Sinead O'Connor Marries

Sinead O'Connor has married her boyfriend, British Press Association reporter Nick Sommerlad. According to British reports, the couple was married three weeks ago in Ireland in a private ceremony attended by a handful of friends.

A mutual friend introduced O'Connor and Sommerlad in February when he began working in Dublin. They were engaged in June. This is O'Connor's second marriage. She has one child, thirteen-year-old Jake, from a previous marriage to writer John Reynolds. She was also involved with an Irish Times columnist John Waters, who is the father to her five-year-old daughter Roisin.

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Song Stories

“Tonight's the Night”

The Shirelles | 1960

The lead cut and title track from this girl group's debut album, "Tonight's the Night" was written by 19-year-old bandmember Shirley Owens, who sings lead, and producer Luther Dixon. The band from Passaic, New Jersey met in high school, first calling themselves the Pequellos. The song's frank thoughts about sexual and emotional surrender was racy for the time, but that didn't stop the Chiffons from cutting a similar version immediately after the original came out. "We were the first female group to write some of our own material," band member Beverly Lee recalls. "We did have some say-so in our writing."

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