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[audience applauding]

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[announcer]   All right.       
           I gotta tell you,

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I'm real proud to introduce    
            this next artist

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Ladies and gentlemen,       
            Sinéad O'Connor.

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Thank you.

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-[videotape squeals]        
     -[boos and cheers continue]

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[mysterious music]

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[Sinéad]   I didn't mean       
             to be strong.

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I did suffer through a lot    
         because everybody felt

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I regret that I was        
         so sad because of it.

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I regret that I spent       
             so many years

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Ran down            
         And the lady said it

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Got burned down, ooh

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Oh, oh, Jerusalem

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Oh, oh, Jerusalem

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[roars]

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There was no therapy       
         when I was growing up.

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Everybody in music has a story 
      in terms of their upbringing

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There's something they need    
        to get off their chest,

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They're all, they're all      
       looking at you, Sinéad,

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out there in television land.

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They're saying "Mother of God,

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what did she do with her head?

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That's a bit            
        exaggerated actually.

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That's in one year, of course.

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Some scarlet ribbons

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and I was like, "Oh, my God."

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and makes me want         
           to be a musician,

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and makes me           
         want to be an artist,

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because of the song        
       "Gotta Serve Somebody."

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And I was obsessed        
      with Bob Dylan from then on.

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My mother had this        
      fantastic record collection

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which she would spread out    
        on the dining room table

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Her musical tastes        
        ranged from John Lennon

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right through to, like,      
           Porgy and Bess.

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That was all that         
           was ever on telly,

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was these just high class     
          musicals, you know.

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My father was into cello,

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My parents separated       
        when I was quite young,

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and my mother           
      was a very violent woman,

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not a healthy woman        
            mentally at all.

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And she was physically

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[tense music]

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and I was able to soothe her   
             with my voice,

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My father is the type       
        of man that didn't want

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It wasn't talked about,      
          even in the family.

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The cause of my own abuse     
       was the church's effect

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on this country,          
    which had produced my mother.

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I spent my entire childhood    
            being beaten up

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under which my mother grew up

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and under which her mother    
        and her mother grew up.

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I would compare Ireland      
          to an abused child.

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I'd a terrible

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I'd a terrible

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Broken heart...

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that they were using       
         to oppress my people.

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Why were my grandparents     
              so miserable

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that they couldn't have a kiss

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[Father Brian]   The church     
          influenced everything.

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It affected            
        every level of society.

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It was a mortal sin        
        to eat meat on a Friday.

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You could go to hell for     
     eating a sausage on a Friday.

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Everything was gathered around

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the power of the church      
            over its people.

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[Sinéad]   I had loved        
          the Catholic church,

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That was a contract        
      with the holy spirit I made,

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[tense music]

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I went into care when I was 14,

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I was a bit messed up.

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I was unmanageable, really,    
 so they didn't want me at home.

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The place was called       
             "An Grianan,"           
       which means "The Sunrise."

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[Jeannette]   An Grianan was     
     a residential training centre

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The girls came          
        from mixed backgrounds.

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Others had come from       
        insecure family settings

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and they needed somewhere     
       where there was structure

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and safety for a few years.

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[Sinéad]   They got         
          a guitar teacher in

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who I still know         
          and I still talk to        
             now and then.

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[Jeannette]            
      The first night, I was there

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because we were just stunned.

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We needed to encourage her    
       in this wonderful talent.

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Ooh, I'm freezing!

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[Jeannette]   When we decided    
            to get married,

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One love

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It was stunning.         
      It was absolutely stunning.

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[Sinéad]   In the congregation    
      was her brother, Paul Byrne,

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[Paul]   We were           
        searching for a singer.

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After chatting with Sinéad    
      on the steps of the church,

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So we went back up        
             the next night          
         and she sang it to us,

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We had to book          
           a couple of hours         
        on a Wednesday afternoon

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Picked her up, did two hours   
          of vocals with her,

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the nun, she could        
           be terribly kind,

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She sent me to sleep       
          in the hospice part        
             of the laundry

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When I went up, there was     
 no staff there with the ladies.

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There was never          
          any nuns or nurses.

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were lying in their beds     
         calling out for nurses      
               all night

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I didn't know what to do,     
 and obviously, I was terrified.

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Take my hand

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[tense music]

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[Jeannette]   These women,

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Very often the cases were     
          they had been raped

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They had to pay the price

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and were locked away       
         for their whole lives.

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[Sinéad]   The whole of Ireland   
       talks about these ladies,

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These people convinced my     
     father that they could help me

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with whatever           
        behavioural issues I had

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The problems were compounded.

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My father, I'm sure        
      the world would acknowledge,

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Young woman           
       With a drink in her hand

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She liked to listen       
           To rock and roll

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'Cause it never gets old

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[Clodagh]   Sinéad          
         and I met when we were

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We were very close        
         for a number of years

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She really wanted         
         to be doing her music.

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[Sinéad]   I put an ad        
         in   Hot Press   magazine

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that I was a singer        
            and I wanted to          
          find a band to join.

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doing auditions for these     
        various different bands.

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I had a job at the Bad Ass Cafe   
            on Crown Alley,

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and we used to rehearse      
     right across the road from it.

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Nigel Grainge and Chris Hill   
          came over to Dublin

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[tense music]

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He said, "Well,          
      why don't you come to London

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For five long years

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But I found out

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You treated me mean

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Oh, you treated me cruel

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[Mike]   I worked with Sinéad    
       from her arrival in London

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Our job as a sort of group    
      of musicians from the outset

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She'd already found her voice,

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that she wanted to wrap      
       around that amazing voice.

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[man] What's it called?

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[John]   So we went into       
      a rehearsal studio in Putney

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and rehearse for a long time.

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Nigel Grange was the head     
         of Ensign at the time.

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I'm just as guilty as you

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[John]   The first time       
        I heard Sinéad's voice,

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And

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I'm just as guilty as you

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[Sinéad]   You often         
          hear artists saying

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I think actually         
      you're channelling yourself.

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There were kind of songs     
       to help her, to heal her.

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[Mike]   In some respects,      
     I think the band that we were,

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the band of musicians       
          who were around her,

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We were safe.

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Fachtna O'Ceallaigh had been   
         Boomtown Rats' manager

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[reggae music]

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where he had           
     his friend Lepkey, and Leroy.

