Madonna Ciccone is the highest-earning female singer of all time, one of our greatest living pop icons and possibly the most famous woman in the world. She has reinvented herself time and time again and continues to top the charts. In 2008, unbelievably, she is hitting her 50th birthday. Complete with detailed analysis of Madonna`s music, revealing interviews with her intimate inner circle - her dancers, backing musicians and producers - Lucy O`Brien follows Madonna from her difficult childhood, to those frenetic early years in New York, through the shocks and scandals of the 1990s Sex era, to her twenty-first-century incarnation as English Lady of the Manor, and the controversial Malawian adoption saga. Providing fascinating insight into Madonna`s life, her relationships, and what motivates her as a woman and as an artist, here at last is the definitive biography of one of the biggest stars in the world. Формат издания: 12,5 см х 20 см.