Sinead O’Connor’s last texts ‘laden with despair and desperation’, Bob Geldof says in heartbreaking tribute

The Independent

This is the moment Bob Geldof paid a special tribute to his friend Sinead O’Connor as he revealed some of the last texts the late singer sent him.  Geldof said O’Connor, who died at her home in London on 26 July, was a “very good friend of mine”. He added: “We were talking up to a couple of weeks ago. Some of the texts were laden with despair and desperation and some were ecstatically happy, and she was like that.”  The special tribute was paid at the Cavan Calling festival in Ireland with Geldof dedicating two songs to his friend.

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00:00 And many, many times Sinead was full of a terrible loneliness and a terrible despair.

00:07 She was a very good friend of mine we were talking up to a couple of weeks ago and some of the

00:15 texts were laden with desperation and despair and some were ecstatically happy and she was like that.

00:22 We're going to do two songs we don't normally come back on after the big,

00:28 you know, end of gig song that makes you go away happy. We don't want you on a downer but I want

00:34 to do this song, well we all do, this song Dave 1 because we're remembering Gary who was Sinead's

00:42 neighbor and our friend for many years. This was his favorite song he played brilliant guitar on it

00:50 and it goes to what we're talking about by Sinead and then finally we want to do a song

00:57 that we rarely do now but it was her favorite rad song. She loved this band, she came to many,

01:05 many, many gigs as a girl. She tore up the picture of the Pope because she saw me

01:13 tearing up the picture of John Travolta on top of the pops.

01:16 It was a little more extreme than tearing the disco,

01:25 Tearing up the Vatican is a whole other thing, but more correct actually. I should have done it.

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