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Lucy O'Brien (born 13 September 1961 in west Catford, London; grew up in Southampton, and now living in London)〔Author Biography, O'Brien, Lucy – She Bop: The definitive history of women in rock, pop, and soul, London: Penguin, 1995〕 is an author and journalist whose work focuses on women in music. ==Early musical and writing career== In 1979, whilst attending a convent school in Southampton, she formed a punk band aptly named "the Catholic Girls".〔O'Brien, Lucy, ''A kiss in the dreamhouse'', in Aizelwood, John, Love Is The Drug, London: Penguin, 1994, pp86-91〕 She left the band in 1980 to attend University in Leeds, and The Catholic Girls continued for a while under the name Almost Cruelty before splitting up.〔O'Brien, Lucy – ''Prologue'' in She Bop: The definitive history of women in rock, pop, and soul, London: Penguin, 1995, pxii〕 At university she played with a number of bands before giving up performing to write instead.〔O'Brien, Lucy, ''Prologue'' in She Bop: The definitive history of women in rock, pop, and soul, London: Penguin, 1995, pxiii〕 She became music editor of the University of Leeds magazine, ''Leeds Student'',〔Shackleton, Paula (2005) Author Interview Podcast () BookBuffet.com〕 and after graduating in 1983, she submitted gig articles to the music paper the ''New Musical Express'' (''NME''), which then published Charles Shaar Murray and Nick Kent. She has since written about the "intimidating" office culture at ''NME'' in the eighties, and the extent to which female music journalists were ostracised and not taken seriously by the paper.〔http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jul/31/nme-first-female-editor〕 Her best-known contribution to the paper may be the notorious "Youth Suicide" cover article.〔Inky Fingers: The NME Story, BBC2, 4 July 2005〕 Forming an alliance with fellow soul and socialism heads Stuart Cosgrove and Paolo Hewitt, O'Brien became part of a leftist faction at ''NME'' which was eventually discharged by incoming editor Alan Lewis – an IPC troubleshooter instructed to de-politicise the magazine and boost sales.〔 During her early years at ''NME'', O'Brien also wrote for the feminist magazine, ''Spare Rib'', whose offices she had first visited in 1980.〔O',Brien, Lucy, ''A Kiss in the Dreamhouse'', in Aizlewood, John, Love Is The Drug, London: Penguin, 1994, pp86-91〕 In 1984 she co-wrote a cover story for them about women in the music industry. She was shocked to discover just how few women had record deals or were in the charts compared to men〔O'Brien, Lucy, ''Introduction'' in She Bop: The definitive history of women in rock, pop, and soul, London: Penguin, 1995, p2〕 and this discovery would inspire her later work, particularly ''She Bop''. After leaving ''NME'', O'Brien worked as Music Editor at the London listings magazine ''City Limits''.〔O'Brien, ''A Kiss in the Dreamhouse'', in Aizlewood, John, Love Is The Drug, London: Penguin, 1994, p96〕 It was here that she interviewed Dusty Springfield, an interview which led to her being contacted by the publishers Sidgwick & Jackson, and to her being offered the chance to write Springfield's biography. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lucy O'Brien」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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