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Sinead O'Connor: Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts

Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 15 August 1990

MANSFIELD – The last time Sinead O'Connor hit town, in May at the Orpheum, her star was rapidly ascending, and she took the stage with a force rarely glimpsed. Shrouded in red, she belted out 'Feel So Different', an 'Eleanor Rigby' sort of ballad that rolled calm, tension, synth-strings and breathtaking vocal and emotional leaps into one short song. A multiple-crescendo, mini-concert of its own.

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