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Sinead O’Connor : My manager brought the song to me and he convinced me to sing it. I was a bit hesitant, but I just did it then.
I was quite surprised that that song took off the way it did. I am still quite shocked about it. But it did change my life in a lot of ways.
(Source : not known)
Chris Birkett (co-producer) : When I met Sinead O’Connor, I was working with a label called Ensign Records, with Nigel Grainge. Ensign signed Buffy Sainte-Marie, Bob Geldof and Sinead O’Connor. He came into the studio regularly and we got on well. Everything I did for him sounded great, so he ended up taking me on as Ensign’s in-house producer. So that’s how I got to work with Sinead O’Connor. I mixed a couple of singles from ‘The Lion and the Cobra’ album, ‘Put ‘Em On Me’ and ‘Mandinka’. They sounded excellent, and so then they asked me to come in and produce ‘I do not want what I haven’t got’, which was the second album by Sinead for Ensign Records. I made Sinead’s album in 1989, but it came out in 1990 or 1991. The album became an international hit and included the song ‘Nothing Compares to U’, written by Prince. He had originally released that song himself, and so did another American band called Family, but they didn’t break. The arrangement we did was completely different, which with the help of the video became a number-one hit in every country in the world. When they released that song, the BBC – who had ultimate power in the pop world in those days – stopped playing it when it hit #42 in the charts. They didn’t think it was a hit. Then Sinead shot the video in the cemetery in Paris, and she starts crying in the video because the song had relevance to her late grandmother. Sinead loved her grandmother, and she was the only person who was nice to her while growing up in a very challenging Catholic family in Ireland. Her grandmother was her best friend.
(Source : 2016 interview at https://www.musicbizfinance.com/single-post/2016/07/05/Chris-Birkett-Why-True-Artists-Always-Thrive)
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I was quite surprised that that song took off the way it did. I am still quite shocked about it. But it did change my life in a lot of ways.
(Source : not known)
Chris Birkett (co-producer) : When I met Sinead O’Connor, I was working with a label called Ensign Records, with Nigel Grainge. Ensign signed Buffy Sainte-Marie, Bob Geldof and Sinead O’Connor. He came into the studio regularly and we got on well. Everything I did for him sounded great, so he ended up taking me on as Ensign’s in-house producer. So that’s how I got to work with Sinead O’Connor. I mixed a couple of singles from ‘The Lion and the Cobra’ album, ‘Put ‘Em On Me’ and ‘Mandinka’. They sounded excellent, and so then they asked me to come in and produce ‘I do not want what I haven’t got’, which was the second album by Sinead for Ensign Records. I made Sinead’s album in 1989, but it came out in 1990 or 1991. The album became an international hit and included the song ‘Nothing Compares to U’, written by Prince. He had originally released that song himself, and so did another American band called Family, but they didn’t break. The arrangement we did was completely different, which with the help of the video became a number-one hit in every country in the world. When they released that song, the BBC – who had ultimate power in the pop world in those days – stopped playing it when it hit #42 in the charts. They didn’t think it was a hit. Then Sinead shot the video in the cemetery in Paris, and she starts crying in the video because the song had relevance to her late grandmother. Sinead loved her grandmother, and she was the only person who was nice to her while growing up in a very challenging Catholic family in Ireland. Her grandmother was her best friend.
(Source : 2016 interview at https://www.musicbizfinance.com/single-post/2016/07/05/Chris-Birkett-Why-True-Artists-Always-Thrive)