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[Sinéad]   Bearing          
           in mind I'm Irish

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and I've come           
          from the theocracy,

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roaring about the Pope      
             is the devil,

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[upbeat music]

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Love to everyone. You're back   
   in tune to The Rankin' Miss P,

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on DBC, the Dread         
      Broadcasting Corporation,

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103.8 every Friday.

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We're electric, y'all.

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[upbeat drum music]

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[John]   She was really shy

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just being kids, to be honest.

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[Mike]   Ensign wanted Sinéad    
       to be a musical commodity.

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[Sinéad]   They wanted me      
         to grow the hair long

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there used to be riots      
       in the streets over plays.

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That's what art is for.

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[Mike]   That led to her deciding 
       to shave off all her hair.

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[mysterious music]

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[Clodagh]   At the time, I was    
       her closest female friend.

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You got to look          
        through the letter box,

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I looked through the letterbox 
           and there she was

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[dramatic music]

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[John]   The label were        
         trying to brand Sinéad

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You just looked at        
           somebody and went,

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It's a powerful statement     
     for a woman because she says,

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[Sinéad]   Me and John        
        were friends for a year

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before, you know, we ever     
       went out with each other.

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We were both going out      
         with different people       
            and everything.

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and then within a month      
            I was pregnant.

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The record companies       
             in those days           
         had their own doctors

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that they sent you to.

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[Mike]   Ensign tried        
            to dissuade her

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and thankfully, she        
      obviously stood her ground,

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[Sinéad]   That was         
        the final straw for me.

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[Mike]   There was a big fallout.

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Fachtna O'Ceallaigh        
         was working very hard

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telling me I owe it to them    
          to not have my baby.

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I just knew that I didn't     
        want any man telling me

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and I didn't take         
           it from my daddy,

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Can I do two?

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[humming]

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[John]   The whole of        
        "The Lion and the Cobra"

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The second version was fresher,   
       younger, and spontaneous.

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Hands, gimme love

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Hands, gimme those

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I want your

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Gimme, yes

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Gimme this

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[Sinéad]   When we got        
         the first album cover,

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Put on the album and got me    
 to scream along with the album.

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because it was too        
           aggressive-looking

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[Kate]   I didn't realize      
         that they'd have to do

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a different one for America.

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You know, that would       
         scare too many people.

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this little girl with her     
      bald head and her big belly,

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[Peaches]   I think her image     
      screamed more than feminism,

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beyond feminism at the time.

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I think it was just        
            like non-binary,

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Her fashion sense was like    
      35 years ahead of the time.

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[Maybury]   People found it     
        problematic just because

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but actually the beauty      
            of her features,

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the quality of her eyes,

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[Sinéad]   Anytime I worked     
           with John Maybury,

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The set makers, stylists,     
      the makeup people, you know,

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and they like           
          genuinely adored me.

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I felt so safe          
           and looked after.

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[relaxed music]

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[Maybury]   She recognized      
        in us kind of a sense of

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And she was free to be who    
      she wanted to be within that

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because everyone else was free 
      to be who they wanted to be.

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They were so inspiring      
          and still are to me,

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You couldn't           
          do that in Ireland.

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You'd have the shit kicked    
         out of you, you know?

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Let me live           
          'neath your spell

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That you do so well

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For you do

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Something to me

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That nobody else

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Can do

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[crowd cheering]

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Why I like performing       
     and why I like singing loud

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At the end of my day

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Than I find that you're there   
             When I wake

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Just like you          
           Said it would be

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Just like you          
           Said it would be

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Just like you          
           Said it would be

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Will you be my lover?

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[Sinéad]   There are a lot      
       of songs that I've written

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And "    Troy,"   I think       
           was the first one.

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It's also the first song     
               I've wrote

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Dublin in a rainstorm

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So once when I was        
           eight-and-a-half,

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the whole thing of sitting    
      in the long grass in summer

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So I'm out in the garden     
          in the fucking dark

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to this day, I don't mind     
         if it's day or night,

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but dusk, I don't like.

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And I'd be looking up       
           at the only window

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and I'd be screaming,       
       begging her to let me in.

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the house go dark.

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Every other song I'm writing   
         is about somebody else

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"Troy"   is the first song      
         I've written about me.

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It's not a song,         
       it's a fucking testament.

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And you should've        
          Left the light on

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Then I wouldn't have tried   
        You'd never have known

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And I wouldn't have       
          Pulled you tighter

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I wouldn't have screamed

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No, I can't let you go

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No, I wouldn't have       
           Pulled you to me

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You wouldn't have        
        Begged me to hold you

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Oh, oh

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"Troy"   is not safe.

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I don't need           
         to dig that up again.

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There would've been        
            no point writing

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and/or going around        
      the world screaming    "Troy"

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Make no difference       
             What you say

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You're still a liar

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You're still a liar

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You're still a liar

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[crowd cheering]

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[John]   Sinéad was pregnant     
         all through the making

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of "The Lion and the Cobra."

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And I think in many        
            ways, actually,

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There's nothing more deep     
         and real than a baby.

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And there's nothing more     
          fake and unimportant

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and a single   Mandinka       
        at 22 in the charts.

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[crowd cheering]

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[Clodagh]   I remember watching

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Sinéad on             
          Top of the Pops.

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I'm dancing the seven veils

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[vocalizing]

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I don't know no shame

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But I do know Mandinka

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I do know Mandinka

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I do know Mandinka

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I do

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[John]   When   "Mandinka"       
             was released,

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I said I do

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I swear I do...

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I just remember hearing      
       the voice and it's nothing

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Soon I can give         
           You my heart...

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[crowd cheering]

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Telling me he'd be home

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Sailed the seas         
         For a hundred years

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To me, it was like        
           the whole package.

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He said, "Your Jackie's gone 
       We got lost in the rain"

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And I ran to the beach

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Laughing at you...

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there's an intensity, almost    
    a rage burning inside of you.

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You're a small, demure,      
        quiet sort of person.

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If you're a woman         
      in particular, and unless

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you're very sort of timid     
        and you want to make

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When I leave Ireland,       
       it's virtually unheard of

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The Irish fucking constitution 
       still contains the wording

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So many people in this country,   
          women in particular,

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or be open about their anger.

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At that time in Ireland, women 
      weren't allowed to be angry.

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And I think that might've     
       been hard for some of them

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because, you know,        
 they had spent their whole life

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saying no to themselves.

