Irish singer Dolores was born into a poor farming family in the city with the poetic name of Limerick and was the youngest of seven children. The owner of the most extraordinary voice of the 90s. studied music from an early age: she sang in the choir, played the piano, pipe and guitar. In the group The Cranberries (translated from English - “cranberry”) got in 1990. She impressed the new team not only with singing, but also with the lyrics of her songs.
Thus, the popular hit “Zombie” is dedicated to the protracted armed confrontation between England and Ireland. This song is an emotional reaction to what is happening. The song's lyrics were written by the lead singer of The Cranberries after she learned about the death of two boys in a 1993 terrorist attack. A bomb exploded, planted by militants of the Irish Republican Army. “It’s the same old theme since 1916” (“It’s the same old theme since 1916”), this line reminds us of the historical events that preceded the attack. Ireland's struggle for independence from Great Britain began in 1916 with the Easter Rising. With the word "Zombie" the singer calls all the terrorists and murderers who obey their ideas and try to achieve justice at the cost of the death of ordinary people. “What's in your head, zombie?” "What's on your mind, zombie?"
The song was released as a single in September 1994. It subsequently became a hit and topped the Billboard charts as "Most Played on Radio".
The Cranberries sang about the war and its victims more than once. So, the songs “Bosnia” and “War Child” are dedicated to the tragic events of the civil war in Yugoslavia:
And the song “I Just Shot John Lennon” tells about the murder of one of the leaders of The Beatles in 1980. “I just shot John Lennon” is the real answer of the killer to the question: “What did you do?”:
Dolores dedicated the popular ballad “Will you remember” to her husband, former Duran Duran tour manager Don Burton. The singer got married in 1994 and divorced in 2014. The couple has five children. The singer had a hard time breaking up, and this affected her mental health: Dolores was diagnosed with bipolar disorder (a mental disorder characterized by alternating manic and depressive states, mixed states, alternating euphoria and depression. - Ed.).
The singer, together with the main composer of the group, wrote another hit "Animal Instinct" while pregnant in 1997. The plot of the clip tells how the social service separates the mother from the children, but the woman kidnaps them and runs away. The image of the singer in this clip is absolutely different from the previous ones. From a short-haired tomboy, she turned into a gentle woman with long hair:
In 2003, Dolores left The Cranberries and started singing solo.
And in 2009, the group announced a reunion and managed to record two albums.
In 2017, The Cranberries announced the start of a world tour, but in May of the same year, the group canceled the remaining concerts due to O'Riordan's health condition.
It was reported that the singer has back problems. On December 20, the vocalist wrote on the group's official social media pages that she was fine. And the last time the vocalist got in touch with fans on her Twitter page on January 3rd.
Irish singer Dolores O "Riordan died suddenly in London. She was only 46 years old. The vocalist of The Cranberries arrived in the British capital to record a new composition. A representative of the musical group called the soloist's departure from life sudden, but said that he could not yet tell about the details happened.
"Family members are devastated by the news and have asked for privacy during this difficult time," the group said in a statement.
The London police said that the call from the Hilton Hotel on Park Lane near Hyde Park came to them at 09:05 am (12:05 Moscow time) on Monday, January 15. At the moment, Dolores O "Riordan is considered dead under unclear circumstances.
A Hilton spokesperson confirmed that the death of the Irish singer occurred at the hotel. According to her, the hotel on Park Lane is fully cooperating with the police in clarifying all the circumstances of the incident.
One of the first to express his condolences to the family and relatives of the deceased soloist of The Cranberries was the President of Ireland and countryman O "Riordan Michael Higgins. According to him, her work had a huge impact on rock and pop music both in Ireland and around the world.
“With great sadness, I learned about the death of Dolores O'Riordan, a musician, singer and author ... For her family and all those who follow and worry about Irish music, Irish musicians and performers, her death will be a great loss,” said Higgins.
Condolences in connection with the death of O "Riordan were also expressed by her colleagues in the music scene. Lead guitarist and vocalist of the British band The Kinks Dave Davis said that they recently talked with the singer and discussed plans for joint work.
