‘You hadn’t the guts to support her’: Morrissey decries music industry after Sinéad O’Connor’s death

Former Smiths frontman writes impassioned screed on his website, criticising media and record labels for lack of support for O’Connor during her life

Morrissey has written a vociferous tribute to the late Sinéad O’Connor, decrying the media and music industry for a lack of support for the singer.

Praising her “proud vulnerability”, he writes on his website: “There is a certain music industry hatred for singers who don’t ‘fit in’ (this I know only too well), and they are never praised until death – when, finally, they can’t answer back […] You praise her now ONLY because it is too late. You hadn’t the guts to support her when she was alive and she was looking for you.