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The Cranberries: On Record

The Cranberries: On Record

Paperback

Series: On Record

MusiciansPop/RockMusic Reference

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ISBN13: 9798170419807
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Four teenagers from working-class Limerick families. A singer who joined at eighteen with a Yamaha keyboard and no rock and roll experience whatsoever. And a voice that, within eighteen months, would carry an unlikely quartet from a garage in Moyross to a major-label contract, a Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, and more than forty million records sold worldwide.

The Cranberries: On Record traces the band's full thirty-year arc, from the fragile, Smiths-indebted melancholy of Linger through the raw political fury of Zombie the commercial peak of No Need to Argue, a six-year hiatus, a hard-won reunion, and the sudden death of Dolores O'Riordan in 2018 that left her three bandmates to finish one final album around the voice she had left behind.

Drawing on decades of interviews, chart data, and music-press reporting, music journalist Karen McConnell builds a clear-eyed, thoroughly sourced account of the studio decisions, business choices, and personal costs behind one of Ireland's best-selling exports, without ever losing sight of the songs themselves.

Complete with a curated Essential Listening guide, full studio discography, and a Spotify companion playlist, this is a book for anyone who has ever sung along to Zombie or any other hit by The Cranberries without knowing exactly where it came from.

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