Foo Fighters and Alanis Morissette paid tribute to the late Sinead O’Connor on Saturday, becoming a member of forces for a canopy of “Mandinka” through the Foos’ headlining efficiency at Japan’s Fuji Rock Pageant.
You’ll be able to watch the efficiency under.
“We’d wish to make tonight very particular for you as a result of it’s good to be again,” Dave Grohl informed the viewers beforehand. “So tonight, we’re gonna do one thing that we’ve by no means finished earlier than, with somebody that we love very a lot. We wish an previous pal to return up and sing with us tonight for a really particular motive. Girls and gents, would you please welcome, to sing a music with us: miss Alanis Morissette.”
Morissette — whose shared historical past with Foo Fighters spans a long time, as she toured with late Foos drummer Taylor Hawkins within the ’90s — then devoted the efficiency to “a lovely lady of excessive intelligence and deep empathy, method forward of her time, who’s now not with us. That is for her.”
“Mandinka” served because the second single off O’Connor’s 1987 debut album The Lion and the Cobra. The music peaked at No. 6 in her native Eire and reached No. 17 in the UK. It supplied a glimpse of the large success O’Connor would expertise together with her sophomore album, 1990’s I Do Not Need What I Have not Acquired, which topped charts all over the world together with its second single “Nothing Compares 2 U.”
O’Connor died this week on the age of 56. A number of artists have shared tributes to the singer, together with Tom Morello, Bryan Adams, Jason Isbell, Ice T, Melissa Etheridge and U2.
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