Sinéad O’Connor Memoir ‘Rememberings’ Jumps To Bestseller List Days After The Singer’s Death
etcanada.comFollowing Sinéad O’Connor’s death, her 2021 memoir Rememberings has soared to the top of the bestseller lists. Last Wednesday, the beloved pop star was found “unresponsive” at her London home.
She was 56. In Rememberings, O’Connor recounted the story of her controversial and celebrated career from her point of view.
The Irish singer rose to fame in the late 1980s and ’90s with several gold records, and jumped to stardom after covering Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” — perhaps her best known hit single. READ MORE: Bob Geldof Recalls Final Texts From Sinéad O’Connor Both ‘Full Of Desperation’ And ‘Ecstatically Happy’ Before Her Death In 1992, the musician’s career quickly fell apart after she protested on “Saturday Night Live”, in which she tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II while staring directly into a camera.
However, O’Connor felt otherwise. “I feel that having a No. 1 record derailed my career,” she wrote in the book, “and my tearing the photo put me back on the right track.” READ MORE: Sinéad O’Connor Instructed Her Kids To Protect Her Art And Finances After Her Death Elsewhere in the memoir, O’Connor looks back at her life before fame, beginning with her troubled childhood as she grew up in a dysfunctional home in Dublin with her abusive family.
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