Kris Kristofferson comforts Sinead O’Connor after she was booed off stage during the Bob Dylan 30th anniversary concert at New York Madison Square Garden, on Oct. 17, 1992. The performance was O’Connor’s first live event since she ripped up a picture of Pope John Paul II during a performance on Saturday Night Live.
Kristofferson, who had introduced O’Connor as an “artist whose name has become synonymous with courage and integrity,” was asked to get her off the stage but did the opposite.
“I was not about to do that,” said Kristofferson in 2010 on the Irish television show Saturday Night with Miriam. “I went out and I said ‘Don’t let the bastards get you down,’ and she said ‘I’m not down,’ and she sang.
It was very courageous. It just seemed to me wrong, booing that little girl out there, but she’s always had courage.”
Kris Kristofferson subsequently released a song dedicated to O’Connor titled “Sister Sinead.”
The multitalented entertainer, who was a country singer-songwriter and actor, died Saturday at his Maui, Hawaii home, his rep told People. The artist “peacefully” passed away surrounded by his family
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