“I’m truly shocked that Dolores O’Riordan left so suddenly. We talked with her a couple of weeks before Christmas. She seemed happy and healthy. We even talked about the possible writing of several songs together. Incredible. God bless her,” wrote Davis.
— Dave Davies (@davedavieskinks) January 15, 2018
Irish performer Andrew Hozier-Byrne, acting under the pseudonym Hozier, recalled his first impression of the voice of Dolores O'Riordan.
“The first time I heard the voice of Dolores O'Riordan was unforgettable. He questioned how a voice can sound in the context of rock. I have never heard anyone use their vocal instrument like that. Shocked and saddened by the news of her death, thoughts - with her family, ”- wrote the musician.
"My first kissing dance was to The Cranberries"
According to music producer and composer Maxim Fadeev, he is upset that good musicians continue to leave the world. In a conversation with RT, he recalled that already in the nineties, when many were just starting in Russia, The Cranberries already had several good songs on their account.
“The Cranberries was when we were just getting started. The band started in the 90s and they had a couple of really cool tracks. Very, very sorry, - said Fadeev. - Musicians leave, cool guys leave, but who comes? .. I would like to see. It’s just a pity for a great musician.”
Russian singer Pyotr Nalich called the soloist of the Irish group a wonderful musician. Nalich admitted to RT that at the party on the day he graduated from a music school, the songs of The Cranberries were played.
“You won’t believe it, I remember how there was a party at the end of the music school. We were 14 years old, and they even poured us some wine (maybe, maybe not), but then we had a dance, and I remember that my first kiss dance was to The Cranberries, Nalich said. “Bless her memory, she was a wonderful musician.”
Pelageya also expressed her condolences in connection with the untimely departure of a young and very talented singer.
“It felt some kind of inner breath of Ireland”
The vocals of the soloist of The Cranberries were outstanding and struck with originality, and the compositions performed by her sounded like a powerful attack, music critic Alexander Belyaev told RIA Novosti.
“Dolores O'Riordan is an outstanding person. Of course, her voice was amazing - a very young, fragile creature with this peculiar voice, with bitterness and oil in the vocal cords,” Belyaev said.
“Such a powerful attack, something folk, real, earthy, grown in those fields. The first album was very much appreciated even by musical snobs. Then they went uphill, released a second album with the song Zombie - and they became such a folk group, ”said the agency’s interlocutor.
According to him, The Cranberries are a real phenomenon of the nineties. The critic explained that its members revolutionized the music of the time with their traditional sound.
“I remember when their album Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We came out, it made a very big impression, it’s still not clear why. These are such simple songs, simple harmonies, no bells and whistles, but everything was played in some it was in its own way, completely original. It felt some kind of inner breath of Ireland. They had an Irishness that was completely elusive, but clearly felt, "added Belyaev.
Dolores O "Riordan was born in September 1971 in the Irish village of Ballybriken in County Limerick. She was the youngest of seven children in a poor farming family. As a child, Dolores sang in the church choir, and then learned to play the piano and pipe. At 17, she took up the guitar.
The story of Dolores getting into The Cranberries, as often happens, is connected with her partial breakup. The band was formed in Limerick in 1989 by brothers Mike (bass) and Noel (solo) Hogan, who recruited drummer Fergal Lawler and vocalist Niall Quinn. The group was then called The Cranberry Saw Us. A year later, Quinn left the band, and the musicians posted an ad looking for a new vocalist. Dolores O "Riordan responded to him by sending several demos.
She was accepted into a group that changed its name to The Cranberries. Dolores very quickly became the face of the group thanks to her original and recognizable voice - a lively, rhythmic mezzo-soprano.
After the appearance of the singles Dreams and Linger, in March 1993, The Cranberries' first studio album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We, was released? However, real fame came to the Irish group and the talented performer a year and a half later.
In October 1994, The Cranberries released their second studio album, No Need to Argue, with Zombie as the title track. This is a protest song with which the musicians opposed the terrorist activities of the militants of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). It became a hymn to the return of the Irish people to a peaceful life.
