Lucy O'Brien

Enduring superstar gets the biography she deserves

Madonna remains one of the most fascinating women of our time

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Like an Icon

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.

Lucy O'Brien

Praise for Madonna

Enduring superstar gets the biography she deserves

A mighty volume

Madonna remains one of the most fascinating women of our time

Enduring superstar gets the biography she deserves

A mighty volume

Madonna remains one of the most fascinating women of our time

Enduring superstar gets the biography she deserves

A mighty volume

Madonna remains one of the most fascinating women of our time

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