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3. SINÉAD RIPS INTO POPE
Lorne Michaels and millions of Catholics were so not pleased when Sinéad O'Connor capped her 1992 SNL appearance by rending a photo of the Pope. Ripping up that picture on live TV was her dramatic way of making a statement about child abuse, she later explained, but by then outraged viewers were more interested in the singer's head on a platter.
CAREER IMPACT: MAJOR Radio stations banned her songs, fans destroyed her albums, she was fiercely booed at a Bob Dylan tribute two weeks later, and she never regained her platinum-selling status. In 2004 she took out a full-page ad in the Irish Examiner pleading with her country-folk to stop making fun of her.
