High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lady Gaga: Queen of Pop is a biography of American recording artist Lady Gaga, written by Emily Herbert (pen name for Virginia Blackburn) and published in the United Kingdom by John Blake Publishing Ltd. It was published by Overlook Press in the United States, with the title Lady Gaga: Behind the Fame. Additional versions under the Lady Gaga: Queen of Pop title were published in 2010 by Wilkinson Publishing of Melbourne, Victoria, and by Gardners Books in the United Kingdom. The book discusses Gaga`s early life when she was known as Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta. It begins with her birth in 1986, and chronicles her education and travails leading up to her first experience with fame. The author covers her time at Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York, her early quests to nightclubs with her mother to perform at open-mic events, and her brief foray into the Tisch School of the Arts. Germanotta took on the name "Lady Gaga" from the song by the rock group Queen called "Radio Ga Ga"; she released her first album The Fame in 2008. Lady Gaga describes the musician`s success in the industry, noting her business collaborations and appearance on the cover of Rolling Stone in 2009.