soul, London/New York: Continuum, 2002 Madonna: Like an Icon, London: HarperCollins, 2007 (paperback edition 2008) It Takes Bloods and Guts, written with the subject, Skin, Simon & Schuster, 2020 Essay Collections A kiss in the dreamhouse in Aizelwood, John (ed), Love Is The Drug, London: Penguin, 1994 Sisters of swing in Cooper, Sarah (ed), Girls! Girls! Girls!, London: Cassell, 1995 The Year Skunk Broke in Evans, Liz (ed), Girls Will Be Boys: Women Report On Rock, London: Pandora, 1997 The Woman Punk Made Me in Sabin, Roger (ed), Punk Rock; So What?, London/New York: Routledge, 1999 O'Brien was also an interviewee in Helen Reddington's (aka: Helen McCookerybook)book The Lost Women of Music: Female Musicians Of The Punk Era, which was published by Ashgate Publishing in 2007. Footnotes References O'Brien, Lucy – She Bop: The definitive history of women in rock, pop, and soul, London: Penguin, 1995. The following sections were useful: Author Biography (inside cover), Prologue (ppix-xiii), Introduction (p1-7) O'Brien, Lucy A kiss in the dreamhouse, in Aizelwood, John, Love Is The Drug, London: Penguin, 1994, pp86-99 Shackleton, Paula, Author interview: Lucy O'Brien, Bookbuffet.com, 12 December 2007. www.bookbuffet.com Inky Fingers: The NME Story, BBC2, 4 July 2005. O'Brien, Lucy, Rock chicks fight back, The Guardian, 13 September 2003 sourced from online edition (www.guardian.co.uk) Blase, Cazz, Interview with Lucy O'Brien, The F-Word, 16 December 2002 www.thefword.org.uk www.lucyobrien.com Sophy, An interview with Lucy O'Brien, Hardluck.org, interview not dated www.geocities.com/sistayes O'Brien, Lucy, The NME's first female editor, The Guardian, 31 July 2009. Sourced from online edition (www.guardian.co.uk) External links Lucy O'Brien interviewed by Sophy of Sista Yes! fanzine for her site hardluck.org. Interview not dated. Lucy O'Brien interviewed by author Cazz Blase in 2002 Lucy O'Brien reflects on She Bop and She Bop II in The Guardian, 2003 Lucy O'Brien talks to Paula Shackleton at BookBuffet.com about Madonna: Like An Icon, 2007 O'Brien's page at Transworld publishers UK O'Brien's page at Harper Collins publishers USA 1961 births Living people People from Catford British biographers British non-fiction writers The Guardian journalists Celebrity biographers