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O'Connor tearing up a picture of Pope John Paul II on live television in 1992 On 3 October 1992, the Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor appeared as a musical guest on the American television programme Saturday Night Live (SNL) and staged a protest against the Catholic Church. While performing a rendition of Bob Marley's 1976 song "War", she held a photograph of Pope John Paul II up to ...
On Oct. 3, 1992, Sinéad O'Connor, stood center stage in Studio 8H, the longtime home of Saturday Night Live, singing a haunting a capella rendition of Bob Marley's classic protest song "War."As ...
During a now-infamous appearance as Saturday Night Live‘s musical guest in October 1992, O’Connor left viewers stunned when she held up a photo of Pope John Paul II and ripped it into pieces ...
Sinéad O'Connor. For the fictional character from Hollyoaks, see Sinead O'Connor ( Hollyoaks). Shuhada' Sadaqat[ a] (born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor / ʃɪˈneɪd / shin-AYD; 8 December 1966 – 26 July 2023) was an Irish singer, songwriter, and activist. [ 8] Her debut studio album, The Lion and the Cobra, was released in 1987 and ...
Sinéad O’Connor spoke to TODAY's Carson Daly about the moment in 1992 when she tore a photo of Pope John Paul II on "Saturday Night Live." Sinéad O’Connor explains how her shocking ‘SNL ...
On 3 October 1992, O'Connor appeared on Saturday Night Live as a musical guest, and sang the album's lead single, "Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home".She was then scheduled to sing "Scarlet Ribbons" from the album, but the day before the appearance she changed to "War", a Bob Marley song which she intended as a protest against sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church, referring to ...
Sinéad O'Connor performs "Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home" and the Bob Marley song "War".[12] [14]After four minutes of a capella during Sinéad O'Connor's second song, "War", she exclaims "child abuse" several times and then holds up a picture of Pope John Paul II, and says, "Fight the real enemy," tearing the picture to pieces.
Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American sketch comedy series that was co-created by Dick Ebersol and Lorne Michaels, with Michaels also serving as the producer. [1] The series premiered on the American broadcast television network NBC on October 11, 1975.