SHE BOP: The Definitive History of Women in Popular Music
Revised and Updated 25th Anniversary Edition. Englische Originalausgabe/Original English Edition.
Revised and Updated 25th Anniversary Edition. Englische Originalausgabe/Original English Edition.
A memoir from Skin, lead singer of rock band Skunk Anansie.
A pioneering biography re-evaluating the life and legacy of transcendent musician Karen Carpenter.
A pioneering biography re-evaluating the life and legacy of transcendent musician Karen Carpenter.
Fully revised and updated with fresh interviews and a striking new cover to celebrate its 25th anniversary, She Bop is the definitive in-depth study of women in popular music.
Material Girl . . . Immaculate sexpot . . . Superstar . . . Mother . . . Kabbalah enthusiast . . . For three decades she has defied categorization. . . . She remains one of our greatest living pop icons. Here is the groundbreaking biography that finally solves the mystery at the heart of Madonna's chameleonlike existence. Drawing upon scores of candid interviews with producers, musicians, collaborators, lovers, and friends, Lucy O'Brien's Madonna: Like an Icon explores the complex personality and legendary drive that have made Madonna the most famous female pop artist of our time. From her mother's premature death to Madonna's dynamic arrival on the New York club scene, from "Like a Virgin" to Evita and beyond, every stage of this dazzling star's life and career is brilliantly illuminated—the stereotypes deconstructed, the lies exposed, the artist examined, the legend celebrated.
The story of Dusty Springfield from the people who knew her, from her troubled childhood to 60s mod queen and enduring pop music icon.
Madonna Cicconeová je finančně nejúspěšnější zpěvačka všech dob, jedna z největších žijících popových ikon a nejspíš i nejslavnější žena na světě. Autorka vypráví složitý příběh umělkyně, která neustále přicházela s něčím novým a třicet let po vydání prvního singlu stále ovládá první příčky hitparád. Nechybějí detailní analýzy Madonniny hudby ani zajímavé rozhovory s lidmi jejího okolí - hudebníky, producenty, tanečníky a filmovými režiséry. Autorka sleduje Madonninu cestu od nelehkého dětství přes bouřlivá první léta v New Yorku, skandály v 90. letech, kontroverzní knihu ''Sex'' až po jednadvacáté století, v němž se Madonna stává anglickou dámou a řeší skandál s adopcí malawijského chlapce. - anotace z přebalu knihy
Madonna is the biggest female pop star in the world yet there is no serious biography of her, and no biography at all by a woman. Existing books are either gossipy style manuals or rehashes of press cuttings and they all end in 2001 with Madonna's marriage to Guy Ritchie. Yet her story hardly ends there, as evinced by her two record breaking world tours since then...Lucy O'Brien's extensive and well-researched biography will look at Madonna the artist, giving detailed analysis of her music, complete with revealing interviews with musicians and producers. It will focus on her cultural impact and the way she uses cinema, photography, visual art, theatre and dance in her work. It will take an in-depth look at how - and, more to the point, why - Madonna has reinvented herself through her twenties, thirties, forties and will no doubt do so again in her fifties. It will also look at the wider context and include interviews with similarly crusading female artists like Tori Amos, Laurie Anderson, Jeanette Winterson and Tracey Emin.This will be, quite simply, the definitive Madonna biography.