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[man]   Tonight, the Grammy     
         awards are presenting

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comes from Ireland        
     and with her very first album,

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I'm dancing the seven veils

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[John]   I remember talking to    
     her the next day and she said,

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"Oh, my God, I went        
       on stage and Stevie Wonder

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So this was quite a leap,     
               you know.

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I don't know no shame

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But I do know Man-din-ka

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[Sinéad]   You know,         
 you're there and you're looking

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As I sang Mandinka,        
        I had "Jake's baby girl"

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on the back of my pants      
               and I had             
       Public Enemy logo painted

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[Chuck D]   I protested       
          the Grammy's in 1989

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that she was fake.

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she seriously           
         has issues with this.

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[crowd cheering and clapping]

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[Sinéad]              
        In one way, I loved it.

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In another way,          
        I was frightened by it.

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this identity and I didn't    
      feel like it was really me.

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I couldn't understand why     
        anyone liked my records.

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Let me tell you          
       how stupid I am. Um...

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We were sitting here        
        doing this interview

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So now I'm doing it.

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because I want to wear       
       red knickers, you know?

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-No.                
      -[mellow acoustic guitar]

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[John]   We got married       
       at the spiritualist centre    
            in Sloane Square

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I'd lost my dad and a sister.

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[music playing]

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[Margo]   In 1989, we filmed     
      Hush-a-Bye Baby   in Derry.

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She came over with John.

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who was just a toddler      
             at that stage.

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Of course, I only have       
        eyes for Lecce Loves.

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[both laugh]

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[both scream and laugh]

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[Margo]   We were trying       
      to contribute to the debate

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like so many thousands      
            of other women,

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especially young women.

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and about the obvious       
          trauma and awfulness

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And girls are made         
     to feel as if they're sluts

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and the contraceptive laws     
     and all that sort of thing

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[Margo]   In the 80s and 90s     
             and obviously           
        the decades before that,

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It was appalling.

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[Roísín]   There was         
        a sense of being in this

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you couldn't get condoms,     
        so this was a big issue.

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[man] It's quite a similar story 
       to your own, isn't it?

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Last time you told me that     
    there were certain attitudes    
             in Ireland.

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Yeah, except I had         
        a baby when I was 20

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And I was in a society that    
   doesn't look down on pregnancy

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who has no money          
   and no boyfriend and no support

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00:46:38,123 --> 00:46:44,043
I think I was in very...      
         nice circumstances

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[rock music playing]

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It seems years         
      Since you held the baby...

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you don't really expect      
          anything to happen.

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And I remember I was quite    
 taken aback by the whole thing,

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amused at the idea of me     
           sitting and doing         
           press conferences

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and things like that       
          because it was just

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and put my album out I was 20,

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And now I'm 23 which       
        is still extremely young

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00:47:31,683 --> 00:47:36,243
and I'm still developing      
          my "personality",         
         in inverted commas.

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And I'm still discovering     
          things about myself

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[John]   When the album   "I Do Not 
      Want What I Haven't Got",

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and he said, "This is like    
      reading somebody's diaries.

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I'm not putting it out."

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Well, I am far more        
         proud of this album

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[Maybury]   The way she grew     
             in confidence

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She's a powerful, sexual being.

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I think she was enjoying     
     playing with the gender roles,

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and the toughness of denim    
        or the Dr. Martin boots

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There's always          
      still this beautiful woman,

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She came to understand      
           the nature of what        
             we were doing

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[John] "The Nothing        
       Compares To You"   video,

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she came back with all      
          the rushes on a VHS

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and we've stuck it into      
           the video machine,        
           I was watching it.

378
00:49:46,483 --> 00:49:56,963
[Jerry]   The video was shot     
     both in studio and it was shot

379
00:50:02,883 --> 00:50:17,723
The extraordinary close-up    
           work that John did

380
00:50:19,243 --> 00:50:24,243
[gentle music]

381
00:50:24,283 --> 00:50:30,043
[Maybury]             
           In between takes,

382
00:50:30,083 --> 00:50:32,763
and light up a spliff,      
             and be bopping          
           around the studio.

383
00:50:36,083 --> 00:50:38,763
We weren't in a kind of      
       particularly sombre mood.

384
00:50:40,723 --> 00:50:48,403
Looking into my monitor,     
        looking down that lens,

385
00:50:49,603 --> 00:50:59,163
It was like, "Oh, okay,

386
00:51:02,363 --> 00:51:04,323
[Sinéad]   If you don't

387
00:51:04,363 --> 00:51:06,723
identify emotionally       
 with a song, you can't sing it.

388
00:51:27,443 --> 00:51:29,363
I didn't know I was        
         gonna cry singing it.

389
00:51:29,403 --> 00:51:31,003
I didn't cry in the studio,

390
00:51:31,043 --> 00:51:32,603
it was just because        
          of the big eye on me

391
00:51:32,643 --> 00:51:34,283
in the form of a camera.

392
00:51:39,003 --> 00:51:41,643
Every time I sing the song,    
         I think of my mother.

393
00:51:44,723 --> 00:51:57,763
I never stopped crying      
       for my mother for, Jesus,

394
00:51:57,803 --> 00:52:03,763
So yeah, I was thinking of her 
      and I suppose my subconscious

395
00:52:08,923 --> 00:52:13,803
I think it's funny that      
     the world fell in love with me

396
00:52:13,843 --> 00:52:20,683
I went and did a lot of crying

397
00:52:26,123 --> 00:52:41,763
[audience clapping]

398
00:52:41,803 --> 00:52:43,443
Good to see you. Will you     
      be number one on Monday?

399
00:52:43,483 --> 00:52:48,843
I don't know, you know.

400
00:52:48,883 --> 00:52:54,683
I don't want to          
         count my chickens.

401
00:52:54,723 --> 00:53:01,523
it doesn't really         
         make a difference,

402
00:53:01,563 --> 00:53:02,963
We shouldn't even be        
        thinking about this.

403
00:53:03,003 --> 00:53:07,843
Shouldn't even be         
      thinking about it, okay.

404
00:53:07,883 --> 00:53:13,323
[audience laughing]

405
00:53:13,363 --> 00:53:15,043
[John]               
       The song went number one,

406
00:53:15,083 --> 00:53:20,083
everywhere in the world      
              pretty much.

407
00:53:20,123 --> 00:53:23,923
And the winner is...        
          Sinéad O'Connor.

