Lady Gaga has sold 23 million albums and 64 million singles worldwide and won 5 Grammy Awards. Her third studio album ARTPOP will be released in the Spring.
As an adoring fan of Freddie Mercury and David Bowie, she took the essence of 80s glam and reinvented it for the digital age. Commercially successful and critically accepted she shot from obscurity on Manhattan's Lower East Side club scene to worldwide fame in just a couple of years.
An updated edition of this bestselling biography that features details of her second album Born This Way and her subsequent tour as well as the release of her long-awaited third album in spring 2013, ARTPOP.
Includes her numerous controversies such as that meat dress, her many collaborations with everyone from Elton John to Cher and Tony Bennett, and her movie acting debut in Machete Kills in early 2013.
This is the story of her high-speed rise in the fame game, told with a mix of admiration and sharp journalistic insight.