“'Fight the real enemy,' she said, to shocked silence from the crowd, as she tore the photograph of the Pope into halves and then quarters. It would be the decisive moment of her career.'
“THERE WAS AN incident on the show last week. Sinéad O’Connor tore up a picture of the Pope, and I thought that was wrong.”
It had been an unforgettable rendition of the song even before O’Connor produced and destroyed the photograph. She sang without accompaniment, and infused her own lyrics, naming child abuse among Marley’s original themes of racism and conflict. The unlikely ringleader of this vitriol was the host of the next week’s Saturday Night Live, actor Joe Pesci, who spent his entire opening monologue making angry and violent remarks about O’Connor.
“She’s just a kid, why should I care?” Pesci concluded. You can still watch Pesci’s monologue on the official Saturday Night Live YouTube channel, but it’s pretty unpleasant viewing.Just days later, O’Connor would be booed off stage when performing at a tribute to Bob Dylan concert at Madison Square Garden. The absurd irony of O’Connor being heckled for singing a protest song during a tribute to Bob Dylan brings little comfort.
It is for that reason that O’Connor’s ‘War’ performance is thought of as the defining moment of career — the moment her career came off the rails. O’Connor herself agreed that it was the defining moment of her career, but she saw it as the moment that she established exactly who she wanted to be.
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