Sinead: Her Life and Music

by Jimmy Guterman, Jimmy Gutterman

Here is the first book on the turbulent life and spectacular music of Sinead O'Connor, the Irish music sensation that the New York Times calls "the first major pop star of the '90s". The author of 12 Days on the Road: The Sex Pistols and America offers a revealing portrait of this young talent. 16 pages of photographs.

Genres: Biography, Music, Biography Memoir

Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[Olivia Ransom · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book didn't appeal to me, I tried the whole day to engage with the story, but it didn't happen.

Do not be deceived. It is not about her life. It is an irrelevant and vague compilation of magazine extracts written about Sinéad back in the 90s. With very few highlights and interesting anecdotes about her personality and upbringing.

[MacDara · Rating 2 out of 5]

It reads like a thrown together, rushed out amalgamation of hack magazine articles from an 'author' who's only vaguely aware of his subject, and has been given the job by his editors because he 'listens to pop music'. Often inaccurate, misleading, self-contradictory, simply untrue and arbitrarily assigning meanings to things that just aren't there, it's an amateur, gossipy affair at best.

To its credit, however, it fills in occasional gaps in my knowledge of the artist, and so avoids the minimum score.

Overall: avoid.

[Rudolf · Rating 4 out of 5]

Je kunt nooit genoeg lezen over sinead o connor. The lion and the cobra is niet te evenaren