Legendary singer Sinead O’Connor has died at the age of 56, leaving behind a legacy of alternative rock that granted her a place in the Hall of Fame, and a string of outspoken comments.
She famously ripped up a picture of Pope John Paul II during an SNL show in 1992, after boycotting the Grammys the previous year and refusing to collect the Best Alternative Album award, accusing the ceremony of being steeped in commercialism.
She was also known for her spat with famous celebrities, like Miley Cyrus and Prince, whom she claimed tried to punch her during a fight at the Purple Rain singer’s house.
She famously ripped up a picture of Pope John Paul II during an SNL show in 1992, after boycotting the Grammys the previous year and refusing to collect the Best Alternative Album award, accusing the ceremony of being steeped in commercialism.
She was also known for her spat with famous celebrities, like Miley Cyrus and Prince, whom she claimed tried to punch her during a fight at the Purple Rain singer’s house.
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00:00 We have confidence in the victory of good over evil.
00:14 Fight the real enemy!
00:19 The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole operates mainly,
00:28 it's concerned mainly with material success rather than people who have told the truth or who have done anything to pass information to people
00:35 or to inspire people or to, you know, just be truthful about anything. You know what I mean?
00:41 Dying to know this, the 20 grand they give away every week and the country broke. Where do you get it?
00:47 Where do we get it? Sponsorship. Sponsorship.
00:51 Why I got involved in the issue of whether or not it's appropriate for 20 year old women to be asked to lick sledgehammers in videos for songs that have no lyrical reference to any such thing in them
01:01 is I would see as an exploitation of somebody who's possibly a little too young to understand the dangers of allowing oneself to be exploited in that way.
01:11 So, did you ever actually meet Prince?
01:13 We did meet once but we didn't get on very well. We tried to beat each other up.
01:17 Really?
01:18 We didn't get on too well.
01:19 It was five o'clock in the morning. We're running around in his car. I'm spitting at him and he's trying to punch me.
01:23 What?
01:24 He's got a chiller that he's trying to hit me with. We're running around his car and I'm spitting across the car at him.
01:28 Well, the word revert, it refers to the idea that if you were to study the Quran, you would realise that you were a Muslim all your life and you didn't realise it.
01:37 It's just waiting to happen to you.
01:38 That's what happened to me.