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Published: 15 August 2018
ISBN: 9780552176026
Imprint: Corgi
Format: Paperback
Pages: 592
RRP: $32.99

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Madonna

Like an Icon

Lucy O'Brien

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The definitive biography of one of the world's most famous women.

Madonna is the biggest-selling female recording artist in the world and one of our greatest living pop stars. With each pioneering album she has consistently reinvented her music and her image, transcending the world of pop to become a global cultural icon. In 2018, unbelievably, she is hitting her 60th birthday - yet she still remains as relevant as ever.

Lucy O'Brien's extensive and well-researched biography looks at Madonna the artist, offering a detailed analysis of her music with input from acclaimed musicians and producers, as well revealing interviews from her intimate inner circle. She follows Madonna from her difficult childhood and those frenetic early years in New York, through the shocks and scandals of the 1990s Sex era to her twenty-first-century incarnation as an outspoken activist.

Providing a fascinating insight into her life, relationships and what motivates her as a woman and an artist, Madonna: Like an Icon is the definitive biography of one of the biggest stars in the world.

Published: 15 August 2018
ISBN: 9780552176026
Imprint: Corgi
Format: Paperback
Pages: 592
RRP: $32.99

Categories:

About the author

Lucy O'Brien

Writer and broadcaster Lucy O'Brien is the author of the award-winning She Bop, a definitive history of women in popular music. She has also published bestselling biographies of Dusty Springfield and Annie Lennox. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies including Voicing Girlhoodd in Popular Music: Performance, Authority, Authenticity and Punk Rock, So What? Currently she is Course Leader for Music Journalism and Marketing at the University for the Creative Arts.

Praise for Madonna

Enduring superstar gets the biography she deserves
Mojo

A mighty volume
Mail on Sunday

Madonna remains one of the most fascinating women of our time
Telegraph

O'Brien is a capable and intelligent writer...a refreshing biography of the iconic popstress
Guardian

If Madonna is your Elvis you will devour Lucy O’Brien’s definitive biography; not only can she write properly, but her book is objective, immaculately researched and illuminating.
Irish Examiner

Lucy O’Brien’s measured and comprehensive profile takes a look at [Madonna's] extraordinary life to date, focusing on the cultural impact she’s made.
The Good Book Guide

British rock journalist Lucy O’Brien seeks to go beyond the fastidiously cultivated image and get a glimpse of the woman behind the veil. She uncovers some fascinating, often shocking, nuggets.
Irish Independent

An illuminating study of a complex, iconic woman, covering her life, her relationships and what motivates her as a woman and an artist.
Sainsbury's magazine

With detailed, surgical precision O'Brien bores to the heart of her subject, a heart that is, by turns, cold, impenetrable but forever beating.
Paul Tierney, arts journalist