Perspective: Her voice was strong enough to stop time. Many wanted it silenced, Chris Richards writes.
at 56 was announced Wednesday — remains most widely remembered for appearing on “Saturday Night Live” in 1992, singing Bob Marley’s “War,” then ripping a photograph of Pope John Paul II into eight little pieces. “Fight the real enemy,” O’Connor said into the camera, urging others to join her protest of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Then she tossed the photo scraps into the void.
Her prolonged public punishment began immediately. Frank Sinatra famously responded by calling O’Connor “one stupid broad.” At a tribute concert in his honor, Bob Dylan watched with indifference while O’Connor sang through jeers. The rest of the music business — along with its most unthinking listenership — showed how vindictive it could become when someone speaks truth to power on live television. Like that, O’Connor’s mainstream pop career was over. And the punk within sighed with relief.
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