| It was perhaps the most shocking crash and burn in | | | | in 1992, O'Connor tore up a photograph of the Pope on |
| pop music history. With her 1987 debut, The Lion and | | | | Saturday Night Live and declared, "Fight the real |
| the Cobra, 20-year-old Sinead O'Connor staked her | | | | enemy"; the next week she was booed off the stage |
| claim as one of the most powerful voices of her | | | | at a Bob Dylan tribute concert, and her album of |
| generation â a potential that was fully realized | | | | standards, Am I Not Your Girl? (recorded years before |
| three years later when the follow-up, I Do Not Want | | | | Rod Stewart made such things commercially viable), |
| What I Haven't Got, became an international sensation. | | | | disappeared from sight. One of rock's brightest stars |
| But after engaging in some high-profile squabbles with | | | | had become persona non grata overnight. |
| everyone from Frank Sinatra to the Grammy Awards, | | | | |