“My intention had always been to destroy my mother’s photo of the pope,” she wrote in her memoir. “It represented lies and liars and abuse. The type of people who kept these things were devils like my mother.”“She is a pistol,” Geldof told the crowd, as he reminisced about O’Connor.
“I had to do a thing with ‘The New York Times’ about her, two years ago, and I tried to tell her about Maud Gonne, Yeats’ great muse, love object, revolutionary woman — years ahead of her time — who told the truth, who was a great artist and who was a radical and an activist at the same time,” said Geldof.
“And it’s not a good comparison, but I said the sense I have is that Sinéad is the Maud Gonne of our time, and probably just as important in modern Ireland. She was relentless, she had a voice like none of us had ever heard, so pure.” He recontextualized O’Connor’s “SNL” Pope photo controversy because he said he believed it was inspired by him tearing up a photo of John Travolta.
“It was a little more extreme than tearing up f**king disco,” he said. “Tearing up the Vatican is a whole other thing, but more correct actually, I should have done it…we were just speechless on how beautiful, how brilliant she was.”
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