The creation of this composition was influenced by two explosions that occurred in February and March 1993 in the British Warrington. As a result of the terrorist attacks organized by militants of the IRA, 56 people were injured and two boys, Jonathan Ball and Tim Perry, were killed.
After the release of their second album, which became platinum in many countries of the world, The Cranberries released three more records, after which in 2003 the band members, without announcing the breakup, took up solo projects. Dolores O'Riordan has released two solo albums.
In April 2011, The Cranberries reunited and began recording their sixth studio album, and at the end of April 2017, the seventh album, Something Else, was released. Nevertheless, the tour in support of her had to be canceled due to severe back pain, which began with the vocalist.
Dolores O "Riordan 20 years (1994-2014) was married to the former Duran Duran tour manager Don Burton. She left three children: 20-year-old son Taylor Baxter and two daughters - 16-year-old Molly Lee and 12- Summer Dakota Rain.
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Irish rock band The Cranberries formed in 1989 in Limerick and was then called The Cranberry Saw Us. The first line-up included guitarist Noel Hogan, his brother bass guitarist Mike Hogan, drummer Fergal Lawler and vocalist Niall Quinn. A year later, the place at the microphone was vacated, and the musicians decided to try their luck in search of a vocalist. Singer and talented composer Dolores O'Riordan responded to an ad placed in a local newspaper. As a test, she was asked to write lyrics and vocals for pre-existing recordings. The group was satisfied with the result, and the line-up was completed. At the same time, the name was shortened to The Cranberries, and the musicians themselves recorded a demo tape, which was sent to British record companies. The cassette attracted the attention of the public and the press, and the group received several offers at once - as a result, the choice fell on Island Records.
In 1991, The Cranberries went into the studio with manager Piers Gilmour, who produced their demo tape, to record their debut EP, U ncertain". However, due to Gilmour's strange views on music, the release turned out to be nondescript, and relations between him and the musicians deteriorated. When in January 1992 it came to recording their debut album, the team almost broke up altogether - Gilmour was fired, the material was rejected, and the musicians practically decided to give up music. It took a lot of effort for them to pull themselves together and start all over again. In March, The Cranberries, along with new producer Stephen Street, who worked with The Smiths, tried to record the first album again. The material was written almost entirely by O'Riordan. In parallel, the group toured the UK quite successfully and recorded live for various radio broadcasts.
First single "Dreams" was released in September 1992, in February 1993 - the second single "Linger", and a month later the album itself "Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?" The audience greeted these releases coolly, "Linger" only reached 74th place in the charts. However, The Cranberries were able to tour as an opening act for Suede. The group was suddenly noticed by representatives of the MTV channel, which radically changed the situation. The active rotation of video clips brought the musicians popularity. After the tour, The Cranberries returned to their homeland in Ireland as stars. In February 1994, "Linger" was re-released and reached the 14th place, the single "Dreams" re-released in May did not rise high (27th place), but strengthened the group's position. The debut album re-entered the British hit parade and reached the 1st line. The group was able to go on tour in North America and Europe.
Inspired by the success, the musicians began to prepare new material, which resulted in the release in October 1994 album "No Need To Argue" which brought the group international success and popularity. Compared to the debut, the songs were even deeper and tougher. The disc reached number 6 on the US Billboard 200 and number 2 on the UK charts, but topped the charts in some European countries. The success was facilitated by the very emotional single "Zombie", released in September. The song was dedicated to two girls who died in March 1994 as a result of terrorist attacks organized by Irish separatists in the British city of Warrington. The single became the undisputed "number one" in the charts around the world - needless to say, how old and new fans of The Cranberries were waiting for the album. The result is 3x platinum in the UK, 5x platinum in Canada, 7x platinum in the US, and over 5 million discs sold in Europe. The total to date is 17 million copies of the album sold.
