history. I don’t think she knew what she just had just done. We walked back to the artist’s dressing room. No one stopped it, no one knew what to do. The music producer Liz Welch went from jubilation to tears. We’re breathing.Īnd of course, the next performance was when she did War, and she ripped the picture of the pope. Anyway, first song, Steve Kingston and Brian Phillips – two of the most influential people in the world of alternative rock radio – look back at me and said, “We’re adding the record Monday.” Thumbs up. Sinéad was not getting a lot of love at the time – she was controversial, she hadn’t had a hit in a while. In 1992, she’s getting ready to release the album Am I Not Your Girl. The life and career of Sinéad O’Connor: ‘I was really a protest singer’ - video obituary That was the contradiction of fame and recognition. It’s respect.” She said, “ Please, I don’t want to hear it. Please tell him to take it off.” And I said to her very nicely, “It’s a homage. She got very upset and said to me, “If there was a hole in the ground, I would crawl into it right now. And then we got to Tower Records – the buzz was already out about Sinéad and a DJ was playing the record. We were going downtown, and I don’t know who made the decision to have a limousine but she wouldn’t get in. The first day she landed, we decided to have dinner. And you could see at that young age she was very torn about stardom and recognition. There were remixes of Mandinka and various other records – we had an MC Lyte version of I Want Your (Hands on Me). The key was getting it to go up the American college media charts, which it did and we took it to No 1. It came out and we promoted it in a very unorthodox way. When we heard The Lion and the Cobra it was one of the greatest meetings I’ve ever attended – it was staggering, this record. I was a young executive and the president came in and said, “I just came back from England and we signed a super talent.” I think she was 19 – it was Sinéad. At the record label Chrysalis in New York, we had a Wednesday marketing meeting every week.
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