Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music, and Fame

An intimate, critical look at the lives of female musicians by a famed music journalist, based on new interviews with Beyonc , Lady Gaga, Adele, Bette Midler, Sade, and more

From the effects of fame on family and vice versa to motherhood and drugs, sex, and romance, Lisa Robinson has discussed every taboo topic with nearly every significant living female artist to pass through the pages of Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. Here, her interviews with and observations of fabulous female pop and rock stars, from Tina Turner and Alanis Morrissette to Rihanna, show how these powerhouse women, all with vastly different life experiences, fell in love with music, seized their ambitions, and changed pop culture.

Grouped by topic, ranging from hair and makeup to sexual and emotional abuse, Robinson's interviews reveal each individual artist's sense of humor, private hopes, and personal devastations--along with the grit and fire that brought each woman to the stage in the first place and empowered her to leave her mark on the world.

Lisa Robinson is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where she has produced music issues and profiled many major musicians over the past twenty years. Prior to that, she was a columnist for the New York Times Syndicate, The New York Post, the American editor of England’s New Music Express, and the editor of several rock magazines. Additionally, she has hosted various cable TV and radio shows, and published a memoir, There Goes Gravity, in 2014. She was born in New York City, where she still resides.