The Cranberries

. In the 1980s and 1990s, he returned to secular pop music. Dolores sings the title track to the movie The Passion of the Christ, "Ave Maria". In the late 1970s, Dion recorded albums in the Contemporary Christian Music vein. Dolores went on to record a solo album (to be released in early 2006) and Noel launched into the recording of a guitar album, off which two songs were released in November 2004 on the European iTunes download service under the name Mono Band. His Born To Be With You album, produced by Phil Spector and released in 1973, was a commercial disaster, but has been cited by Jason Pierce of Spiritualized as a major influence on Spiritualized's work. However, in 2004, The Cranberries announced they were taking some time to pursue individual careers. He continued to record protest songs into the 1970s.

A new single, the title track off of the Stars CD, charted in Europe and Asia. Kennedy. A "best of" compilation entitled Stars was released in 2002, along with a DVD of groundbreaking award-winning music videos. After getting clean from drug use (he has remained clean ever since except for a brief period in the mid-1970s) he switched to protest songs in the late 1960s; his best-known song as a soloist, "Abraham, Martin, and John", was a response to the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. The band seemed to be back on track. During the mid-1960s, he struggled with his addictions and recorded songs in a folk-rock vein. charts. He was a singer and songwriter whose career began in popular music in the 50s with his group known as Dion & the Belmonts.He went solo in the early 1960s and continued to have hits with songs like "Runaround Sue", "The Wanderer" and "Ruby Baby" until 1964, when changing public tastes and heroin addiction caused him to enter a commercial decline.

The album debuted at number 54 in the U.S. Dion DiMucci was born July 18, 1939 in the Bronx, New York, United States. In 2001 they released Wake Up And Smell The Coffee to rave reviews. During the next few years, the band cancelled a large tour and rumors of a breakup were widespread, though they released Bury the Hatchet to mixed reviews in 1999. Amidst rumors of O'Riordan's imminent departure, the band released To the Faithful Departed to limited success.

Zombie, one of the band's most famous songs, was a protest about the violence between Protestant and Catholic extremists in Northern Ireland in the time of The Troubles [1] (http://www.cloudsmagazine.com/12/Carmen_Bujdei_The_Irish_Experience.htm). O'Riordan's status as frontwoman was causing tensions within the group as they recorded No Need to Argue, another hit album that included Zombie and Ode to My Family. In 1994, O'Riordan married Don Burton, the band's tour manager. The single Dreams also became a hit reaching #14 on the US charts.

The second single, Linger, became a huge hit in both the United Kingdom and the United States. After ditching their manager, the Cranberries recorded Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?. After a major-label bidding war, The Cranberries signed with Island Records and recorded Uncertain, their debut single which was unsuccessful. Their homemade demo tape sold well locally, and the band soon recorded a demo tape that earned much popular and critical interest.

The band was originally named The Cranberry Saw Us. Dolores O'Riordan auditioned for and won the role of lead singer, writing a song called "Linger" based around the band's existing demo. Noel and Mike Hogan, two brothers from Limerick City, formed the band with drummer Fergal Lawler in 1990. The Cranberries are an Irish rock and roll band that arose to mainstream popularity in the 1990s. They (temporarily) disbanded in 2003.

Stars - The Best of 1992 - 2002 (2002). Beneath The Skin - Live In Paris. Children Of Bosnia. Animal Instinct (1999) – UK charts: #54.

Promises (1999) – UK charts: #13. Free To Decide (1996) – UK charts: #33. Salvation (1996) – UK charts: #13. Ridiculous Thoughts (1995) – UK charts: #20.

I Cant Be With You (1995) – UK charts: #23. Ode To My Family (1994) – UK charts: #26. Zombie (1994) – UK charts: #1. Dreams (1994) – UK charts: #27; US charts: #14.

Linger (Re-Issue) (1994) – UK charts: #4. Linger (1993) – UK charts: #74. Stars - The Best of 1992 - 2002 (2002) – UK charts: #20. Bury the Hatchet - The Complete Sessions (2000) – 26 track release.

In Concert: New Rock #94-44, disc 2 of 2 (1994). In Concert at the BBC (1994) – limited UK release. Doors And Windows (1995) (multimedia disk). Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (2001) – UK charts: #61.

Bury the Hatchet (1999) – UK charts: #7. To the Faithful Departed (1996) – UK charts: #2. No Need to Argue (1994) – UK charts: #2. Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Canīt We? (1993) – UK charts: #1; US charts: #18.

Uncertain EP (1992).