For as heartbreaking as it was to watch Sinead O'Connor's confessional Facebook video last August, its rawness and honesty nevertheless served as a reminder of the reasons people fell in love with her when her debut album, The Lion and the Cobra, dropped 30 years ago (Nov. 4, 1987).
At the time, O'Connor was a 20-year-old woman whose only proper credit was "Heroine," a song she co-wrote with U2 guitarist The Edge for his soundtrack to the 1986 Anglo-French film Captive. Yet she burst onto the college radio and alternative music scene with a fiercely vibrant vocal range that split the difference between Kate Bush and Perry Farrell.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8031076/sinead-oconnor-the-lion-and-the-cobra-debut-album
At the time, O'Connor was a 20-year-old woman whose only proper credit was "Heroine," a song she co-wrote with U2 guitarist The Edge for his soundtrack to the 1986 Anglo-French film Captive. Yet she burst onto the college radio and alternative music scene with a fiercely vibrant vocal range that split the difference between Kate Bush and Perry Farrell.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8031076/sinead-oconnor-the-lion-and-the-cobra-debut-album
