‘How would I like to be remembered? I guess the same as any other woman. As a loving mother and grandmother. I’d like to be the rocking-est granny!’
Ian Brown, lead singer of The Stone Roses, described O’Connor as a “beautiful soul” and that hearing her “sing my songs in the studio in Dublin was magical and a highlight of my musical life”.
O’Connor was sent to a “rehabilitation centre for girls with behavioural problems” aged 14, where she spent 18 months. She was subsequently sent to a boarding school in Waterford, joining a band shortly afterwards. Her second album, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, was released in 1990 and its lead single, Nothing Compares 2 U, was named the number one world single that year by the Billboard Music Awards.
In October 1992 O’Connor tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II when she appeared on Saturday Night Live and told viewers to “fight the real enemy”. “If she’s against the Roman Catholic Church and she has a problem with them, I think she should talk about it,” the American pop star said. “I think you have to do more than denigrate a symbol.”The Dubliner later said of the protest: “I’m not sorry I did it. It was brilliant.”O’Connor, who married four times, was ordained a priest in the Latin Tridentine church, an independent Catholic church not in communion with Rome, in 1999.
She said at the time that medication had helped her find more balance, but “it’s a work in progress”. O’Connor had also voiced support for other young women performers facing intense public scrutiny in recent years, including Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus.
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