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Exclusive: Nothing Compares To U singer Sineád O’Connor is the latest pop star to get the feature doc treatment.

Irish producer ShinAwiL has teamed up with Orian Williams, the film producer behind Joy Division biopic Control, and DJ Dave Fanning to tell the story of the controversial artist.

Sineád (w/t) is an access-led feature documentary celebrating the musical work of the Grammy Award-winner. Irish director Maurice Sweeney, who directed Ira doc I Dolours, will helm with Williams, ShinAwiL’s Larry Bass and Fanning exec producing.

It will tell the story of O’Connor, who now goes by Shuhada Sadaqat after converting to Islam in 2018, who broke through with her 1987 album The Lion and the Cobra and her 1990 cover of the Prince-penned Nothing Compares To U.

O’Connor has courted controversy throughout her career; she is arguably best known for appearing on Saturday Night Live in 1992. While singing a...

The Cranberries will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?, with a reissue box set out October 19th via Island/UMe.

The Irish rock outfit began planning the reissue last year, but put the project on hold after singer Dolores O’Riordan died in January. In March, the surviving members of the Cranberries announced they were moving forward with the project, as well as a new album they’d begun to record.

The 25th anniversary edition of Everybody Else...

U2 was rehearsing in Paris, less than three miles away from Le Bataclan concert hall, where terrorists opened fire on music fans attending an Eagles of Death Metal concert Friday. The band was slated to perform on Saturday as part of their Innocence + Experience tour, but have since rescinded the show, as Paris is in lockdown. Emphasizing that canceling the concert was not the band’s idea, lead singer Bono said to Irish DJ Dave Fanning in a radio interview:“Our first thoughts at this point are with the Eagles of Death Metal fans. If you think about it, the majority of victims last night are music fans. This is the first direct hit on music that we’ve had in this so-called War on Terror or whatever it’s called. It's very upsetting. These are our people. This could be me at a show. You at a show, in that venue.

After U2 visited a makeshift memorial at Le Batalcan to pay homage to the (at least) 127 people gunned down by terrorists at the venue during a Friday night concert, frontman Bono spoke to Irish DJ Dave Fanning about the Paris shootings. "Our first thoughts at this point are with the Eagles of Death Metal fans,” Bono said, via Rolling Stone. “If you think about it, the majority of victims last night are music fans. This is the first direct hit on music that we’ve had in this so-called War on Terror, or whatever it’s called. It’s very upsetting.

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Producer Swizz Beatz helped create 'Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour).'

By Shaheem Reid

Bono, Jay-z and Rihanna perform on "Hope for Haiti Now"

Photo: Dave M. Benett/ Getty Images

Jay-z, U2 and Rihanna got together in London to perform "Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)" in front of an audience as part of the "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief" telethon on Friday night (January 22).

The mid-tempo track featured guitar by The Edge and messages of hope from Jay-z, Rihanna and Bono. Along with Madonna's "Like a Prayer" and Wyclef Jean's finale, it was one of the most upbeat performance of the night.

"My Port-au-Princes and Haitians gods/ All my princesses/ Our condolences as we fight against this," Jay rapped to open the record. "We right by your side/ While we trying to make sense of this/ Heavenly Father/ Help us see through these problems/ For those...

'He's a brother,' Swizz tells MTV News about his friendship with the U2 frontman.

By Shaheem Reid

Bono and Swizz Beatz

Photo: Twitpic

Last month, some hip-hop fans were surprised to see a TwitPic of Swizz Beatz partying with U2's Bono. Recently, the two have come together for much more serious matters: a song to benefit Haiti relief efforts.

"Much love to Bono! His part is done now it's showtime!" Swizz wrote in all caps Wednesday (January 20) under a new TwitPic of him and Bono. "It is a blessing to have good people in your life!"

The new photo features the super-producer and the iconic singer holding up a sign that reads "One Love Haiti." A couple of weeks ago, Swizz told us he and Bono have been friends for a while.

"Me and Bono, he's a music lover," Swizz explained. "I'm a music lover. We knew each...

It’s been the worst-kept secret in Hollywood (well, apart from the one about [Censored] being massively [Censored]) for months, but finally it’s been officially confirmed that Dakota Fanning has joined the cast of Twilight sequel, New Moon. You now have permission to squeal with excitement, Twilight fans.The extraordinarily precocious Fanning – no relation to Irish music journo Dave Fanning, we presume – will play ancient and morally ambiguous bloodsucker Jane in the Chris Weitz-directed movie, which had better start filming soon, given that it’s got a November release date.Jane, of course, is a member of the Volturi, a clan of Italian vampires that Empire knew all about and didn’t have to look up on Wikipedia, honest. Immortal peacekeepers that protect the secret of vampirism, they factor into the plot when Robert Pattinson’s Edward Cullen [Spoiler Alert] takes his massive hair to Italy, moping over the apparent loss of his soulmate,...