Lucy O’Brien - Madonna: Like an Icon, Fully Revised and Updated Edition

Unless annotated, all interviews for this book were conducted by the author in the UK and US between 2004 and 2018.

, 2016.

People say I am today: ibid.

My grandparents to do with: Denise Worrell, Madonna: Why Shes Hot, Time, 27 May 1985.

She was facial structure: ibid.

I was considered my father: ibid.

She was my mother: ibid.

I remember get better: ibid.

Sometimes dark beyond: Bill Zehme, Madonna: The Rolling Stone Interview, Rolling Stone, 23 March 1989.

The most frightening moving: John Bowlby, Attachment and Loss, Volume 3, Loss (Pimlico, London, 1998), p. 371.

For five years strangle me: Truth or Dare/In Bed with Madonna film, 1991.

compulsive care-giver: Bowlby, op. cit., p. 368.

I think regulations: Douglas Thompson, Madonna: Queen of the World (John Blake, London, 2001), pp. 1617.

Mother stands martyr: quoted in Luise Eichenbaum and Susie Orbach, Understanding Women (Pelican Books, London, 1985), p. 60.

It promoted Jansenist influence: Richard P. McBrien, Catholicism: Third Edition (Geoffrey Chapman, London, 1994), pp. 63940.

My mother in common: Jeanne Marie Laskas, Immaterial Girl, Harpers & Queen, November 2005.

Until Christ beautiful: Madonna, Madonnas Private Diaries, Vanity Fair, November 1996.

Its a central act the movies: Joseph Chinnici, O.F.M., The Catholic Community at Prayer, 19261976, from James OToole (ed.), Habits of Devotion (Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2004), p. 185.

When a woman second-class citizen: Eichenbaum and Orbach, op. cit., p. 40.

the link need to do: ibid., p. 62.

Im a star: Christopher Ciccone, Oh Brother!, Attitude, July 2006.

I resented Cinderella: Denise Worrell, Madonna: Why Shes Hot, Time, 27 May 1985.

I wouldnt investment: Madonna: The Unauthorized Biography, M.I.A. Video, 1993.

Bitch next phase: ibid.

Madonna not be denied: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Madonna: An Intimate Biography (Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 2001), p. 28.

None of their group: Interviewer not named, Madonna: Virgin Pop, Island magazine, September 1983.

In school sense of myself: Don Shewey, Madonna: The Saint, the Slut, the Sensation, The Advocate, 7 and 21 May 1991.

Look at women tragic: Taraborrelli, op. cit., p. 29.

He was my everything: Worrell, op. cit.

I knew told me: ibid.

I feel a warrior: Mark Bego, Madonna: Blonde Ambition (Cooper Square Press, New York, 2000), p. 45.

It was a punk look attention: Andrew Morton, Madonna (Michael OMara, London, 2001), p. 60.

brilliant thin: Taraborrelli, op. cit., p. 31.

Im sure anorexic: Morton, op. cit., p. 60.

a force human: Naked Ambition, UK Channel 4, December 2000.

I played dancing: ibid.

She embarked friend: Taraborrelli, op. cit., p. 31.

, 2005.

, 2005.

It was not 180 degrees: Deborah Jowitt, Time and the Dancing Image (University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1988), p. 173.

I dont believe people: UK LWT South Bank Show documentary: The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, 1987.

In the nightclub free: Simon Garfield, Looks Good on the Dancefloor, Observer Music Monthly, November 2005.

The dance floor through music: Danny Eccleston, Power Is an Aphrodisiac, Q magazine, June 1998.

didnt get good advice: Morton, op. cit., p. 64.

Stop me!: Taraborrelli, op. cit., p. 35.

Im pissed off from Viv: Helen Reddington, The Lost Women of Rock Music: Women Musicians of the Punk Era (Ashgate Press, London, 2007), p. 144.

Wed be dressed coming or going: Lucy OBrien, She Bop II (Continuum, London and New York, 2002), p. 146.

I got her a job meal she was getting: Naked Ambition, UK Channel 4, December 2000.

The other way compromising: Madonna: The Unauthorized Biography, M.I.A. Video, 1993.

I have been rapid glamorize: Andrew Morton, Madonna (Michael OMara, London, 2001), p. 69.

It was a very heavy story: ibid.

sensual made of light: Naked Ambition, op. cit.

Im a beats in my place: The Truth about Madonnas Men, UK Channel 5, September 2005.

Youre all naked no talent: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Madonna: An Intimate Biography (Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 2001), p. 54.

She had a set working together: Naked Ambition, op. cit.

Some people about you: ibid.

My role models courage: Mick St Michael, Madonna Talking (Omnibus Press, London, 2004), p. 40.

An aggressive groundbreaker: Gillian G. Gaar, Shes a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock and Roll (Blandford Press, London, 1993), p. 107.

I was hugely influenced reference: Cathay Che, Deborah Harry: Platinum Blonde (Andr Deutsch, London, 1999), quoted on cover.

That made a huge clicked there: Naked Ambition, op. cit.

, 2017.

Honest-to-goodness lipgloss: Julie Burchill, Time Out, 23 January 1986.

I saw her straight: Naked Ambition, UK Channel 4, December 2000.

She seemed know yet: ibid.

You can dance excitement: Simon Garfield, Looks Good on the Dancefloor, Observer Music Monthly, November 2005.

We had no money programmers: The Truth about Madonnas Men, UK Channel 5, September 2005.

I think that much: Madonna: The Unauthorized Biography, M.I.A. Video, 1993.

, 2006.

SAMO playing art: ibid.

Jean was arranged marriage: Phoebe Hoban, Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art (Viking Penguin, New York, 2004), p. 163.

Madonna turned everywhere: ibid.

never emotionless: ibid., p. 165.

I told her coupla grand: Phil Sutcliffe, Lucky Star, At Home and In Bed with Madonna, Q Special Edition, 2003, p. 13.

Rika lets do it: Hoban, op. cit., p. 160.

Reggie like them: Barney Hoskyns, Cheek to Cheat, NME, 5 November 1983.

commercial song refrain: Luiz Tatit, Analysing Popular Songs, in David Hesmondhalgh and Keith Negus (eds), Popular Music Studies (Arnold, London, 2002), pp. 3349.

a search melody: ibid.

, 2006.

The music cool!: ibid.

The vibe heartbreak: Peter Shapiro, Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco (Faber & Faber, London, 2005), p. 266.

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So she decided singing a pop song: Sutcliffe, op. cit.

I now know category: Hoskyns, op. cit.

Shes vile everything: The Madness of Boy George, UK Channel 4, 2006.

She was in turned up: Johnny Black, Dancing Queen, Q Special Edition, 2003, p. 14.

God! her: Kathryn Flett, A Box of Madges, Observer, 4 December 2005.

cocking their legs groin: Black, op. cit.

Whereas black music: Hoskyns, op. cit.

Maripol happen: Glenn OBrien, introduction to Maripolarama: Polaroids by Maripol (powerHouse Books, New York, 2005).

Not everyone bringing it back: Howard Johnson, Do You Remember the First Time?, Q Special Edition, 2003, p. 24.

I told her artist: ibid.

She was convinced nuts?: ibid., p. 25.