Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart took place in NME‘s ‘Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Brain Cells?’ where he recalled his days with Sinéad O’Connor and how paranoia had become a type of trauma response.
During the interview, the musician was asked if he could name his three back singers during his live performance of ‘Happy To Be Here’ on Channel 4 in 1998. He recalled the performance with Kylie Minogue, O’Connor, and Natalie Imbruglia and told NME about their memories with O’Connor:
“I’ve got so many great films of Sinéad howling and crying with laughter and joking and larking around. She had a brilliant sense of humor, and there was that side of her.”
Although she seemed like a happy person, as described by Stewart, O’Connor dealt with childhood trauma. The musician recalled her challenging moments while stressing that she’d find a way to overcome negative thoughts:
“There was another side where she’d had such terrible trauma when she was a kid, and she would sometimes find it very hard to get rid of it and would get very paranoid. That only happened twice with me – when she was worried about someone outside or something like that. But normally, we’d just fall about laughing. She came on holiday with me, stayed in my house, and we had great fun.”
The duo worked together on different projects, as well as for his photographing her numerous times and producing her fifth studio album, ‘Faith and Courage.’
After her passing away, Stewart paid his tributes to the singer, and his bandmate Annie Lennox paid her tributes with a poem she wrote for O’Connor.
Below, you can see the mentioned performance.
