Sinead O'Connor
Jones Beach, Wantaugh, NY I had been a fan of Sinéad since she burst onto the international music stage with her 1987 debut The Lion and the Cobra . In fact, by mid-1990, I was consumed with trying to meet her. At the time she was in the U.S. making promotional appearances for her second album, the exquisite I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got , I was working in the mailroom at A&M Records, and I pestered a number of co-workers who promoted music to radio stations, MTV, and the media to get in to some sort of press event--or anything--in which I might be able to say hello to Ms. O'Connor. Nobody could, or would, assist me. And to make matters worse I was then living in New York and handing over nearly all of my paycheck to my landlord, so I couldn't even afford a ticket to see one of her August amphitheater performances in the metropolitan area, at Long Island's Jones Beach or at the Garden State Arts Center in New Jersey. My pestering of co-workers did pay off, ho...