“Jackie” by Sinéad O'Connor

"Jackie" is on The Lion and the Cobra, the debut album Sinéad O'Connor released through Ensign and Chrysalis in October 1987, a record she made while heavily pregnant with her first child and one whose title comes from Psalm 91:13. She wrote and arranged the song, sings lead, plays electric guitar alongside Rob Dean, and produced it with Kevin Moloney, who engineered and mixed it with her and Fachtna Ó Ceallaigh. Mike Clowes adds keyboards and synthesizer, Spike Hollifield plays bass, and John Reynolds handles both the drums and the drum machine.

Looking back in 2005, O'Connor said she was proud of the album's songs but wrote them as a kind of therapy, and had little wish to go back and sing them.

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