The Cranberries' next disc "To The Faithful Departed" was released at the end of April 1996. Despite the even heavier weight and laudatory reviews, the disc could not repeat the success of its multi-platinum predecessor - it managed to get only two "platinum" in the US and "gold" in the UK. As a result, sales amounted to 6 million copies. relative success used the single "Salvation". In the fall of that year, The Cranberries canceled tours of Europe and Australia. Rumors spread that the main songwriter of the group, O'Riordan, decided to pursue a solo career, however, this was not the case. The musicians took a break and started working on new material.
The Cranberries' fourth studio album, Bury the Hatchet, was released in April 1999, and sales again showed that the band's popularity was in decline. The first single was the song "Promises", released in February. Positions in the charts and sales figures were modest - "gold" in the US, Austria, Germany, Canada, "platinum" in Spain and France. Total sales in just three years exceeded one million copies. Nevertheless, after the release of the album The Cranberries plucked up their courage and embarked on a big world tour, which became the most successful of their career. The group also appeared in the then popular TV series Charmed. In the summer of 2000, after the end of the tour, a 2-disc edition of "Bury The Hatchet" was released with b-sides and live recordings.
In October 2001, the band's fifth album, Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, went on sale. The disc, released on the new label of the MCA group, was not very popular and could not even repeat the sales figures of its predecessor. The situation was not saved by singles that did not even hit the British charts. In 2002, a collection of the best things "Stars - The Best of 1992-2002" was released, as well as a DVD of the same name with video clips. At the same time, the first albums of the group were re-released. After a series of small tours, The Cranberries returned to the studio in February 2003 with Stephen Street again - the new disc was planned to be released in the spring of 2004. In the summer, the musicians toured independently and opening act for the Rolling Stones, and in September they unexpectedly announced the breakup of the group. Further, each participant, with varying degrees of success, took up a solo career. In 2008, Island Records released The Cranberries' best-of double compilation "Gold".
In early 2009, O'Riordan became an honorary member of the Philosophical Society of the University of Dublin, the capital of Ireland. On this occasion, The Cranberries climbed in together, although they officially stated that they would not be for long. However, in the fall, the musicians reunited for a tour of the United States and Europe, where they played both their own classics and new tracks, as well as O'Riordan's solo work. Actually, the reunion of the group was largely dedicated to the release of the second solo album of the vocalist "No Baggage". Anyway, the band continued to perform during 2009-2010, and in the spring of 2011 they went into the studio with their permanent producer Stephen Street to record their new and first studio album in 10 years, called "Roses". It contains material that was in the works when The Cranberries announced they were disbanding in 2003. The disc was released in February 2012.
The origins of the famous Irish band The Cranberries lie in the Irish town of Limerick (Limerick) - it was there that two brothers Noel (Noel Anthony Hogan, 12/25/1971) and Mike Hogan (Michael Gerard Hogan, 04/29/1973), while still schoolchildren, decided to put together a group. Noel played guitar, and Mike played bass - Feargal Lawler (Feargal Patrick Lawler, 03/04/1971) became the drummer in their group, and their friend and part-time drummer of another local band The Hitchers named Niall Quinn (1973) became the vocalist. ), a rather extravagant young man who wrote songs with titles like "My Grandmother Drowned in the Fountain of Lourdes".
Formed in 1989, the group was originally called The Cranberry Saw Us ("Cranberry saw us" in literal translation and a pun - in English this phrase sounds very similar to how "cranberry sauce" is pronounced). They recorded a demo tape "Anything ", which included 4 tracks, but the work stopped there. Quinn did not stay in the group for a long time, he could not be torn into 2 bands at once - to be the vocalist of The Cranberry Saw Us and the drummer in The Hitchers, so he chose the latter. But before leaving, he recommended Dolores O'Riordan (Dolores Mary Eileen O) `Riordan, 09/06/1971), girlfriend of the then-girlfriend Quinn-Catherine.
It was May 1990 outside. Dolores came to the guys to audition in a bright pink suit and with a synthesizer. She sang to the guys one of the songs of her favorite singer Sinead O`Connor from the album "Lion And The Cobra" and shocked everyone with her voice. The musicians handed her a demo of the song they were working on at the time, and Dolores returned the next day with the lyrics to the song "Linger" completely ready. So the Cranberries were born in the very form in which she fell in love with millions of listeners .
