LADY GAGA: BEHIND THE FAME Reviewed in Orlando Sentinel

Emily Herbert's portrait of a lady is reviewed by music critic Jim Abbott in the Orlando Sentinel: "Lady Gaga: Behind the Fame, a breathless new biography by Emily Herbert ($14.95, The Overlook Press). Just a little more than a year into international stardom, Gaga and her career aren't exactly ripe for analysis. But, hey, analysis is boring. Especially when there are pages devoted to the controversy about whether the singer is a hermaphrodite. She's not, the author concludes. Other passages expound reverently on the singer's sense of style and the attention to detail involved in her image and performances."

Lady Gaga: Behind the Fame, available in paperback, is filled with color photos documenting Gaga from her gogo dancer days to the release of her second album, The Fame Monster, Lady Gaga is an essential source for anyone wanting to get the behind the scenes scoop on this fascinating performer. Both an inspiring story of self-actualization and a comment on today’s celebrity obsessed culture, Gaga’s tale, whether she’s beloved or reviled, is one of pop history in the making.

LADY GAGA: BEHIND THE FAME Featured in Life & Style Weekly

Emily Herbert's new biography Lady Gaga: Behind the Fame is featured in a full-color spread in Life & Style Weekly: "Sex, Drugs and Scandals: Two new books about Lady Gaga blow the door open on all her hidden secrets. Lady Gaga has never been the private type. In fact, there’s little the superstar, born Stefani Germanotta in 1986, wont discuss about herself. But even she may be shocked to see her biggest secrets splashed on the pages of two new tell-alls, Lady Gaga: Behind the Fame and Lady Gaga: Just Dance, both of which just hit stores. The juicy books claim some of Gaga’s darkest experiences included heavy drug use, raunchy sex and a night she partied so hard she thought she would die.

Her dad’s words cut like a knife: It took a long time for Lady Gaga’s father, Joe Germanotta, to get comfortable with his daughter’s edgy act. “I was performing in a leopard G-string and a black tank top,” Gaga recalls, according to Behind the Fame. “He thought I was crazy—that I was doing drugs and didn’t have any concept of reality anymore.” She also says, according to the book, “If someone walks up to me and says, ‘I hate your music, you’re talentless,’ it means nothing. But if my father says it, it means a lot.”

She’s had lesbian affairs: Lady Gaga dates men—but behind closed bedroom doors, she’s also had sex with women. “I have no question in my mind about being bisexual,” she has said, according to Lady Gaga: Behind the Fame. The book speculates that the star had an affair with one of her biggest influences, Lady Starlight. Early in Gaga’s career, according to Behind the Fame, part of the singer’s act involved fondling Lady Starlight onstage. Her skimpy outfits once got her arrested: Before Gaga shot to fame in 2009, her controversial fleshbaring outfits weren’t always appreciated. She was even arrested for revealing too much skin in Chicago."

Emily Herbert's LADY GAGA: BEHIND THE FAME On Sale March 9

In little over a year Lady Gaga has rocketed from struggling as a performer in New York to the glamorous life of a worldwide phenomenon. From her outrageous outfits to elaborate live shows and out-spoken politics, her life is one grand performance. In Lady Gaga: Behind the Fame - on sale March 9 -Emily Herbert goes behind the costumes and the gossip to find out how Stefani Germanotta, the self-confessed “weird-girl” in school transformed herself into the most talked about pop figure of the new decade.

Well-researched and filled with 32 color photos documenting Gaga from her gogo dancer days to the release of her second album, The Fame Monster, Lady Gaga is an essential source for anyone wanting to get the behind the scenes scoop on this fascinating performer. Both an inspiring story of self-actualization and a comment on today’s celebrity obsessed culture, Gaga’s tale, whether she’s beloved or reviled, is one of pop history in the making.

LADY GAGA: BEHIND THE FAME On Sale March 3

The rumors are true: Overlook Press is publishing the first biography of the world’s favorite pop star. Lady Gaga: Behind the Fame, by Emily Herbert, will be published on March 3, 2010.

Carolyn Kellogg of The Los Angeles Times reports on the news for Jacket Copy: "Was it the crazy headgear? The cage-like dresses? The sculptural hairdos? The multiple Grammy Awards?

Something got the attention of the Overlook Press, which has announced it will publish the first (if unauthorized) biography of Lady Gaga. The book "Lady Gaga: Behind the Fame" will tell the story of 23-year-old Stefani Germanotta, Catholic school girl turned go-go dancer.

Due to hit shelves early next month, the book will be 288 pages, 32 of which will be devoted to photos. The news release states that this "inspiring story" will be an "intimate look into the music, fashion, art and life of the first Lady of pop." Don't tell Madonna. Or Beyonce. Or any other contenders for pop's first Lady.

The Overlook Press has published many biographies, focusing on creative types as diverse as William Faulkner, Ewan McGregor, Virginia Wolfe and British singing phenomenon Susan Boyle.

How will its Lady Gaga bio compare?

All I know is I hope it comes in a sparkly, lightning-bolt cage."