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provenance 's review for:
Madonna: A Rebel Life
by Mary Gabriel
This really between two and three stars for me but I wasn't feel that generous so there.
It's always hard to write a biography when you don't have cooperation or free access to the subject (or the subject's friends and family) so you end relying on lots of third party sources and/or prior biographies- I get that. But Gabriel also spent so much time providing context for each time period that I felt that it was perhaps cover up for the fact that her text though voluminous was missing so much.
Also when describing an album release party in September 2000 mentioned that "Divine posed for pictures outside" - not sure what editor missed that gem. Divine passed away in 1988- so it was not them.
It's always hard to write a biography when you don't have cooperation or free access to the subject (or the subject's friends and family) so you end relying on lots of third party sources and/or prior biographies- I get that. But Gabriel also spent so much time providing context for each time period that I felt that it was perhaps cover up for the fact that her text though voluminous was missing so much.
Also when describing an album release party in September 2000 mentioned that "Divine posed for pictures outside" - not sure what editor missed that gem. Divine passed away in 1988- so it was not them.