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Singers in tune with the paranormal? REPORTS of the death of Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan at a London hotel focussed not only on her medical history – she had publicly spoken about her depression and bipolar disorder – but also on her views on death. She may even have predicted her passing. O’Riordan, from Limerick, Ireland, was in the capital for a recording session. Her death at the age of 47 is not being treated as suspicious. In a 2013 interview, O’Riordan told journalist Barry Egan: “I am not going to live long. I’m 43. If I see 50, I’ll be happy. I mean that.” Asked in another interview what she would be reincarnated as, the singer replied: “I think I’ll probably come back as an angel and I’d like to guide people or guard people going through similar experiences in life, whisper in their ear and kind of give them ideas on how to deal with things.” She was also happy to discuss, after her father’s passing, what death would be like. “I feel like when people die, I don’t really think they cross over straight away. I think that they get stuck in kind of an in-between place…. I didn’t feel like he crossed over properly, I felt like he was lingering a bit. He was around me a lot, I felt like it took time for him to move.” American rock singer and songwriter
Janis Joplin died from a heroin overdose nearly 50 years ago, but some so-called paranormal investigators seem to believe she hasn’t moved on and is still hanging around in Room 105 of the Highland Garden Hotel, Los Angeles, which she called home. A video made by the Hollywood Paranormal Detectives, who spent a night in the room, claims to have captured her voice on an SB-11 Spirit Box. It is now available on YouTube. Mark E. Smith, lead singer of punk band The Fall, who died in January at the age of 60, is unlikely to have trouble moving on. At one time in his life he was a tarot card reader, using his psychic abilities to pay for drugs. In his book Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith he reveals he had a talent for it. “I’ve always been able to read people. My mam’s a bit like that. I never used to charge a lot, but now you can earn a fortune… “When people did a tarot with me they’d walk away with their life changed. But you can’t **** around with those things too much. You’re dealing with a force.” According to Smith, it was wrong to take a lot of money for readings, but
he admitted: “You’d go round to dope dealers and they’d give you two ounces of dope per reading.” Despite having recorded 20 studio albums, by 2000 his financial situation was so bad that he had considered a return to tarot readings to earn an income. n Photo: Alterna2 (alterna2.com)
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Left to right: Janis Joplin in 1970, Mark E. Smith performing with The Fall in Edinburgh in 2011 and Dolores O’Riordan with The Cranberries in Barcelona, 2010
PSYCHIC NEWS | MARCH 2018
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