Of the many staggering and astonishing moments in Sinéad O’Connor’s new memoir Rememberings, from being beaten up by her mother when she was a child to becoming America’s public enemy No1 in 1992 after ripping up a photo of the Pope on Saturday Night Live, one sticks out in particular.
In 1990, nine months after the release of her peerless cover of Prince’s Nothing Compares 2 U, she was staying in Los Angeles when the telephone rings.
An effeminate but threatening voice asks if that is ‘Shine-head O Khan-er’. It’s Prince. He’s sending a car to take her to his mansion in the Hollywood Hills.
After O’Connor is dropped off by a silent limousine driver, the door is opened by an Igor-like figure who leads her through a darkened house, its
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