MACHINE HEAD‘s Robb Flynn and Jared MacEachern paid tribute to Sinéad O’Connor by performing her model of Prince‘s music “Nothing Compares 2 U” throughout their newest “Electrical Pleased Hour” on Friday, July 28.

In introducing the music, Flynn instructed the viewing viewers through Fb Reside and YouTube: “As a few of you realize, Sinéad O’Connor handed away. I am not gonna sit right here and say that I used to be the most important Sinéad O’Connor fan, though I did assume that she was fairly rad… However I gotta say I fucking completely adore this music. I listened to the unique model from Prince, and I positively assume it blows the unique Prince model away. So we’re gonna do the Sinéad O’Connor model of the Prince music which known as ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’.”

Cops discovered O’Connor unresponsive in a London residence on Wednesday, July 26 simply weeks after she had moved to town. Her dying will not be being handled as suspicious.

The Irish singer, who infamously grew to become a polarizing determine when she tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II throughout a 1992 look on “Saturday Evening Reside”, was 56.

O’Connor‘s breakthrough single got here in 1990 with the aforementioned “Nothing Compares 2 U”. In whole, she had launched 10 albums, most just lately 2014’s “I am Not Bossy, I am The Boss”.

Sinéad mirrored on her rise to fame within the documentary “Nothing Compares”, which got here out final 12 months. In it, she defined why she was compelled to tear up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on digital camera.

“I had come throughout an article about households who had been attempting to lodge complaints in opposition to the church for sexual abuse and had been being silenced,” she stated. “Mainly, every thing I had been raised to consider was a lie.”

O’Connor tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II after performing an a cappella model of “Warfare” by Bob Marley. She then instructed the viewers to “Combat the true enemy.”

Though Sinéad introduced her retirement from music and touring, writing in 2021 that she’d “gotten older” and was “drained”, she modified her thoughts inside days, saying, “I like my job. Making music that’s. I do not like the results of being a gifted (and outspoken girl) being that I’ve to wade via partitions of prejudice each day to make a dwelling.”