She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Popular Music (Revised Third Edition)
Lucy O'Brien has been writing about music, feminism, and popular culture since the early 80s. 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 the NME, she has written for a range of titles including the Sunday Times, Marie Claire, the Guardian, Q, and Mojo. Alongside She Bop, she has written acclaimed biographies of Madonna, Dusty Springfield, and Annie Lennox. A regular 'pundit' on TV and radio, she also co-produced the Channel 4 film Righteous Babes on rock and new feminism. She is Senior Lecturer in Music Journalism at Epsom UCA, and is currently working on a memoir that combines music, mysticism, and magic.