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Large collection of items related to Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor, the majority of which relate to her 1990 world tour in support of her second studio album, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, which featured her Grammy Award-winning cover of Prince’s ‘Nothing Compares 2 U.’ The collection contains a wide variety of formats, such as magazines, photographs, VHS and cassette tapes, backstage passes, itinerary booklets, tour apparel such as t-shirts, sunglasses, and hoodie sweatshirts, and newspaper clippings. Highlights include:
Five original color candid photographs of an incognito O’Connor posing with protesters outside the Saratoga Performing Arts Center before her scheduled concert on August 29, 1990. The photos, ranging in size from 4.25 x 3.5 to 4.5 x 4, show the singer disguised in a brown wig mingling with protesters rankled by her successful demand that New Jersey’s Garden State Arts Center not play ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ at her concert from a week earlier. The lot also includes a VHS tape of the WNYT-TV Albany evening news covering the protest, a copy of the New York Post from August 27, 1990, with the headline, “Irish Singer Snubs U.S.,” and a cassette tape marked “Sinead / Saratoga, 8-29-90,” which contains audio of the Saratoga concert.
Five cassette tapes, including a promotional copy of I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, and four live recordings from the following concerts: Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham, England, on April 17, 1990; Manchester Apollo on April 21, 1990; Hammersmith Odeon in London, on April 24, 1990 (BBC broadcast); and Berkeley Community Theatre in Berkeley, California, on June 3, 1990.
Other items include: an official tour program; blue souvenir sunglasses from the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA; an unopened glass bottle of spring water from O’Connor’s concert at Great Woods in Mansfield, MA, on August 14-15, 1990; six spiral-bound tour itinerary booklets for O’Connor’s 1990 Tours of Europe and America, and more. In overall fine condition.
From the collection of Susie Davis, former keyboard player for Sheila E., who toured with legendary artists such as Prince, Mick Jagger, Billy Idol, Van Morrison, Sinead O'Connor, and many others.