Having shortened their name at the suggestion of Dolores, first to The Cranberry`s, and then to The Cranberies, which is familiar to this day around the world, the guys recorded several songs for their demo-single "Nothing Left At All" and sent it to Irish music stores. When all printed 300 copies were sold in a matter of days, the group recorded the songs on a new one and began to send out demo tapes to various labels. The cassette got the full attention of the British music press, and soon the labels themselves ran to The Cranberries with offers one more beautiful than the other. Still young musicians chose Island Records, known for its other Irish high-profile clients, namely the band U2. To work on their first single "Uncertain", the musicians hired Pearse Gilmore, the former vocalist of the local Limerick band Private World, which lasted only a couple of years, and the sound engineer of the Xeric Records studio, where the Cranberries recorded their demo tapes, as producers. The single, released in 1991, was poorly received by critics - the press claimed that the title of the song ("Uncertain") became prophetic, because the group really sounded uncertain, the group's music, at the insistence of Piers Gilmour, became paler, with the addition of then fashionable dance rhythms and guitar parts, removing into the background the main thing that the group had - the voice of Dolores. A video was also shot for the song, but only a 40-second version of the video is available to this day. their contract with Island, a clause to help the label maintain his personal studio, led to a permanent break with him, and The Cranberries took on another team - Jeff Travis (Gepff Travis) from the label Rough Trade as a manager and Stephen Street (Stephen Street) , known for his work with The Smiths and Blur, to the place of the producer of the debut record.
The modestly titled album “Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?” (Everyone does it, so why can't we?), which came to Dolores's mind in 1992, when she was at one of the concerts of an Irish unpromising rock band, was released in the spring of 1993. The single “Dreams” was released first, followed by “ Linger" - but the audience did not pay any attention to the group at first. The Cranberries went on tour in the status of almost losers - however, while they were touring, MTV suddenly became sympathetic to their “Linger” video and began to actively promote it. The single became extremely popular, and the first album of the young band made a unique operation - initially falling out of the album top 100 for good, then he returned there and climbed right up to the very first place.
On July 18, 1994, Dolores married Duran Duran tour manager Don Burton (Don Burton, 01/27/1962). They met at the end of 1993, when the group toured as the opening act for Duran Duran. Their romance began to develop rapidly, Don gave young flowers to the singer, made the band's concert last longer than usual, arranged dates. Don already had a child from his first marriage, son Donny (Donny Burton, 1991), but Dolores reacted positively to this, accepting him as her own. Don chose the date of the wedding , randomly proposing Dolores to get married "for example, on July 18." Their wedding was quite actively covered in the press because of Dolores' frank wedding dress - transparent pants and blouse, high boots and a veil, 200 guests were invited (later it was said in the press that Dolores "stole "Duran Duran has a tour manager, because after the wedding, Don stopped working with the Durans").
The group's first new single, "Zombie", introduced a new, harder sound to the public - despite this change, "Zombie" proved to be even more popular than "Linger". The same story happened with the band's second album "No Need to Argue", released in October 1994 - it made real superstars out of The Cranberries. At the moment, the first two records of The Cranberries remain the most successful - the world level of sales of the album "Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?" is 7 kopecks million copies, and in the case of "No Need to Argue" this figure has exceeded 16 million.
During the tour to promote the second album, rumors began to circulate that O'Riordan was going to leave the band and pursue a solo career. Dolores really came to the fore more and more in the group - both in videos and in terms of songwriting. She was directly involved in the recording of the Jah Wobble song "The Sun Does Rise", for which a clip was released in the spring of 1994 (in the video Dolores starred in a blond wig and sitting, due to a recent knee injury after an accident at a ski resort) At the end of 1995, Dolores performed a duet with Luciano Pavarotti himself, performing the song "Ave Maria" (this performance moved Princess Diana to tears, sitting in front row at this show) and with Duran Duran frontman Simon LeBon, with whom they sang The Cranberries hit "Linger".