408
00:53:23,963 --> 00:53:31,803
-Sinéad O'Connor.         
          -Sinéad O'Connor.

409
00:53:32,763 --> 00:53:34,723
You know, peace.

410
00:53:34,763 --> 00:53:37,323
[upbeat music]

411
00:53:38,803 --> 00:53:41,323
[man]   It's Sinéad O'Connor.

412
00:53:43,043 --> 00:53:45,163
Sinéad,              
       "Nothing Compares To You."

413
00:53:47,443 --> 00:53:49,683
[Claire]   The level of when     
      "Nothing Compares To You"

414
00:53:49,723 --> 00:53:51,443
became a hit was extraordinary.

415
00:53:51,483 --> 00:53:53,043
It really was off the scale.

416
00:53:54,283 --> 00:53:57,643
She was the biggest thing.

417
00:53:57,683 --> 00:54:10,723
or Amy Winehouse,

418
00:54:15,603 --> 00:54:18,523
I didn't realize how huge     
   the single and the album were.

419
00:54:18,563 --> 00:54:21,603
I really didn't.

420
00:54:21,643 --> 00:54:24,043
and it said that          
         the record had been

421
00:54:24,083 --> 00:54:27,323
something like the fourth     
       biggest record in America,

422
00:54:27,363 --> 00:54:32,883
I nearly dropped dead.

423
00:54:32,923 --> 00:54:40,883
She was suddenly a major act.

424
00:54:43,763 --> 00:54:44,803
Hello!

425
00:54:47,603 --> 00:54:55,443
The tour got bigger and bigger 
          instead of theatres,

426
00:54:55,483 --> 00:55:01,843
It seems like years       
       Since you held the baby

427
00:55:01,883 --> 00:55:21,803
You said it was         
        Dangerous after Sunday

428
00:55:21,843 --> 00:55:26,003
but this is going         
           to be really good.

429
00:55:34,283 --> 00:55:54,323
I am stretched         
            On your grave

430
00:55:57,243 --> 00:56:09,043
My apple tree          
            My brightness

431
00:56:12,483 --> 00:56:25,683
For I smell of the earth

432
00:56:25,723 --> 00:56:33,803
we did a place in New Jersey.

433
00:56:33,843 --> 00:56:48,283
Sinéad got to hear        
           about it, and said

434
00:56:48,323 --> 00:56:50,723
we won't play it."

435
00:56:50,763 --> 00:56:55,843
And I thought,          
        "Oh, this is going to be     
         everywhere tomorrow."

436
00:56:55,883 --> 00:57:16,843
"Oh, God, have you        
           seen the papers?"

437
00:57:16,883 --> 00:57:20,563
With American soldiers      
            on foreign soil

438
00:57:20,603 --> 00:57:25,123
patriotism is running       
            at fever pitch.

439
00:57:25,163 --> 00:57:26,923
the National Anthem        
           on our station

440
00:57:26,963 --> 00:57:32,123
to support the troops       
      over in the Middle East,

441
00:57:32,163 --> 00:57:36,843
The wrong time, the wrong place

442
00:57:36,883 --> 00:57:38,083
within her own management,

443
00:57:38,123 --> 00:57:40,243
"Sinéad, shut up."

444
00:57:40,283 --> 00:57:56,683
[caller 1]             
        You don't like America,      
         then get the hell out.

445
00:57:56,723 --> 00:58:01,883
She wants the money,        
   the fame and the glorification.

446
00:58:01,923 --> 00:58:04,363
[Irish newsreader]   One extreme   
       patriot is Frank Sinatra,

447
00:58:04,403 --> 00:58:09,163
who said he would         
         like to kick her ass.

448
00:58:09,203 --> 00:58:11,483
to kick her ass",         
         says Sinéad 's father,      
             John O'Connor.

449
00:58:15,043 --> 00:58:16,683
[Claire]   As soon          
         as someone highlighted

450
00:58:16,723 --> 00:58:20,043
that it had to be played,     
             she would say,

451
00:58:20,083 --> 00:58:36,043
and why are you          
        telling me what to do?"

452
00:58:36,083 --> 00:58:46,603
I'm looking at you. I'm thinking 
       14 in the side pocket.

453
00:58:46,643 --> 00:58:51,403
and the suffering in        
        the world right now.

454
00:58:51,443 --> 00:58:55,683
Come on, swing baby,        
          you're platinum.          
          Forget the head.

455
00:58:55,723 --> 00:59:03,923
Put a bag over it         
        and do your business.

456
00:59:03,963 --> 00:59:06,123
You're supposed to have      
     long hair wear push-up bras

457
00:59:06,163 --> 00:59:09,243
and lip gloss, you know,      
        and shut up and sing.

458
00:59:09,283 --> 00:59:13,563
Maybe if I was a man,       
          there wouldn't be         
        such a fuss about it

459
00:59:13,603 --> 00:59:15,283
It's just not expected       
       of women, I don't know.

460
00:59:15,323 --> 00:59:23,883
But then nothing about me,     
 particularly, in people's minds,

461
00:59:23,923 --> 00:59:36,323
that they have           
        because I'm a woman.

462
00:59:36,363 --> 00:59:40,603
I don't think it was a situation 
        being wrong or right.

463
00:59:40,643 --> 00:59:44,443
in the way that I felt       
    would be most true to myself.

464
00:59:44,483 --> 00:59:58,803
I didn't mean to offend anybody.

465
00:59:58,843 --> 01:00:02,043
and people like that

466
01:00:02,083 --> 01:00:16,923
and what they may         
       or may not write about.

467
01:00:16,963 --> 01:00:20,163
who are very offensive as well,

468
01:00:20,203 --> 01:00:25,043
So it leaves me          
         thinking that it's

469
01:00:25,083 --> 01:00:27,043
So, you know,           
         if it happened now,

470
01:00:27,083 --> 01:00:35,883
I might've reacted         
         in a different way,

471
01:00:35,923 --> 01:00:47,123
well, you didn't          
         not take the money.

472
01:00:47,163 --> 01:00:48,723
I don't perform or make      
       records or do anything

473
01:00:48,763 --> 01:00:50,163
in order to make money.

474
01:00:50,203 --> 01:01:01,003
It's not the thing that I hold

475
01:01:01,043 --> 01:01:13,723
So we're going to wave it at her 
       and see what she does.

476
01:01:15,923 --> 01:01:17,683
[Sinéad]              
     It's a very patriotic country.

