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Madonna: Like an Icon

by Lucy O'Brien

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A career-spanning portrait of Madonna’s reinventions

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A career-spanning portrait of Madonna’s reinventions

Lucy O’Brien’s biography traces Madonna’s life and public career across three decades, connecting formative experiences—including her mother’s early death—with her arrival in New York’s club world and her rise through successive musical and screen eras. Built from interviews with producers, musicians, collaborators, friends, and former lovers, the book examines the tensions between Madonna’s shifting public images and the person presented behind them. Its scope reaches from “Like a Virgin” through Evita and beyond, with attention to ambition, celebrity, sexuality, motherhood, and Kabbalah as elements of an evolving cultural figure.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Fans seeking a detailed Madonna biography
  • Readers interested in pop music history and celebrity culture
  • Those curious about the people and collaborations behind a major pop career

Themes

Pop stardomReinvention and public imageAmbitionCelebrity cultureMusic industry collaborations

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Book overview

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.

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