If there’s one thing hecklerspray finds funny, then that’s ripping up the photo of a global religious icon on live television. If there’s another thing we find funny, then that’s slating U2 frontman Bono for being the most self-important celebrity of his generation.
And now – in some genius masterstroke – Sinead O’Connor has managed to combine the two.
The eerily-ostrich-like singer/songwriter has revealed how angry she is at Bono’s unbridled "public grief" over the death of pointless old figurehead Pope John Paul II. Bono (CDs), you see, is one of the few people who can count himself among the members of the O’Connor treehouse – in that he has also (many years back) torn up a photo of the pontiff in public.
Bono was seen earlier this year putting "rosary beads on that microphone [stand] the day the Pope died" and waffling on "about how great Catholicism is."
O’Connor (CDs) apparently "wasn’t going to say anything" – presumably happy to stand back and shake her head – until she "saw him kissing the rosary beads that the Pope gave him".
She added that she was "getting a little sick of Bono’s self-importance."
You and us both, Sinead. Although the hair-weaved rock idol has done one helpful thing in recent times. hecklerspray remembers coming across a hopelessly naive Make Poverty History article by Bono which started with the words "If you don’t believe that music can change the world, stop reading now." At which point we did, turning the page to read something intelligent and politically-savvy instead.
Cheers for the warning, pal.
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Sinead Hits Out At Bono – Breaking News
[story by C J Davies]
