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Books : Music, Stage & Screen : Music : Composers & Musicians : Rock & Other Styles : Madonna
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Madonna up close, by the brother who knows her better than anyone.
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Madonna is the biggest female pop star in the world. This biography takes a look at Madonna the artist, giving detailed analysis of her music, complete with interviews with musicians and producers. It focuses on her cultural impact and the way she uses cinema, photography, visual art, theatre and dance in her work.
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Sex, thighs and videotapes; all this and much more can be found in Debbi Voller's Madonna: The Style Book, which takes us from the boyish Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone of 1978 to the mother of Lourdes, twenty years later. Proudly advertising itself as an unofficial and unauthorised account of Madonna, Voller's book is glamorous and gushing. It breaks the diva and her myth down into digestible sections--The Look, Sex and Religion, Fame and Power, Into the Nineties, Evita, and Earth Mother-- imaginatively peppered with sound bites on Madonna from the likes of Martin Amis, Julie Burchill and Vogue.The book treads a wonderfully gossipy line between bitchiness--"Madonna seemed to have a weight problem when she first emerged in the New York discos"--and adulation--"Once again, Madonna had become an inspiring role model for women". The sections on how to achieve that 'Madonna Night-and-Day Look' were particularly funny (apparently you need to be blonde for the evening and brunette for the day), but Voller is good on following the twists and turns in Madonna's look as well as her views. For a glitzy book on a glamorous rock star, this is pretty good.
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Given the Queen of Pop's enduring popularity, it's surprising that Madonna: An Intimate Portrait is the first real and even half-credible attempt at a full-length examination of her life and work. Author J Randy Taraborrelli's previous subjects have included Frank Sinatra and Cher but it's obvious that Madonna has a special place in the author's heart, thanks to his balanced and well thought-out examination. Though little more than an extended tabloid tale, the book, to its credit, is a fairly comprehensive account of Madonna's career and takes us behind the scenes of her personal life like no other book has done so far. Of course, a good deal of what is presented here is far from new or exclusive, just rehashed in a more entertaining tabloid style.The fights, the men, the marriages and the music; it's all here though how much you believe and how much you take with a rather generous helping of salt is entirely up to you. Irritatingly, conversations the author has never been privy to are often presented as virtually verbatim and dubious "friends" are anonymously quoted, but this all adds to its sensational gossip-column style. It's a pacy read and Taraborrelli has a keen eye for what makes a juicy anecdote; particularly amusing was Sean Penn allegedly punching a hole in the apartment wall after he and Madonna had an argument about her past relationship with the pop star
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Madonna up close, by the brother who knows her better than anyone.
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Given the Queen of Pop's enduring popularity, it's surprising that Madonna: An Intimate Portrait is the first real and even half-credible attempt at a full-length examination of her life and work. Author J Randy Taraborrelli's previous subjects have included Frank Sinatra and Cher but it's obvious that Madonna has a special place in the author's heart, thanks to his balanced and well thought-out examination. Though little more than an extended tabloid tale, the book, to its credit, is a fairly comprehensive account of Madonna's career and takes us behind the scenes of her personal life like no other book has done so far. Of course, a good deal of what is presented here is far from new or exclusive, just rehashed in a more entertaining tabloid style.The fights, the men, the marriages and the music; it's all here though how much you believe and how much you take with a rather generous helping of salt is entirely up to you. Irritatingly, conversations the author has never been privy to are often presented as virtually verbatim and dubious "friends" are anonymously quoted, but this all adds to its sensational gossip-column style. It's a pacy read and Taraborrelli has a keen eye for what makes a juicy anecdote; particularly amusing was Sean Penn allegedly punching a hole in the apartment wall after he and Madonna had an argument about her past relationship with the pop star