The Cranberries Singer Dolores O’Riordan Had the Best Response to the Ego-Bruised Man She Wrote ‘Linger’ About
Dolores O’Riordan wrote the lyrics to the Cranberries’ 1993 hit “Linger” after being publicly dumped by a guy at a disco club. The song began as just chord shapes, she described to The Guardian in 2017. It was the first proper song the group wrote, shortly after O’Riordan auditioned for the band, where they gave her a tape of the music. “I wrote about being rejected,” she said. “I never […]
