Sinead O’Connor’s 2021 memoir “Rememberings” has jumped to to the top of bestseller lists following the beloved pop star’s death last week. The Irish singer, best know…
O’Connor’s revelatory memoir recasts the story of her controversial and and acclaimed career from her own perspective. The singer rose to rapid fame in the late 1980s and ’90s with a string of gold records, and soaring to pop stardom with her cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U,” whose music video stars O’Connor with her signature buzzed head.
However, the singer’s fate took a rapid turn in 1992, when she stared down a camera on the stage of “Saturday Night Live” and tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II. The moment of protest, seen by millions, all but killed her career. But O’ Connor felt differently: “I feel that having a No. 1 record derailed my career,” she writes in the book, “and my tearing the photo put me back on the right track.”
In “Rememberings,” O’Connor also traces her life before the spotlight, starting with her troubled childhood in Dublin marked by a dysfunctional and abusive family life. After discovering Bob Dylan from her older brother, she escaped into music and found her way to local Irish bands. Later in the book, we see O’Connor completing her first album while eight months pregnant and spending her early 20s on the grungy streets of the East Village.
In addition to her memoir, O’Connor’s life story was also recounted in Katheryn Ferguson’s 2022 documentary “Nothing Compares,” currently available to stream on
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