477
01:01:17,723 --> 01:01:23,043
And a lot of people        
             have been told

478
01:01:23,083 --> 01:01:25,443
which is very irresponsible    
       on behalf of the media,

479
01:01:25,483 --> 01:01:29,283
because that does         
     put a person in a situation

480
01:01:29,323 --> 01:01:32,523
where literally          
    their life could be at risk.

481
01:01:32,563 --> 01:01:35,123
[atmospheric music]

482
01:01:35,163 --> 01:01:52,763
[John]   When the press        
         started to attack her

483
01:01:56,523 --> 01:01:57,883
[singing]

484
01:01:57,923 --> 01:02:08,483
Margaret Thatcher on TV

485
01:02:08,523 --> 01:02:15,763
[John]               
              She's always           
          championed justice.

486
01:02:16,883 --> 01:02:48,923
[singing]

487
01:02:48,963 --> 01:03:00,523
And that's why I'm leaving

488
01:03:03,203 --> 01:03:08,283
Young mother          
          Down at Smithfield

489
01:03:08,323 --> 01:03:14,683
5:00 a.m., looking for food   
           For her kids...

490
01:03:14,723 --> 01:03:17,523
when she wrote that song,     
      you know, it was around us,

491
01:03:17,563 --> 01:03:26,883
you know, that kind of police   
      versus the Black community.

492
01:03:26,923 --> 01:03:28,323
[Sinéad]              
       I write songs about things

493
01:03:28,363 --> 01:03:30,283
that I feel strongly about.

494
01:03:30,323 --> 01:03:33,683
It's not consciously       
       to write a political song

495
01:03:33,723 --> 01:03:39,723
And I think that that's      
      what every person's duty

496
01:03:39,763 --> 01:03:46,083
when they think          
         something's wrong.

497
01:03:46,123 --> 01:03:49,843
I imagine so.

498
01:03:52,523 --> 01:03:54,323
I'm an Irish artist,

499
01:03:54,363 --> 01:03:57,843
and there's a tradition      
          among Irish artists

500
01:03:57,883 --> 01:03:59,883
You know, whether         
     they're playwrights or poets.

501
01:04:02,083 --> 01:04:04,883
An artists job          
         is sometimes to create

502
01:04:04,923 --> 01:04:09,443
the difficult conversations    
          that need to be had.

503
01:04:09,483 --> 01:04:11,563
what anyone thinks of me     
            when I do that.

504
01:04:12,403 --> 01:04:14,323
[chanting]

505
01:04:16,323 --> 01:04:28,043
[newsreader]   The right       
         to choose an abortion,

506
01:04:28,083 --> 01:04:31,283
Abortion will be legalized     
     in this country very soon.

507
01:04:31,323 --> 01:04:33,083
Let's have another referendum

508
01:04:33,123 --> 01:04:47,963
when only women          
      of childbearing age vote

509
01:04:48,003 --> 01:04:50,603
The church deliberately      
       distract us from that,

510
01:04:50,643 --> 01:05:03,443
by making it into         
       an either anti or for,

511
01:05:06,323 --> 01:05:08,563
[Elaine]   I never felt        
         that Sinéad would cave

512
01:05:08,603 --> 01:05:30,323
to any pressure. Ever.

513
01:05:30,363 --> 01:05:32,883
It is the creative community    
      that are driven by greed.

514
01:05:32,923 --> 01:05:37,643
That's why none of them      
         are saying anything

515
01:05:37,683 --> 01:05:40,403
It's why nobody has said      
       anything about the war.

516
01:05:40,443 --> 01:05:45,003
[Elaine]   When Sinéad refused    
       to perform at the Grammys,

517
01:05:45,043 --> 01:05:50,403
As if that were even possible.

518
01:05:50,443 --> 01:05:54,723
but I felt that my career     
 could certainly be in jeopardy,

519
01:05:54,763 --> 01:05:56,323
and Sinéad's as well.

520
01:05:56,363 --> 01:05:58,203
These were powerful people    
            in the industry.

521
01:06:01,523 --> 01:06:04,443
[Chuck D]   I didn't think      
        that the powers that be      
          were ready for her.

522
01:06:06,003 --> 01:06:12,603
Where she's from,

523
01:06:12,643 --> 01:06:15,363
but maybe in different genres,

524
01:06:15,403 --> 01:06:21,963
and not so much          
          as a pop superstar.

525
01:06:28,043 --> 01:06:32,843
Okay, so this is          
         my favourite place         
          in the universe,

526
01:06:32,883 --> 01:06:41,483
All the Rastas live there,

527
01:06:44,723 --> 01:06:57,243
The object of my game       
            coming into the          
           music business was

528
01:06:57,283 --> 01:06:59,363
And also, I suppose,       
      spiritually true to myself,

529
01:06:59,403 --> 01:07:01,363
do you know what I mean?

530
01:07:01,403 --> 01:07:08,243
The music business can be     
       a bit of a vampiric arena.

531
01:07:08,283 --> 01:07:09,763
[Sinéad] Gary.

532
01:07:09,803 --> 01:07:11,043
-Yes?               
         -Say hello to Jake.

533
01:07:11,083 --> 01:07:12,363
-Him Jake.             
       -[Sinéad] That's Gary.

534
01:07:12,403 --> 01:07:13,403
Maybe we'll get          
          to see you, Jake.

535
01:07:13,443 --> 01:07:22,683
[Sinéad] He's really mad.

536
01:07:22,723 --> 01:07:30,803
as if you're in          
         a popularity contest,

537
01:07:30,843 --> 01:07:33,923
[instrumental music]

538
01:07:38,043 --> 01:07:43,283
That was the last one,       
             wasn't it?

539
01:07:43,323 --> 01:07:46,043
-[man] Yes.            
       -[Sinéad]   I didn't want      
      to fall into that trap then

540
01:07:46,083 --> 01:07:53,923
of you know,           
          the follow up album        
       to the number one, single.

541
01:07:53,963 --> 01:07:58,283
all of a sudden          
         you could go in there

542
01:07:58,323 --> 01:07:59,923
[trumpets blasting]

543
01:08:03,523 --> 01:08:15,283
Let's listen back and make     
   sure we love this arrangement.

544
01:08:15,323 --> 01:08:18,843
this was a great antidote,    
        really to what happened.

