![]() ![]() (She won one award, for Best Alternative Music Performance, for her album “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got,” which contained her smash-hit Prince cover “Nothing Compares 2 U.”) A year prior to that, as O’Connor explains in her 2021 memoir, “Rememberings,” before a concert in New Jersey, O’Connor was asked if she wanted the U.S. Even before O’Connor tore up a picture of the Pope on “Saturday Night Live,” in 1992, to protest sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, which prompted a group to run over her CDs with steamrollers, she’d received criticism for boycotting the Grammys, in 1991, after earning four nominations. The Irish musician Sinéad O’Connor died, on Wednesday, at the age of fifty-six, without having received adequate apologies from this society we inhabit, which is often fuelled by an obsession with doling out gleeful, prolonged punishment. ![]()
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