Sunday, July 15, 2018

The final days for Dolores O’Riordan: Cranberries Singer

“She was in a good space,” says label executive Dan Waite,
 after hearing from late singer before unexpected death

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Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan, 2013
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Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan, 2013
Dolores O’Riordan appeared to be in good spirits the second weekend in January. On the 12th, the Cranberries frontwoman and her longtime bandmate, guitarist Noel Hogan, spoke by phone about a March tour and starting their first studio album in six years. “She was great,” says Hogan. “We spoke about getting back to work.” Two days later, O’Riordan e-mailed him several fresh songs that would be considered for that next band album.
Sadly, those plans never came to be. On the morning of January 15th, O’Riordan was found dead in a London hotel room. She was 46. At press time, the results of an autopsy and toxicology report had not been announced, and police were treating the death as unexplained but not suspicious. (The coroner’s investigation has been adjourned until April 3 “as they await the results of further tests,” according to that office.) The news marked the shocking end for a singer whose steely, siren-like voice and lyrics about both the personal and the political made her one of the most potent stars of the alt-rock era. As U2 said in a group comment, “She had such strength of conviction, yet she could speak to the fragility in all of us.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dolores-oriordan-inside-cranberries-singers-final-days-125322/

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