545
01:08:18,883 --> 01:08:29,923
And it had the most amazing    
     team of arrangers, musicians,

546
01:08:44,843 --> 01:08:55,443
We used to go out walking

547
01:08:55,483 --> 01:09:00,123
You had planned...

548
01:09:00,163 --> 01:09:09,323
It was just astonishing      
            being in a room

549
01:09:09,363 --> 01:09:16,163
and I couldn't see myself     
         as being anyway good.

550
01:09:16,203 --> 01:09:24,843
Am I not your girl?

551
01:09:30,683 --> 01:09:47,963
[Sinéad]   There were things     
        going on in my own life.

552
01:09:50,523 --> 01:09:57,483
Basically fucking everything   
      I had been raised to believe   
               was a lie.

553
01:09:59,323 --> 01:10:04,683
Ave, ave, ave Maria

554
01:10:04,723 --> 01:10:10,403
[Announcer]   At the end       
        of the line of bishops,      
            walked the Pope.

555
01:10:11,563 --> 01:10:18,083
[crowd cheers]

556
01:10:18,123 --> 01:10:20,163
and the next was         
         a picture of the Pope,

557
01:10:20,203 --> 01:10:22,803
which had been          
          on her bedroom wall.

558
01:10:22,843 --> 01:10:25,123
[Pope John Paul II]        
        Young people of Ireland,

559
01:10:26,403 --> 01:10:27,723
I love you.

560
01:10:29,563 --> 01:10:31,963
[crowd cheers]

561
01:10:32,003 --> 01:10:36,683
[Sinéad]   He didn't         
            fucking love me.

562
01:10:37,963 --> 01:10:46,763
You know, it was such a lie.

563
01:10:46,803 --> 01:10:48,843
And I had a right         
           to fight that evil

564
01:10:48,883 --> 01:10:52,723
because I loved the church.

565
01:10:52,763 --> 01:10:55,843
and I've got fuck all to lose

566
01:10:55,883 --> 01:10:57,443
that hasn't been done already.

567
01:11:10,323 --> 01:11:14,123
[Elaine]   I had booked her     
        on   Saturday Night Live.

568
01:11:14,163 --> 01:11:20,923
which was,            
        "Am I Not Your Girl."

569
01:11:20,963 --> 01:11:25,923
and this would really help it.

570
01:11:25,963 --> 01:11:28,603
[crowd applauds]

571
01:11:35,403 --> 01:12:01,043
Until the philosophy

572
01:12:04,043 --> 01:12:06,003
It's a speech that        
       the Emperor Haile Selassie

573
01:12:06,043 --> 01:12:08,723
had made at the United Nations,   
          and then Bob Marley

574
01:12:08,763 --> 01:12:20,843
turned it into a song.

575
01:12:20,883 --> 01:12:22,803
Than the colour of his eyes

576
01:12:22,843 --> 01:12:42,123
I've got to say war...

577
01:12:42,163 --> 01:12:53,963
And rumours of war

578
01:12:54,003 --> 01:13:01,483
Children, children

579
01:13:01,523 --> 01:13:08,163
We find it necessary

580
01:13:08,203 --> 01:13:21,843
We have confidence

581
01:13:25,123 --> 01:13:26,723
Fight the real enemy.

582
01:13:33,723 --> 01:13:39,963
[Elaine]              
        Nobody knows what to do.

583
01:13:40,003 --> 01:13:47,243
She blows a candle out,      
          she goes off stage,

584
01:13:47,283 --> 01:13:50,323
And I had gone into        
      the dressing room after her,

585
01:13:50,363 --> 01:13:53,323
and I said, "You know,      
     I can't get you out of this."

586
01:13:53,363 --> 01:13:55,763
And she said, "You know what?   
         I don't want you to."

587
01:13:58,563 --> 01:14:01,723
[host]   What effect do you think

588
01:14:02,923 --> 01:14:13,243
I don't know.

589
01:14:13,283 --> 01:14:25,723
Do you think what you have done

590
01:14:27,163 --> 01:14:32,923
Well, I can't really say.     
            I don't know.

591
01:14:32,963 --> 01:14:41,723
which you said don't seem     
       to be negative, right?

592
01:14:41,763 --> 01:15:05,483
[narrator]   Sinéad O'Connor     
     is no stranger to controversy.

593
01:15:05,523 --> 01:15:07,483
[reporter 2]   The network says   
           O'Connor's tirade         
         caught them off guard.

594
01:15:07,523 --> 01:15:12,643
NBC logged a thousand       
           complaint calls...

595
01:15:12,683 --> 01:15:15,003
certainly unauthorized by NBC,

596
01:15:15,043 --> 01:15:17,923
and NBC was offended       
            by what she did.

597
01:15:17,963 --> 01:15:26,243
[reporter]   The Catholic league   
     for religious and civil rights

598
01:15:26,283 --> 01:15:40,843
During the lunch hour,      
       they passed out leaflets,

599
01:15:40,883 --> 01:15:42,923
Actually, we were just      
       going to send them to her.

600
01:15:42,963 --> 01:15:45,243
Someone said,           
      don't send the tapes new.

601
01:15:45,283 --> 01:15:54,203
Break them up,           
   'cause she'll sell them again.

602
01:15:56,243 --> 01:16:01,763
[audience applauds]

603
01:16:01,803 --> 01:16:04,283
Sinéad O'Connor... [gags],     
         you know and so on.

604
01:16:04,323 --> 01:16:13,403
Or you just don't like that she 
   tore up a picture of the Pope.

605
01:16:13,443 --> 01:16:15,003
But I'll tell you one thing,    
         she was very lucky

606
01:16:15,043 --> 01:16:24,683
it wasn't my show.

607
01:16:24,723 --> 01:16:26,483
Sinéad O'Conner, who's big theme 
          is child abuse...

608
01:16:26,523 --> 01:16:30,323
-All right?            
   -It all comes from child abuse.

609
01:16:35,043 --> 01:16:40,643
[John]               
      I got a little bit worried,

610
01:16:40,683 --> 01:16:48,083
It was a terrible time for us.

611
01:16:48,123 --> 01:16:51,443
[Claire]   I had fan letters     
     with death threats to myself,

612
01:16:51,483 --> 01:16:57,803
death threats to Sinéad,

613
01:16:57,843 --> 01:17:04,003
or to me, or any of our team.

614
01:17:04,043 --> 01:17:15,843
And we were all applauding    
      and cheering and were like,

615
01:17:15,883 --> 01:17:20,083
"Oh, no, Sinéad O'Connor     
              is an icon.            
       She's ahead of her time."

