You Made Me The Thief Of Your Heart

Sinead O’Connor: “You Made Me The Thief Of Your Heart” (Island)

Let’s pre-empt the usual “oh, it’s only Single Of The Week because U2 are involved in it” bollocks by saying that this could have been co-written by Saddam Hussein, Billy Bingham and Bishop Eamonn, and it’d still be rivet-gunned to the office dansette.

After the huge non-event that was her Am I Not Your Girl album, Sinead gets to wrap her still-divine tonsils round a darkly atmospheric song that’s given extra spice by Maurice Seezer’s wonderfully eccentric piano work.

Proof, if indeed any’s needed, that Sinead has a long way to go before reaching her sell-by date.