8 December 1966 – 26 July 2023
The artist and musician on his long friendship with an extraordinary vocalist whose courage helped so many raised in Catholic Ireland
I didn’t see her for a good while after that. Then, in 1993, I was working with the director Jim Sheridan on the soundtrack for his film about the Guildford Four, In the Name of the Father. Both myself and Bono had recorded versions of the song You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart for the film, but Jim thought they were both too dark.
He decided he wanted a woman to sing it and I suggested Sinéad.