However, despite this, the group's third album "To the Faithful Departed" was recorded by the whole team together, from November to December 1995. This time the group replaced Stephen Street with Bruce Fairbairn (Bruce Fairbairn, died May 17, 1999), known for his work with rock bands such as Bon Jovi and Aerosmith. The resulting record was much louder and sharper than The Cranberries' previous work, leading to harsh press criticism of the band's ambitions to become a stadium rock band and a decline in sales. The circulation of "To the Faithful Departed" was more than pretty (at least 6 million copies worldwide), but these figures were not comparable with the performance of previous albums, and the group decided to take a time out. Scheduled for the fall of 1996, tours in Europe and Australia were canceled due to renewed pain in the same knee Dolores had injured in 1994, after an unsuccessful stage jump during one of the performances and the physical fatigue of the entire group as a whole, which again gave rise to a lot of rumors about the upcoming breakup of the group and the departure of Dolores.
The group stopped working for a while, but despite this, Dolores recorded a song for the soundtrack of the film "The Devil`s Own", called "God Be With You", and also took part in the recording of the tribute album of the legendary band with Noel Fleetwood Mac, recording a cover version of the song "Go Your Own Way". In April, at the wedding of drummer Fergal, Dolores announced to everyone that she was pregnant. In November 1997, O'Riordan had her first child, son Taylor Baxter Burton.
The Cranberries returned to work on new records at the end of 1997. The main themes of the songs were Dolores' motherhood and the group's lighter and more carefree attitude to the press and show business. In November 1998, the group performed at the Nobel Prize in Oslo, a little later Dolores and Fergal were invited to the MTV Europe Music Avards, where they presented the award to singer Natalie Imbruglia for the song "Torn". In February 1999, a new single "Promises" appeared, and in April the band's fourth album, "Bury the Hatchet" was released. The desire of the musicians to return to the sound of the first two records was quite obvious, the public reacted favorably to them - the album sold a good circulation of more than 4 million copies, and their 1999-2000 world tour became their most successful tour. In parallel with the tour, the band re-released their latest album in an expanded form - the edition called "Bury the Hatchet - The Complete Sessions" included a bonus disc with songs recorded during the work on the album, but left overboard. Later, the band re-released all their albums in this form - and collected them together in a box set called "Treasure Box". A DVD was also released with a concert in Paris in 1999 - "Beneath The Skin: Live In Paris".
For their next record, Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, their old producer friend Stephen Street returned. The album, however, turned out to be the least successful of all their records, as it was recorded during Dolores' pregnancy. The sound turned out to be calm, even and gentle. On January 27, 2001, O'Riordan gave birth to her second child, daughter Molly Lee Burton. The next tour ended in 2002, and soon after that The Cranberries released a collection of the best songs "Stars - The Best of 1992 - 2002". In 2002, the musicians played a short tour of Europe, gave several concerts in 2003 (some opening for The Rolling Stones, and some solo), and then announced that they were going to go about their business indefinitely. No one called it the breakup of the group, however, in the past few years since then, the group never once got together.
In 2003, Dolores recorded the song "Mirror Lover" with the German band Jam & Spoon for the album "Tripomatic Fairytales 3003". In 2004, she sang with the Italian singer Zucchero on his duet album "Zu & Co" (among other project participants were such stars as Sting, Sheryl Crow and Luciano Pavarotti), then voiced several songs by composer Angelo Badalamenti for the soundtrack of the Italian film “Evilenko”, such as "The Butterfly", "Ave Maria" (for the soundtrack "Passion Of The Christ" at the invitation of Mel Gibson) and "Angels Go to Heaven" (OST "Evilenko").
On April 10, 2005, Dolores gave birth to her third child, a girl named Dakota Rain.
Noel Hogan released a solo album in 2005 under the banner of “Mono Band”, Fergal Lawler became a member of The Low Network, which has not yet released a single album. O'Riordan was also in no hurry to start a solo career - her first steps as a solo artist were rather modest.
