Lucy O'Brien is a writer, academic, and broadcaster. She is the co-writer of It Takes Blood And Guts, the memoir by Skin, the lead singer of rock band Skunk Anansie, and is also the author of Dusty: The Classic Biography, Annie Lennox, and Madonna: Like An Icon, which has been translated into 13 languages. She has contributed to Q, Mojo, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and The Quietus, and numerous anthologies, such as Mute Records: Artists, Business, History (2018) and Voicing Girlhood In Popular Music: Performance, Authority, Authenticity (2016). She played in all-girl band The Catholic Girls, and is currently working on a memoir about punk and feminism.