616
01:17:20,123 --> 01:17:25,083
I think I probably        
       was joining in, "Oh, God,     
         what's she doing now?"

617
01:17:26,403 --> 01:17:38,523
Fight the real enemy.

618
01:17:38,563 --> 01:17:42,843
and tear up a photo        
          of Uncle Fester.

619
01:17:50,243 --> 01:18:04,683
[reporter]   Do you enjoy      
            shocking people?

620
01:18:04,723 --> 01:18:06,363
Some other time,          
     I'll talk to you about it.

621
01:18:06,403 --> 01:18:09,323
[reporter] But obviously      
     you don't have any regrets.

622
01:18:11,403 --> 01:18:21,083
[Kris Kristofferson]        
           I'm real proud...

623
01:18:21,123 --> 01:18:26,083
and integrity.

624
01:18:26,123 --> 01:18:28,683
[crowd cheers]

625
01:18:47,123 --> 01:18:48,203
Thank you.

626
01:18:52,563 --> 01:18:56,683
[Sinéad]   I'm on stage       
            and the audience         
           start making this

627
01:18:56,723 --> 01:18:58,243
and half of them are cheering.

628
01:18:58,283 --> 01:19:00,323
And it's the fucking       
             weirdest noise

629
01:19:00,363 --> 01:19:04,683
I've ever heard in my life.    
     And it makes me want to puke.

630
01:19:06,803 --> 01:19:09,403
[crowd cheering]

631
01:19:18,083 --> 01:19:31,363
[Sinéad]   My song that I was    
            supposed to sing

632
01:19:33,803 --> 01:19:43,443
"Are you going to stand by me"

633
01:19:43,483 --> 01:19:46,163
[crowd cheering]

634
01:19:49,003 --> 01:19:51,603
Okay, turn this up.

635
01:19:51,643 --> 01:19:57,403
Until the philosophy

636
01:19:57,443 --> 01:20:01,643
And another inferior

637
01:20:01,683 --> 01:20:10,203
Is finally

638
01:20:10,243 --> 01:20:29,723
Everywhere is war

639
01:20:29,763 --> 01:20:34,243
Than the colour of his eyes

640
01:20:34,283 --> 01:20:38,043
Until, the basic        
             Human rights

641
01:20:38,083 --> 01:20:40,883
Are equally           
          Guaranteed to all

642
01:20:40,923 --> 01:20:43,323
Without regard to race

643
01:20:43,363 --> 01:20:45,563
I say war

644
01:20:45,603 --> 01:20:52,843
And until

645
01:20:52,883 --> 01:21:03,803
Child abuse, yeah

646
01:21:03,843 --> 01:21:09,723
Utterly destroyed

647
01:21:17,883 --> 01:21:20,803
[Kathleen]   Everything kind of   
      coalesced into that moment.

648
01:21:20,843 --> 01:21:22,443
Someone who grew up        
             in a household

649
01:21:22,483 --> 01:21:26,643
of abuse and rejection,

650
01:21:26,683 --> 01:21:36,563
by what probably felt like    
        the whole entire world,

651
01:21:38,203 --> 01:21:39,883
[John]   People that would boo    
            Sinéad O'Connor,

652
01:21:39,923 --> 01:21:53,963
what were they doing       
        at a Bob Dylan concert?

653
01:21:59,163 --> 01:22:02,123
[Sinéad]   "My name         
          is Sinéad O'Connor,

654
01:22:03,363 --> 01:22:04,843
I am deserving,

655
01:22:04,883 --> 01:22:15,443
I deserve to be          
         treated with respect,

656
01:22:15,483 --> 01:22:17,123
I am and have always been     
        carrying a lot of grief,

657
01:22:17,163 --> 01:22:25,123
from my lost childhood,

658
01:22:25,163 --> 01:22:34,683
To get to the joy,

659
01:22:34,723 --> 01:22:44,723
but I know that if you      
          could really listen,

660
01:22:44,763 --> 01:22:47,003
there's a mirror into       
       which we are not looking.

661
01:22:51,123 --> 01:23:00,403
There's no way           
     I'm going to shut my mouth,

662
01:23:00,443 --> 01:23:02,483
just because they don't      
       want to hear about it.

663
01:23:05,483 --> 01:23:10,083
[Peaches]   We all have,       
         mental health issues,

664
01:23:10,123 --> 01:23:15,963
and it's very important      
       for us to recognize that,

665
01:23:17,843 --> 01:23:20,083
[Sinéad]   I was always being    
         crazied by the media,

666
01:23:20,123 --> 01:23:34,523
made out to be crazy.

667
01:23:36,563 --> 01:23:39,043
[Skin]               
     Sinéad was put into isolation.

668
01:23:39,083 --> 01:23:41,003
She, was still          
          making great music,

669
01:23:41,043 --> 01:23:45,443
still making great records,

670
01:23:45,483 --> 01:23:48,243
In those days, if the press    
       weren't talking about you,

671
01:23:48,283 --> 01:23:53,043
if you weren't on the radio,   
     if you weren't on TV screens,

672
01:23:53,083 --> 01:23:56,083
Which is what           
         happened with Sinéad,

673
01:23:59,003 --> 01:24:03,163
[Sinéad]   I have about       
           a ten-year period

674
01:24:03,203 --> 01:24:04,163
because it suddenly        
         became a free for all

675
01:24:04,203 --> 01:24:09,723
for everybody around me,

676
01:24:12,483 --> 01:24:15,923
They didn't like what       
        they saw on the mirror,

677
01:24:15,963 --> 01:24:17,723
but when I was younger,      
            I was just hurt.

678
01:24:25,523 --> 01:24:31,323
[Dr. Sinéad Kennedy]   The      
     willingness to tell her story,

679
01:24:31,363 --> 01:24:38,003
to share them, with Ireland    
          and with the world,

680
01:24:42,563 --> 01:24:47,603
[Enda Kenny]   On behalf       
             of this state,

681
01:24:47,643 --> 01:25:01,243
deeply regret,          
      and apologize unreservedly,

682
01:25:03,283 --> 01:25:06,283
Today, we live in         
       a very different country,

683
01:25:06,323 --> 01:25:08,283
with a very different       
             consciousness,

684
01:25:08,323 --> 01:25:12,083
and a very different awareness.

