Not just 20 years of great hair!
Always covering and investigating the latest Madonna related happenings, to give its readers and exclusive and insight look, MadonnaTribe
has met this time author Lucy O’Brien, who has just released her Madonna biography called Like An Icon.
While we will be presenting our full chat with Lucy sometime this coming week, here’s an exclusive preview from this engaging interview.
MadonnaTribe: Lucy, how do you think your Madonna biography is different from the others that have reached bookstores in the last ten years?
Lucy O’ Brien: I feel that previous biographies have concentrated
on her sex life, image and relationships at the
expense of her work. As producer Guy Sigsworth said to
me, “It’s not just 20 years of great hair.” I wanted
to explore her music and live shows with a depth and
detail that had never been done before. People have
consistently underestimated her talents as a musician
and songwriter. With the generous, candid
contributions of many people who’ve known her, I
wanted to build up a clear picture of her as an artist
and as a woman.
MadonnaTribe:
What is the main aspect of Madonna that you wanted
people to see
through your book
Lucy O’Brien: A furiously creative person, who’s full of ideas.
She’s often represented as a single-minded
businesswoman, but I also wanted to show a side
that’s rarely talked about – how she can be quirky,
childlike and sweet.
MadonnaTribe: Finding a name for a Madonna book/biography must be
hard. It shouldn’t
be to obvious nor too complicate. You named your
book, “Madonna: Like
An Icon”.
How did you come up with that?
Lucy O’Brien: I was batting around ideas with my husband
(musician/composer Malcolm Boyle). In the book I
wanted to explore her impact as an icon, but without
getting too earnest about it – and he came up with
‘Like An Icon’, a tongue-in-cheek reference to ‘Like a
Prayer/Virgin’ etc.
Stay tuned this coming week for another “MadonnaTribe First”, the full “MadonnaTribe meets Lucy O’Brien” interview
“Madonna_Like An Icon” is from Bantam in the U.K. (432 pages, 18.99 pounds). It will be published by HarperEntertainment in the U.S. in October 2007 ($24.95).