Britney Spears has tapped five-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams to narrate her upcoming memoir The Woman in Me.
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Sinéad O’Connor premiered in the finale of the BBC TV show The Woman In The Wall this weekend.The show depicts the Magdalene Laundries of Ireland, institutions run by Roman Catholic orders between the 18th century and the 1990s which have been likened to labour camps for young mothers.Before her death at the age of 56 this summer, O’Connor gave the BBC the rights to an unreleased song called ‘The Magdalene Song’ for use in the series.On the track, which premiered at the climax of Sunday night’s (September 24) final episode of the show, O’Connor sings of the pain of losing a child and calls on her own experience of being in a similar institution from the age of 15.Discussing the track, her producer David Holmes told The Guardian: “The first half of the track is completely heartbreaking, and the second half is pure defiance.“I stripped the song away to just Sinéad’s voice and then let the full power come in for the second half. It’s incredible how the meaning of the song came together with this story It was just meant to be.
There’s a certain magic when you bring music to an emotive story.”He added: “Sinéad sanctioned the track for use before they had even started shooting, and when the producers heard it they were amazed to have something so strong. We all felt the only place this can go is at the end.”You can hear the song on the final episode of The Woman In The Wall on BBC iPlayer here.Of the process of the song ending up in the series, Holmes added: “In the lyrics Sinéad was trying to say, I think, that though she’d been through great turmoil, it would not stop her being who she wanted to be.“She never really spoke about the meaning of her songs.
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U2 honoured the late Sinead O’Connor at their Las Vegas Sphere show last weekend by performing a snippet of her song ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ during ‘With Or Without You’.The Irish rockers kicked off their residency at the brand new $2 billion MSG Sphere venue at the Venetian Resort last Friday (September 29), which saw them christen the 18,000 seated structure that has 160,000 speakers and a dome-shaped wraparound LED screen.During Saturday night’s (September 30) show, the band performed their 1987 classic ‘With Or Without You’ in which frontman Bono concluded the song with the lyrics, “Nothing compares to you“, from O’Connor’s 1990 release of the same name.Watch footage of the performance below.Irish music legend O’Connor died at the age of 56 in July.
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Sinéad O’Connor has a new song out??
The Woman in the Wall, a BBC program about abuse in the Catholic churches of Ireland, will close out with unreleased Sinéad O'Connor, The Guardian reports. "The Magdalene Song" was given to the showrunners by the late singer.
told The Guardian. “I stripped the song away to just Sinéad’s voice and then let the full power come in for the second half.”Holmes continued: “It’s incredible how the meaning of the song came together with this story It was just meant to be.
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