The Cranberries were a mirror of their front woman. Artistic and defiant, wrapped around a sweet nostalgia of long, lost love.

Dolores O’Riordan died on Monday, 15 January 2018, taking with her another piece of a decade robbed of some of its greatest stars.

Born in Limerick, an Irish town famous for breeding musicians and youth unemployment, O’Riordan came into The Cranberries when the band was already formed, replacing its front man Niall Quinn.

The year was 1990, and the band formerly known as The Cranberry Saw Us had morphed into the much catchier eponym The Cranberries.

But it wasn’t just the name that Dolores changed, it was also the songs and the style. At just 19, the short-haired girl with leather pants and a sweet smile presented the band with what would become one of their biggest hits.

Linger is the story of O’Riordan’s first love, a young soldier shipped away to Lebanon who stole her a kiss and then moved on.

She will remain in our hearts forever.