Lady Gaga - Born This Way! The Making of an Icon, A Lady Gaga Biography

De: Mandy Hardwick

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Important: If you love Lady Gaga, this book is for you!

Imagine waking up one morning, only to find out Lady Gaga has stopped her career…” Wouldn’t that be a tremendous loss for the music community? If you have not heard a song from Lady Gaga, you probably have been living in a bunker deep underground. Currently, Lady Gaga is one of those rare performers who dares to be completely original in her clothing, music composition, as well as performances. If you have ever wondered what drives her to be this way, it is about time you learn the truth. This comprehensive and in-depth biography examines which influences have made a tremendous impact on Gaga's life as well as on her career. Besides interesting facts, you will learn much more about her bizarre and extravagant way of living. If you are serious about learning about the life of Lady Gaga, as well as interesting facts not published elsewhere, you should read this book. It is a great read for any Lady Gaga fan, as well as for anyone who wants to understand her music and way of life. This book might even create a new interest in you for her music as well as for her involvement in charity. As an added extra, you will be provided with appendices with imperative information about Lady Gaga’s music, videos, and awards. This is the best biography available for the Kindle today! BOOK EXTRACT "How could someone with the stage name Lady Gaga become anything except a household name? Some people just naturally belong on billboards. With Fright wigs, fake blood, and ritualistic performances as suggestively limitless as her name... Lady Gaga reigns, in all of her pulchritudinous splendor, as the Queen of the Obscene...darkening the world with controversial musical interpretations of the grotesque...and it appears that the choir girl from Hell, born to us in March, 1986 as Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, appears to be here to stay. Chapter One: Out of Nowhere In the previous generation, we thought Madonna and Grace Jones parading around stages in negligees, raincoats and army boots was the wild side. Boy George and Cyndi Lauper satisfied our need for strange. But suddenly, all over the world, gothic culture broke out, arresting conservatism and demanding the right to be deranged Alice Cooper drank chicken blood on stage. And for some reason, Ozzy Osborne bit the head off of a bat, and two doves. Graphic tattoos, pythons and tongue piercings had become boring. Out of nowhere, a musical emancipation pronounced darker theories of death and pain that drew many punk rockers and pop culture fans further into the dark. John Lennon was replaced by Marilyn Manson. Gay people and atheists started their own churches. Cocaine escalated to crack. Yuppies applied for food stamps. But by the late 1970s, a culture of black lipstick, blood and men adopting female names grew into its own genre. At the same time, crack cocaine and the World Wide Web had made it through their infancy stages of development. The State of California was easing its bands against marijuana. And by 1979, the Gay Movement was red hot. In October, 1979 close to 75,000 people participated in the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Washington, D.C. Novelist Tom Wolfe labeled the 70s as “The "Me" Decade “ in his article “The ‘Me’ Decade and the Third Great Awakening". It was in this environment that the gothic music genre united punk rockers, heavy metal fans, and even some conservative Rock-n-Rollers in a World Wide Web. The Internet would play a large role in connecting gays, the depressed, the addicted, the heartbroken and the misunderstood internationally, furthering the growth and prominence of Goth. The years of the Goth movement have been placed roughly between 1971 and 1984. During this period, it seemed everybody was in some type of artistic movement. From punk to the new wave Brit Heavy Metal… Psychobilly and the Futuristic movement… the earliest Goth bands can....."