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    My favorite Sinéad O'Connor album nearly ended her career

    by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times Jul 27, 2023 3 minutes
    Sinead O'Connor in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz in July 1990.

    Everyone in the world knows whose photo Sinéad O'Connor ripped up on "Saturday Night Live" in 1992. Hardly anybody recalls why she was there in the first place.

    The Irish singer and songwriter, whose death at age 56 was announced Wednesday, famously nuked her career that night when she punctuated an a cappella performance of Bob Marley's song "War" by tearing a picture of Pope John Paul II into shreds as an act of protest against the church's sexual abuse of children.

    But what had gotten O'Connor booked on "SNL" that October

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