In April 2006, Dolores played a small role in the comedy film Click (in the Russian box office - "Click: with a remote control for life"), with Adam Sandler (Adam Sandler) in the title role. The film premiered in the summer of 2006. Dolores appears near the end of the film, in a wedding scene singing a new version of Linger (similar to the one performed at the Vatican in December 2005) live on stage. In addition, a small excerpt from the original version of Linger is heard in the film itself. The role of Dolores is listed in the credits as Singer - Singer. As the film's producers and director later said, Linger was chosen because it's one of their favorite songs and Dolores is a great singer.
Dolores recorded her first full-length solo record only on May 8, 2007 - it was called "Are You Listening?"
On August 24, 2009, Dolores' 2nd solo album was released, called "No Baggage?". Dolores' tour of America, scheduled for September 2009, was canceled because one of the musicians let her down and refused to go on tour. And in the end, a decision was made team up with Noel, Mike and Fergal, and in November 2009 go on a joint tour already as The Cranberries in full force. The plans include performing both the group's already known world hits and Dolores' solo material.
Compound
1989-1990
Niall Quinn - vocals, lyrics
1990-2003
Dolores O'Riordan - vocals, lyrics, music, guitar, keyboards
Noel Hogan − music, guitar
Mike Hogan - bass guitar
Fergal Lawler - drums
genre of music
Alternative guitar rock (although Dolores believes that their work cannot be attributed to any particular genre).
Famous hits and singles
During its existence, the group released several singles, many of which became hits in the US, Europe and Asia.
The Cranberries singles: "Uncertain" (1991), "Dreams" (1993), "Linger" (1993), "Zombie" (1994), "Ode To My Family" (1994), "Ridiculous Thoughts" (1994), "I Can't Be With You" (1994), "Salvation" (1996), "Free to Decide" (1996), "When You're Gone" (1996), "Hollywood" (1996, single released only in France), "Promises" (1999), "Animal Instinct" (1999), "Just My Imagination" (1999), "You & Me" (1999, single released only in Europe), "Analyse" (2001), " Time Is Ticking Out" (2001), "This Is The Day" (2001), "Stars" (2002).
Distinctive features
Bright and strong vocals by Dolores O'Riordan, melodic rock with slight national influences, "open" guitar drive, heartfelt lyrics (love songs and songs on serious topics such as ethnic conflicts, drugs, environmental issues, child abuse, greed, cruelty of people). According to one of the music reviewers, The Cranberries is a unique combination of agonizing love songs, menacing accusations and beautiful melodies.
Temporary leave and solo projects
The Cranberries have been on temporary leave since 2003. The three members of the band - Dolores O'Riordan, Noel Hogan and Fergal Lawler - are busy developing their solo projects. Mike Hogan opened a cafe in Limerick and occasionally plays bass at his brother's concerts.
In 2005, Noel Hogan released his album "MONO BAND", and since 2007, together with vocalist Richard Walters, he has been developing a new project - the group "Arkitekt".
Dolores O'Riordan's debut solo album Are You Listening? was released on May 7, 2007, its release was preceded by the single "Ordinary Day".
In 2006-2007 Fergal Lauler wrote songs and played drums in his new band The Low Network, which he created with his buddies Kieran Calvert (Woodstar member) and Jennifer McMahon. However, The Low Network fell apart after recording only a three-track EP.
Dolores O'Riordan's second solo album "No Baggage" was released on August 24, 2009. Dolores refused to tour in support of the album, motivating this act with a desire to spend more time with her family. However, she was not slow to announce that The Cranberries would reunite for a reunion -tour already in November 2009, during which both the classic hits of the group and songs from Dolores' two solo albums will be performed.There is no talk about recording a new album yet.
Discography
Uncertain EP - 1991
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? - 1993
No Need To Argue - 1994
To the Faithful Departed - 1996
Bury The Hatchet - 1999
Wake Up And Smell The Coffee - 2001
Stars: The Best of 1992-2002 - 2002
