Lucy O'Brien


	Coming up, I have an interview with Alanis Morissette mid-May in The Guardian. She’s ebullient and forthright as ever, pursuing a new musical direction with an album, Flavors Of Entanglement, that’s her best yet. On 5 July I’m chairing a discussion on Motown and the girl group era at the V&A to mark the Supremes exhibition...and I was interviewed last week by Emily Maitlis for a Radio 4 documentary on Madonna and Barbie. Called Material Girls, it’s about these two cultural icons at 50, and it’s broadcast on 26 July.... Lastly, if you want to access any of my old interviews (from Debbie Harry to Roxanne Shante to Nina Simone), go to www.rocksbackpages.com, one of the biggest music-writing sites on the web. And here’s to a beautiful summer!	Lucy O’Brien has been writing on music, feminism and popular culture, and creating fiction since the early 1980s. She grew up in Southampton, played in all-girl punk band The Catholic Girls, and graduated from Leeds University in 1983. Since starting out on NME, she has written for a range of titles including the Sunday Times, Marie Claire, the Guardian, Q and Mojo. She’s the author of Madonna: Like An Icon, She Bop and She Bop II and biographies of Dusty Springfield and Annie Lennox. A regular ‘pundit’ on TV and radio, she also co-produced the C4 film Righteous Babes on rock and new feminism. She teaches in Media & Communications at London's Goldmith's College and Westminster University, and is currently working on a memoir that combines music, mysticism and magic. Madonna: Like An Icon Publication date: August 2008 At last the book that gets ot the heart of Madonna - the woman and the artist - in more depth and detail than ever before. Coming soon in paperback, it has already been translated into 13 languages. For more information or to pre-order from Amazon click here.