We're pleased to announce that we're bringing music back, on Allie Is Wired.Why? ... simply put, I miss posting about music.My first string of posts will be on VH1's -100 Greatest One Hit Wonders, presenting only the Top 20 Countdown. Eh... it'll be fun,... just check back daily and enjoy.18. - Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'ConnorBest I can offer on this one is a video:sourceSinad Marie Bernadette O'Connor (born December 8, 1966) is a Grammy Award winning Irish singer and songwriter. She is also a priest of the Palmarian Catholic Church, and appeared in a cameo role as the Virgin Mary in Neil Jordan's 1997 film The Butcher Boy.O'Connor was born in Dublin and was named after Sinad de Valera, wife of Irish President amon de Valera and mother of the doctor presiding over the delivery, and Saint Bernadette of Lourdes. She was the middle of five children, sister to Joseph, Eimear, John, and Eoin. Joseph O'Connor is now a notable novelist. Her parents were Jack O'Connor, a structural engineer later turned barrister, and Marie O'Connor. The couple married young and had a troubled relationship, splitting up when O'Connor was eight. The three eldest children went to live with their mother, where O'Connor claims they were subjected to frequent physical abuse. Her song "Fire On Babylon" is about the effects of her own child abuse, and Sinead has consistently advocated on behalf of abused children. Jack O'Connor's efforts to secure custody of his children in a country which routinely gave custody to the mother and prohibited divorce caused him to become chairman of the Divorce Action Group and a prominent public spokesman. At one point, he even debated his own wife on the subject on a radio show.O'Connor has been married twice. Her first marriage was to John Reynolds, a record producer, writer and musician who co-produced several albums, including her fourth, Universal Mother, in 1994. Her second marriage was to Nicholas Sommerlad, a journalist said to be related to the Queen of Sweden (whose maiden name is Sommerlath), in 2002 but they separated in 2003. She has also previously dated Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis; the band's song "I Could Have Lied" was written about O'Connor. In a 2000 interview in Curve, O'Connor outed herself as a lesbian, "I'm a lesbian ... although I haven't been very open about that and throughout most of my life I've gone out with blokes because I haven't necessarily been terribly comfortable about being a lesbian. But I actually am a lesbian." However, soon after in an interview in The Independent, she stated, "I believe it was overcompensating of me to declare myself a lesbian. It was not a publicity stunt. I was trying to make someone else feel better. And have subsequently caused pain for myself. I am not in a box of any description." In a magazine article and in a programme on RT (Ryan Confidential, broadcast on RT 1 on May 29, 2003), she stated that while most of her sexual relationships had been with men, she has had three relationships with women. " In a May 2005 issue of Entertainment Weekly, she stated, "I'm three-quarters heterosexual, a quarter gay. I lean a bit more towards the hairy blokes."She has four children: a son, Jake Reynolds, by her first husband; a daughter, Risn Waters, by The Irish Times columnist John Waters; and another son, Shane. O'Connor gave birth to her fourth child, Yeshna Francis Neil, on December 19, 2006 . The baby's father is her former partner Frank Bonadio.Sinead O'Connor Fan Site
