By Saffron Otter Irish superstar Sinead O’Connor’ channelled her own tragedy into her biggest hit, Nothing Compares 2 U. The moving song was originally written by Prince in 1984 for the funk band The Family. But it only became the biggest song of the decade after Sinead made it her own, crying real tears in the video with her hair shaved. Some believed the singer – who died of natural causes last year aged 56 – was making a deliberate fashion statement to stand out, but Sinead eventually revealed several heartbreaking reasons why she preferred the cropped style. The star first shaved her head …
