Sinead O’Connor to keep sex life beneath, not between, the covers

Celebrities with merely one autobiography are barely worthy of the name but Sinead O’Connor has now broken new ground by revising her memoirs before they are even written.

Having revealed on Tuesday that she would “look forward to dishing the sexual dirt on everyone I’ve ever slept with” in her as yet untitled book, yesterday the singer declared on her website that her sex life would remain beneath, not between, the covers.

In a blogpost on sineadoconnor.com, headlined Dear Everyone I Ever Slept With, the singer wrote: “I’ve no intention, nor ever had I of dishing the sexual dirt (it mostly wasn’t that interesting). I merely had to come up with a funny quote to attach with the press release for the book.

“Once I bought a book for my sister, The Book of Irish Erotic Art. All of the pages are blank. Such would be any book about my sex life. It just hasn’t been that exciting.The book is a memoir. Not an autobiography. And to be fair, I’ve sensibly forgotten 99.999% of anyone I ever slept with anyway.”

Blue Rider Press, the Penguin Group imprint that will publish the book in the United States, said the book would "cover the singer's turbulent upbringing in Ireland; her breakout as an artist with 1987's The Lion and the Cobra and her nine subsequent albums; her controversial opinions and actions, as well as her personal and musical struggles and triumphs, through the present day."

The memoir is scheduled to be be published in Ireland by Penguin Ireland in March 2016, which gives the singer plenty of time to change her mind again.