TY - BOOK AU - O'Brien,Lucy TI - MADONNA : Like an Icon SN - 9780552176026 U1 - 927.8242166 PY - 2018////01/01 CY - London PB - Penguin KW - Biography KW - of Artists KW - Madonna, 1958- KW - Singers -- United States -- Biography KW - ART, MUSIC & PHOTOGRAPHY / BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR KW - Women singers -- United States -- Biography N1 - 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. ; ontents: The death of Madonna -- A magical place -- The arrogance and the nerve! -- Jam hot -- Sick and peverted -- How I stopped worrying and learned to love Madonna -- Make-up in that great Hollywood way -- Me In the picture -- The sin is within you -- Giving good face -- Fallen angel -- I only shoot what I need -- Bits and zeros and ones -- Hard-working and hard-laughing -- Mommy pop star -- American wife -- ABBA on drugs -- Coming from God ER -