A significant collection of interviews with the defiant, controversial, and ground-breaking singer, songwriter, and activist throughout her turbulent career . . . Brilliant, loveable, mercurial, troubled: Sinéad O'Connor was one of the most important Irish artists of the past 50 years. Her voice inspired awe, and her songs traversed the full spectrum of the human spirit, addressing both emotional despair and incandescent joy with glorious, fearless ardor. This collection covers the entire span of O'Connor's short life, in her own words. From giddy teenager to seasoned superstar, from her…mehr
A significant collection of interviews with the defiant, controversial, and ground-breaking singer, songwriter, and activist throughout her turbulent career . . . Brilliant, loveable, mercurial, troubled: Sinéad O'Connor was one of the most important Irish artists of the past 50 years. Her voice inspired awe, and her songs traversed the full spectrum of the human spirit, addressing both emotional despair and incandescent joy with glorious, fearless ardor. This collection covers the entire span of O'Connor's short life, in her own words. From giddy teenager to seasoned superstar, from her devotion to her children to her consistent and compelling passion for activism, Sinéad's message never wavered. Her interviews reveal a character that was complicated, confident, and clear. These conversations render O'Connor as an ingenue and as a flirt, in love and in strife, in turbulent times and calm; they follow her lifelong quest for spiritual truth; they flaunt her mordant, coruscating wit. In them, O'Connor lives through her meteoric rise to fame after releasing megasmash albums The Lion and the Cobra and I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, and she recounts what happened when she ripped up a photo of Pope John Paul II on "Saturday Night Live"--a shocking act of protest that got her blacklisted at the time but has since earned her respect. Unguarded and unpredictable, O'Connor, in these interviews, is the woman who electrified the globe: imaginative, vulnerable, opinionated, and eloquent.
Sinéad O'Connor (8 December 1966 - 26 July 2023) was a singer, songwriter, and activist. Her debut studio album, The Lion and the Cobra, was released in 1987 and achieved international chart success. Her 1990 album, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, was her biggest commercial success, selling over seven million copies worldwide. Her memoir Rememberings (2021) received broad critical praise, and she was the subject of the documentary Nothing Compares (2022). Kristin Hersh is a musician’s musician, a songwriter’s songwriter, and an innovator’s innovator. The Queen of Grunge’s first band, Throwing Muses, began recording and playing out when they were just 14 years old. She has released more than 20 albums solo, with Throwing Muses, and with her noise rock band, 50 Foot Wave. Rolling Stone named her first book, Rat Girl, one of the ten best rock memoirs of all time. NPR said of her second book, Don’t Suck, Don’t Die, “Not only one of the best books of the year, but one of the most beautiful rock memoirs ever written.” Her third, the game-changing Seeing Sideways, describes raising four sons on a tour bus. Hersh's book The Future of Songwriting was published by Melville House in 2024.
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Table of Contents
Introduction Kristin Hersh New Orleans, May 2024
Somebody Up There Likes Me Interview by Kate Holmquist The Irish Times October 17th, 1986
I Open My Mouth and Scream Interview by Barry Egan New Musical Express October 29, 1988
Sinead O’Connor: The Rolling Stone Interview Interview by David Wild March 1, 1991
Special Child Interview by Bob Gucccione, Jr. Spin November 1991
Going It Alone Interview by Deirdre Mulrooney “Mothers and Babies” supplement, The Irish Independent July 2004
Jah Nuh Dead Interview by Nicholas Jennings Inside Entertainment July 2005
Something Beautiful Interview by Jody Denberg KUTX 98.9 Radio, Austin, Texas April 11, 2007
Q&A: Sinead O’Connor on How Gays Changed Her Life and Getting Her D*ck Hard Interview by Chris Azzopardi Pride Source July 22, 2014
Protest Singer The View/American Broadcasting Company June 25, 2021
