My strongest memory of Sinead O’Connor is seeing her at a house party in Dublin in 1991, shortly after she had had her colossally successful global hit, “Nothing Compares 2 U”, the song Prince wrote for his side project, The Family.
The song had made her famous, but it hadn’t made her happy. At the party – in Dalkey, by the coast – she wandered around, dressed in a smock, muttering to herself and looking incredibly sad.
