Sinéad O'Connor sparked fury when she tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live in 1992. It's being remembered as one of her most famous acts of protest. Read more:
The singer-songwriter was known as much for her outspoken views on religion, sex, feminism and war as for her music.This article contains reference to suicide.
She performed a rendition Bob Marley's War, with some lyrics changed to reflect child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.Source:At the end of the song, she held up a photo of Pope John Paul II, declaring: "Fight the real enemy", and then ripped up the photo as she stared into the camera.
When O'Connor performed at a Bob Dylan tribute show at New York's Madison Square Garden two weeks later, she was booed off the stage.And a few days after that, the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations — now known as the Ellis Island Honors Society — hired a 30-ton steamroller and crushed a pile of O'Connor's albums in front of the New York office of Chrysalis Records in retaliation.
"And it did make you think like, you know if a male rock star did that at the time when he would he have effectively been banished from the music business the way she was. And I'm not sure he would have.”“Sinéad O’Connor was definitely one of the most complex pop and rock stars, maybe -maybe of all time, certainly the last couple of decades," he said.
Brash and direct - her shaved head, pained expression, and shapeless wardrobe a direct challenge to popular culture's long-prevailing notions of femininity and sexuality – she irrevocably changed the image of women in music.
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