I knew Sinéad O’Connor when she had hair. I used to see her around Dublin in the early 1980s, a shy, awkward teenager with a strange and intense vocal presence. I watched her rise with fascination, when she shaved her perfectly shaped head and unleashed that beautiful banshee wail. Her shattering cover of Prince’s Nothing Compares 2 U took her to number one all over the world in 1990, aged 24. So I parlayed my connections to wangle an interview. It was a disaster.
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