Madonna

Ciccone's extraordinary memoir is based on his 47 years of growing up with, working with, and understanding one of the most famous and controversial woman of our time.

Madonna has shown herself during the years in new, different and provocative ways. She's the master of creating new styles and shining in different ways. If you have to describe her in just few words would be: Megastar. Lover. Mother. Opportunist. Chameleon. Role model. However, the common theme and strategy in her appearances is sex. That's the main drive she uses to get attention in the music industry. Madonna believes that everything in the world is centred around sex in one form or another and that's what she does with her music. Throughout her life, Madonna was not always rich and famous. In fact, in some interviews she shared how she was homeless, searching through trash cans for food and sleeping on other people's couches. No matter how bad her life was, she worked hard on her music every day. The message Madonna is trying convey with her music is that you can be sexy and successful at the same time, and instead of being punished, you can be rewarded for it. In this biography, you'll learn more about Madonna's personal and professional life. How she handled relationships? How she got involved in the music industry? How Madonna was able to get acting auditions and become extremely successful? The truth is, nobody does better what she can do. There are are a lot of controversies related to religion, sex in her work. A lot of people got offended and angry at Madonna for pushing and creating different status quo, questioning norms, certain aspects of religions, and more. In this biography, we'll also discuss some of those controversies into some detail and how they shaped the music industry. You'll also learn how Madonna changed as a person over the years and it what way this affected her music, genre and appearances. Are you ready to get into the Madonna's realm of seduction, mystery and sex? Grab your copy now!

Christopher Ciccone's extraordinary memoir is based on his forty-seven years of growing up with, working with and understanding the most famous woman of our time who has intrigued, scandalized and entertained millions for half a century. Through most of the iconic star's kaleidoscopic career, Christopher played an important role in her life: as her back-up dancer, her personal assistant, her dresser, her decorator, her art director, her tour director. If you think you knew everything there is to know about Madonna, your are wrong. Only Christopher can tell the full-scale, riveting untold story behind Madonna's carefully constructed mythology, and the real woman behind the glittering façade. From their shared Michigan childhood, which Madonna transcended, then whisked Christopher to Manhattan with her in the early eighties, where he slept on her roach-infested floor and danced with her in clubs all over town - Christopher was with her every step of the way, experiencing her first-hand in all her incarnations. The spoiled daddy's girl, the punk drummer, the raunchy Boy Toy, Material Girl, Mrs. Sean Penn, Warren Beatty's glamorous Hollywood paramour, loving mother, Mrs. Guy Ritchie, English grande dame - Christopher witnessed and understood all of them, as his own life was inexorably entwined with that of his chameleon sister. He tangled with a cast of characters from artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, to Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Moss, Demi Moore and, of course, Guy Ritchie, whose advent in Madonna's life splintered the loving relationship Christopher once had with her. The mirror image of his legendary sister, with his acid Ciccone tongue, Christopher pulls no punches as he tells his astonishing story. Life with My Sister Madonnais the juicy, can't-put-it-down story you've always wanted to hear, as told by Madonna's younger brother.

Madonna has long been accepted as a pop culture icon, but this text postulates a greater cultural importance by analyzing her as a postmodern myth. This work examines how Madonna methodically discovered and constructed herself (often rewriting her past), the nature and extent of her ambition and the means she used to reach her goals. It also details the way in which she organized her own cult (borrowing from the gay community), devised her artistic output, and cunningly targeted different audiences. It also studies the fundamental contradiction--virgin or vamp? saint or prostitute?--that fuels Madonna's career and describes how Madonna reflects today's society, its contradictions and its attitudes toward sexuality and religion.

From motherless child to wife and mother, from "boy toy" to fiercely independent diva, Madonna is one of the most remarkable women of our time.