If you’re exhausted and depressed by what I’ve just told you about O’Connor’s life post-1992, imagine what it must have been like to live it on repeat. As Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore once observed, it was impossible to name another woman who could generate the kind of publicity O’Connor did over the years without taking her clothes off. But it was never the good kind of publicity, the kind that would have helped her to revive and sustain a musical career on her own terms. Fifteen years after SNL, O’Connor was selling lots of newspapers, but not records.
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