Sinéad O’Connor‘s biggest hit was a cover of the Prince song “Nothing Compares 2 U,” but the two musicians didn’t have a great relationship.In a 2009 interview, O’Connor said that she “loved” Prince’s music before covering the track, which spent four weeks at No.
1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and appeared on her 1990 album, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got. “Did I ever meet Prince? I did and, we didn’t like each other.
At all,” O’Connor told Uncut magazine in 2013. “I’m not going to go into it, but we detest each other. It got violent too, which is why I can’t go into it, but it is a very funny story.
I’ll tell it when I’m an old lady and I write my book.”O’Connor finally opened up about her alleged encounter with Prince — who died in April 2016 at age 57 — in her 2021 memoir, Rememberings.
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