Title: Rememberings /
Authors: O'Connor, Sinéad
Year: 2021
Subjects: O'Connor, Sinéad; O'Connor, Sinéad; Singers Ireland Biography; Rock musicians Ireland Biography; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists.; Rock musicians; Singers; Ireland
Abstract: "From the acclaimed, controversial singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor comes a revelatory memoir of her fraught childhood, musical triumphs, struggles with illness, and of the enduring power of song"--
Contents: Foreword -- Prologue: Hey, hey, we're the Monkees! -- The piano -- My grandfathers -- August 1977 -- Lourdes -- My Aunt Frances -- The train -- Lost in the music -- Will you still love me tomorrow? -- My mother's record collection -- Why I sing -- The house of the rising sun, part one -- The house of the rising sun, part two -- The house of the rising sun, part three -- Song to the siren -- Sisters -- Any dream will do -- John, I love you -- About my dad -- Poem from my youth -- Who are you? -- Settling in -- A lesson or two -- Inflammable material -- Shaving my head -- The lion and the cobra -- Clocks 'n' woks -- My boy Lollipop, July 1987 -- The way young lovers do -- There is a light that never goes out, 1987 -- Good news, bad news, et cetera -- Funny how time slips away -- Paper roses -- Sheviti Adonai L'negdi Tamid -- That's why there's chocolate and vanilla -- War, part one -- Saturday Night Live, 1992 -- War, part two -- Gotta serve somebody -- It ain't necessarily so -- The condition my condition is in -- 1992, a few days later -- Homeless man at Easter -- War, part three -- October 1992 -- My star-spangled banner -- Some musical notes -- I do not want what I haven't got -- Am I not your girl? -- Universal mother -- Gospel oak -- Faith and courage -- Sean-Nós Nua -- Throw down your arms -- Theology -- How about I be me -- I'm not bossy -- Coming soon... -- Dagger through my heart -- The greatest love of all -- Lou Reed -- Some lessons and true tales -- Mr. Bigstuff -- Jake, Roisin, Shane, and Yeshua -- The wizard of Oz -- Forward and now -- September 25, 2019 -- Postscript -- Epilogue.