685
01:25:14,163 --> 01:25:29,723
An Ireland where we have     
            more compassion,

686
01:25:34,763 --> 01:25:41,243
In Ireland, it's being       
     called a quiet revolution,

687
01:25:41,283 --> 01:25:46,403
to repeal a constitutional     
          ban on abortion.

688
01:25:46,443 --> 01:25:50,123
[women chanting]

689
01:25:52,443 --> 01:26:01,043
[woman]   Yeah,           
      I'm proud to be Irish today

690
01:26:04,203 --> 01:26:06,003
[Roisin]   Wherever there's     
          that righteous anger

691
01:26:06,043 --> 01:26:08,163
of a woman now,          
      who is making a difference,

692
01:26:08,203 --> 01:26:10,203
who's changing things,

693
01:26:10,243 --> 01:26:18,083
who's standing up         
         and being courageous.

694
01:26:22,323 --> 01:26:25,483
We are seeing the rights     
           that people fought        
         for being pulled back,

695
01:26:25,523 --> 01:26:32,963
being diminished,

696
01:26:35,043 --> 01:26:39,443
We need to keep showing      
          how effective it is,

697
01:26:39,483 --> 01:26:42,683
[crowd chanting]

698
01:26:46,283 --> 01:26:50,203
Women's bodies are under attack!

699
01:26:58,603 --> 01:27:04,523
[Chuck D]   There's a lot      
 of artists that came afterward,

700
01:27:06,603 --> 01:27:09,603
She broke the ice         
           for a whole decade

701
01:27:09,643 --> 01:27:11,443
or two decades          
         of artists after her.

702
01:27:12,483 --> 01:27:15,643
[upbeat music]

703
01:27:29,723 --> 01:27:32,803
[reporter]   A government      
           inquiry last year

704
01:27:32,843 --> 01:27:34,643
put their church's reputation

705
01:27:34,683 --> 01:27:40,523
before the interests       
            of their flock,

706
01:27:40,563 --> 01:27:42,803
But the scandals         
         go far beyond Ireland,

707
01:27:42,843 --> 01:27:44,843
and touch the Vatican directly.

708
01:27:44,883 --> 01:27:47,483
Last week, it was alleged     
          that Pope Benedict,

709
01:27:47,523 --> 01:27:49,323
then known as           
          Cardinal Ratzinger,

710
01:27:49,363 --> 01:27:54,683
had prevented the church trial,

711
01:27:54,723 --> 01:27:58,123
The church in Ireland,       
 must acknowledge before the Lord

712
01:27:58,163 --> 01:28:01,603
and others,            
     the serious sins committed

713
01:28:01,643 --> 01:28:03,883
against defenceless children.

714
01:28:09,803 --> 01:28:13,243
[Kathleen]             
     Sinéad O'Connor as an artist,   
          forged her own path

715
01:28:13,283 --> 01:28:20,563
in a world that just       
         was not ready for her.

716
01:28:20,603 --> 01:28:26,363
showed up, and just rocked    
 the shit out of the horse cart.

717
01:28:26,403 --> 01:28:28,363
I don't want to see        
            her as a martyr,

718
01:28:28,403 --> 01:28:37,363
because she's           
          a three-dimensional        
              human being.

719
01:28:39,243 --> 01:28:50,403
[calm music]

720
01:28:50,443 --> 01:28:54,123
that that really,         
     really killed me and hurt me.

721
01:28:54,163 --> 01:29:02,763
You know?

722
01:29:02,803 --> 01:29:13,003
it didn't suit me         
           being a pop star.

723
01:29:13,043 --> 01:29:16,763
it was the proudest thing     
      I've ever done as an artist.

724
01:29:16,803 --> 01:29:20,523
They broke my heart        
          and they killed me,        
           but I didn't die.

725
01:29:22,603 --> 01:29:25,723
They tried to bury me,

726
01:29:28,883 --> 01:29:33,723
Thank you for hearing me

727
01:29:35,723 --> 01:29:40,643
Thank you for hearing me

728
01:29:42,683 --> 01:29:47,563
Thank you for hearing me

729
01:29:49,523 --> 01:29:54,883
Thank you for hearing me

730
01:30:00,643 --> 01:30:06,643
Thank you for loving me

731
01:30:06,683 --> 01:30:11,563
Thank you for loving me

732
01:30:12,923 --> 01:30:18,523
Thank you for loving me

733
01:30:18,563 --> 01:30:23,763
Thank you for loving me

734
01:30:28,123 --> 01:30:39,723
Which means forsaking me

735
01:30:39,763 --> 01:30:51,363
Thank you for seeing me

736
01:30:55,723 --> 01:31:01,443
And for not leaving me

737
01:31:01,483 --> 01:31:06,563
And for not leaving me

738
01:31:07,963 --> 01:31:19,163
And for not leaving me

739
01:31:23,283 --> 01:31:29,123
Thank you            
         For staying with me

740
01:31:29,163 --> 01:31:35,563
Thank you            
         For staying with me

741
01:31:35,603 --> 01:31:40,923
Thank you            
         For staying with me

742
01:31:40,963 --> 01:31:46,683
Thank you            
         For staying with me

743
01:31:50,723 --> 01:32:13,723
Thanks for not hurting me

744
01:32:18,283 --> 01:32:24,203
You are gentle with me

745
01:32:24,243 --> 01:32:29,083
You are gentle with me

746
01:32:30,563 --> 01:32:42,083
You are gentle with me

747
01:32:45,803 --> 01:32:56,763
Thanks for silence with me

748
01:32:58,163 --> 01:33:09,363
Thanks for silence with me

749
01:33:13,923 --> 01:33:32,283
Thank you for holding me

750
01:33:32,323 --> 01:33:37,163
Thank you for holding me

751
01:33:41,683 --> 01:33:53,123
Thank you for helping me

752
01:33:53,163 --> 01:33:58,923
Thank you for helping me

753
01:33:58,963 --> 01:34:06,323
Thank you

754
01:34:09,123 --> 01:34:21,003
Thank you            
        For breaking my heart

755
01:34:21,043 --> 01:34:24,403
Now I've a strong

756
01:34:24,443 --> 01:34:27,443
Strong heart

757
01:34:27,483 --> 01:34:30,603
Thank you

758
01:34:30,643 --> 01:34:36,483
For breaking my heart

759
01:34:44,363 --> 01:34:47,323
[vocalizing]