Lady Gaga: Behind the Fame

I have enjoyed this book about LADY GAGA... It chronicles her life from a child to last year... Her life story up to thie point is quite interesting( to me anyway). I am a huge music fan. I love to read about singers, and artists. I definitly recommend this book. It also has some great pics of her in it as well...thankshave a great one....Suzi

Purchased this as a suprise "special" gift for my girlfriend this past Christmas. She went 'Gaga' over it. She loves all of the music, its all of her favorite songs in one book, and now she can play them on her piano whenever she wants. Great songbook!

I'm a relatively new Gaga fan after seeing her most recent concert (Monster's Ball) and loving her albums, so I picked up this book wanting to know more about her. I'm most of the way through the book, and have mixed feelings about it.On the positive side, it does have quite a bit of information, but none of it is very "original". The author doesn't seem to have interviewed Lady Gaga for this book, and most of the research seems to have been through a review of her interviews. But still, there is plenty of good info here.On the bad side, the writing is kind of a mess, and at times can be a frustrating read. It is not strictly chronological, and kind of wanders all over the map, One moment it will be talking about some early phase of Gaga's career, then the next it will be talking about the careers of one of her collaborators, and the next it will be talking about Lady Gaga's latest album etc. It's just all over the map. It's like listening to a story told by someone with an extremely short attention span, and is very scatter-brained.Do I recommend the book to Gaga fans? I suppose, until I find something better anyway. But someday Lady Gaga will (hopefully) collaborate with a better writer, and this thing will get done right. Until that day, I guess we are stuck with this book.Oh, and one reviewer commented about the book being filled with high quality photos. I think that is pretty misleading. The book is actually 250+ pages long, and there a couple dozen pages with photos. Nobody will confuse this for a picture book.

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Despite having sold millions of records and becoming a household name through her own will and creativity, the fact is, Lady Gaga is still a relatively "new" celebrity, so I was somewhat skeptical about how informative (or necessary) a full-on biography could be at this point in her career. But intrigued as I am by her and her music, I picked it up with an open mind in hopes of learning more about the woman herself, getting behind the mystique she so carefully veils herself in publicly. Heavy with quotes and page after page of gorgeous color photographs, this is a great reference tool for fans. However, in the end I don't feel like I necessarily learned anything new or came any closer to understanding the "meaning of Gaga," so to speak.That's not to say it wasn't entertaining or well-researched, because it obviously was, but I felt like the author never fully broke through the wall that separates the reader from the subject matter. Lady Gaga's (aka Stefani Germanotta) privileged upbringing is glossed over in a matter of pages, and for as much as she mentions heartbreak and the love-vs-fame theme, no further details are given about her personal/love life. I guess I was just most interested in seeing the transformation from Catholic school girl to pop exhibitionist, but that connection was never clearly made. It's almost as if this girl fell right out of the womb as the Lady Gaga persona we know today. Then again, I get the feeling that's how she wants to be perceived. It's just too bad the author couldn't add a new spin on it to make her somewhat relatable. Humanized may be a better word. On the other hand, I can appreciate the attention that was paid to the music itself, which can easily be overlooked when writing about such an eccentric personality, so it does work as a really good resource in that respect. Plus it does paint a good picture of her dynamics within the music industry and the song-writing process.Mixed feelings aside, was it worth a read? Yes. The pictures alone are worth the price, lol, and it was fairly well-written with a heaping of interview material from the Lady herself. But I think we need to wait a few more years before we get anything real substantial as far as life stories go. Meanwhile we can sit here all day and discuss whether or not Lady Gaga truly is the loner workaholic who revels in the avant-garde, or just another pretentious, gimmicky pop tart, because this book sure doesn't help in deciding one way or the other. She's just as much of an enigma by the last page as she is on the first. Like I said, I suspect that's the whole point. Nevertheless I'll give it the benefit of the doubt with 4 stars because it is the most comprehensive Lady Gaga book to appear on the market so far.

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I have read this, and another book on Lady Gaga, Maureen Callahan's Poker Face.Even though I am over 50 years old, I am a huge fan, have attended one Monster Ball concert, and have tickets for an upcoming concert.90% of the material in this book could have been, and probably was, compiled from watching YouTube videos of Gaga's interviews. The author spoke, as far as I could tell, to only a couple of people who know Gaga. I already knew 90%+ of the information contained in this book, simply by watching the same YouTube videos, for free. And not only was almost no research done on this book, it is not well written. The author is clearly a fan, which is fine, but nothing the least bit negative or even odd about our Mother Monster come out in this volume. I learned almost nothing about Gaga from this book.In short, buying this book is a waste of money, and reading it is a waste of time.By comparison, Poker Face, the Rise and Rise of Lady Gaga by Maureen Callahan is a masterpiece. It is well researched and well written. It contains a lot of information from people who know Gaga, people from her school and college, her early bands, people who know her habits, her incredible work schedule and ethic, her skill at marketing herself, and her quirks and habits.

I loved it and a good sized book . I really recommend

loved it!!!