Madonna

I read it but it wasn't mind blowing. I'm a big Andrew Morton fan so was a little disappointed with this book. Nothing new in this book that I didn't already know from magazine articles. I did enjoy the last chapter about Guy Ritchie but that was it for me.

This is by far the best book ever written about Madonna, Many pages of color and B & W photographs as well as a complete recording discography, which is great for collectos of her music., 256 pages with a complete index, overal a very nice book.

Fiona Apple once sang "everybody wants to be Madonna but no one wants to pay the price". And the price Madonna/Madge PAID - Oh dear! Since her 1981/2 club hit "Everybody" to the very first video "Burning Up" ... no other female singer has been able to eclipse Madonna. Not Britney, Jessica, Pink, Alannis, J.Lo, etc... They have come close but Madonna is the genuine article for which no replica is possible. Madonna is the Patron Saint of Ambition. Nothing less. Her numerous incarnations and transformations keep us getting and intrigued. The teenage Madonna ate the whole Big Apple before becoming the Queen of the Pop World. And she inspired alot of fresh faced girls just out of high school to say YES to their dreams and have the courage of heart to jump on a plane to big cities all around the world, never looking back! When the 17 year old Madonna Ciccone ran off to New York in the summer of 1977 ... a cab driver dropped her off at Times Square, the center of everything. Now she remains in pop culture the epicentre of what it means to be cultural icon. She inspired the Spice Girls (based on various versions of herself), Sex and the City, and many other attempts to be versions of her. Madonna was once called the Gold Standard of Timeless Blonde Ambition. And it's obvious why. The material girl is still strong over 20 years later! She was born under one hell of a lucky star!

This book proved to be a completely worthy read. I could not put it down for one minute and was up the entire night, my nose buried in this book. Andrew Morton is an excellent writer. If you have already read every other book on Madonna out there, you probably don't need to read this one. But I highly recommend it to those who haven't. There's nothing cheap or sensational about the way Morton analyzes Madonna. He doesn't resort to those tactics and the result is a highly fascinating read.

This is good,very good. From the first page to the last it was an incredible journey. Andrew Morton has been called the Prince of Biographies and after this perhaps it is about time he was promoted to King of Biographies. This is as good as it gets. Buy it!

I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the new book by Andrew Morton on Madonna. By the end you feel you have a real understanding of an incredibly complex and determined character, as well as the, perhaps surprising, impression that Madonna has a good few tricks left to spring on the world. As Morton says 'Her journey has only just begun.'