Lucy O'Brien

Lucy O'Brien has been researching material on Madonna since the artist arrived on the scene in the 1980s. An acclaimed bestselling music critic and academic, with a twenty-year career in journalism, O'Brien has contributed to a wide range of publications, including the London Sunday Times, Marie Claire, the Guardian, Cosmopolitan, and Q. She is also the author of She Bop and She Bop II and biographies of Dusty Springfield and Annie Lennox. O'Brien has appeared as a guest on many radio and TV programs in the U.K., has co-produced the C4 film Righteous Babes on rock and new feminism, and teaches both writing and publishing and popular music theory at London's Goldmiths College and Westminster University.