About the Author

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.