Sinéad O'Connor's "Black Boys On Mopeds" is one of those songs that only becomes more topical and more powerful with every passing year. The song comes from O'Connor's 1989 debut album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, and she wrote it about the 1983 Colin Roach, a 21-year-old black Londoner whose death, ruled…
Watch Sharon Van Etten Cover The Hell Out Of Sinéad O'Connor's "Black Boys On Mopeds"
Stereogum - 25 Apr 2019 17:05
Sinéad O'Connor's "Black Boys On Mopeds" is one of those songs that only becomes more topical and more powerful with every passing year. The song comes from O'Connor's 1989 debut album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, and she wrote it about the 1983 Colin Roach, a 21-year-old black Londoner whose death, ruled…
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