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From Destiny & Beyond: The Kelly Rowland Story

By: Chloe Govan

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From Destiny & Beyond: The Kelly Rowland Story

By: Chloe Govan

American singer and TV personality Kelly Rowland rose to fame as one of the founding members of the American girl group Destiny's Child. She sold forty million albums and twenty million singles with the group, and more than four million solo albums and eighteen million solo singles. This biography details her childhood strife with an alcoholic – and then absent – father, life on the edge as a teenage R&B star in Destiny’s Child, an ill-fated early solo career and finally finding success on her own, as well as taking centre stage as a judge on X-Factor.

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Omnibus Press

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0857127942

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9780857127945

Rihanna: Rebel Flower

By: Chloe Govan

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Rihanna: Rebel Flower

By: Chloe Govan

Rihanna has sold over 15 million albums and 45 million singles world-wide. She has won 4 Grammy Awards and the 2011 Brit Award for Best International Female Artist. Her 2007 album Good Girl Gone Bad was nominated for nine Grammy Awards and featured the world-wide number one single Umbrella. She is currently on her Last Girl on Earth 2011 World Tour. Reveals her unhappy childhood watching severe violence between her mother and her crack cocaine father. Her wild child past that earned her the nickname of Rebel Flower. How she found it therapeutic after her parents’ troubled marriage to join the army. Her transformation from schoolgirl Robyn Fenty to one of the most successful R&B artists in the world. Her turbulent relationship with singer Chris Brown which resulted in a photograph of her battered and bruised face making headlines all over the world. Exclusive interviews with Rihanna’s old schoolfriends, producers, songwriters, video directors, journalists who witnessed her transformation over the years and many others.

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Omnibus Press

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0857127446

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9780857127440

Miley Cyrus: Good Girl/Bad Girl

By: Chloe Govan

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Miley Cyrus: Good Girl/Bad Girl

By: Chloe Govan

Charting the controversial journey of a shy, chaste child star from America's Deep South: from early fame on the Disney TV series Hannah Montana to her sexually liberated pop image that later made headlines worldwide. Will reveal Miley's secret battle with a genetic heart condition and offer a behind-the-scenes expose of growing up on a farm near Nashville in America's Deep South and her transformation from God fearing farm girl to raunchy pop star. Exclusive interviews with figures from Miley's past, from close childhood friends to those who attended church with her in a quiet and close-knit village-like community and got to know her well. These interviews will help to separate fact from fiction, publicity stunt from personality growth, will explore the psychology behind her dramatic transformations and will ultimately get to the bottom of exactly what makes the multi-faceted Miley Cyrus tick.

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Omnibus Press

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1783231874

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9781783231874

Katy Perry: A Life of Fireworks

By: Chloe Govan

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Katy Perry: A Life of Fireworks

By: Chloe Govan

How Katy made her transformation from demure choir girl to sexy household name.Accounts of the conflict Katy had growing up with a deeply religious minister as a father and her penchant for skimpy attention-grabbing outfits and subversive lyrics. Details the story of her ill-fated early career, including an early gospel album released by a small record company which went bankrupt soon afterwards and another signing to Columbia Records, who she rejected on accounts of attempts to mould her into a manufactured pop artist. Her eventual rise to fame and her controversial first chart-topping single I Kissed A Girl, her bisexual affair and the struggle Katy faced between her sexuality and her religious background. Exclusive stories revealing the making of her albums.Tales of the love affair and marriage to notorious television presenter Russell Brand.Exclusive interviews with Katy’s religious mentors, friends, co-songwriters, producers video directors, journalists, fellow journalists and teachers.ABOUT THE AUTHORChloe Govan has written about travel, lifestyle and music for a variety of publications around the world including Travel Weekly, the Times and Real Travel, where she has a monthly column. Her next book is a biography on Amy Winehouse, due out in the Autumn of 2011.

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Omnibus Press

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0857127276

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9780857127273

Taylor Swift: The Rise Of The Nashville Teen

By: Chloe Govan

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Taylor Swift: The Rise Of The Nashville Teen

By: Chloe Govan

Country pop phenomenon Taylor Swift came from a comfortable Pennsylvania home but set her sights on Nashville early. As a young teenager she won a national poetry competition, wrote her first song and a short novel. Entranced by country music, she and her family finally moved to music city in 2003. At the age of 14 Taylor Swift became the youngest staff songwriter ever hired by Sony/ATV Tree publishing. By 2006 her first single had reached number six in Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart and after that - and three huge-selling albums - there was no stopping her. This insightful book about Taylor Swift's short but extraordinary life to date includes the inside story on the high-profile romances that inspired her songs as well as exclusive, in-depth interviews with her childhood friends and early mentors.

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Omnibus Press

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0857127837

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9780857127839

The Incredible Rise of Mumford & Sons

By: Chloe Govan

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The Incredible Rise of Mumford & Sons

By: Chloe Govan

An in-depth look at how Mumford & Sons rose from the West London folk scene to worldwide emulation. This book details their debut EP Love Your Ground and their performances in small venues in the UK and the US which exposed enthusiastic audiences to their music and built support for an eventual album. Looks at how their debut album Sigh No More scored chart success in multiple countries and the band's numerous awards including two Grammy nominations. Fully chronicles the lives of band members Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, Country Winston Marshall and Ted Dwayne; a must-read for fans new and old. About the Author Chloe Govan is an author, travel writer and music critic. Former contributing editor of Real Travel and regular contributor to numerous national newspapers and magazines, she has also written three other books for Omnibus Press – Rihanna: Rebel Flower, Katy Perry: A Life of Fireworks and Taylor Swift: Her Story.

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Omnibus Press

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0857128574

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9780857128577

Who's Laughing Now? The Story of Jessie J

By: Chloe Govan

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Who's Laughing Now? The Story of Jessie J

By: Chloe Govan

Reveals how Jessie broke away from her background – a tough area of Essex where stabbings and violent crime were rife – to become the antithesis of the typical Essex girl. Tells of her performance background, taking ballet classes from the age of four and appearing in a string of musicals, including one where she fell off the stage and did a back flip onto the conductor. Reveals how she was on national TV winning singing competitions at age 15 and how she recorded a demo the same year, before studying Musical Theatre at the BRIT School Talks of her ill-fated stint in a girl group, dealing with tears, cat fights and mammoth egos. Recalls how she finally earned a record deal only to suffer a stroke and for her label to go into liquidation the same year. Reveals her yearning for fame, including a string of support slots where she appeared as an unknown artist. She was booed – but often booed back. Her trip to America where she penned a Number One single, but was so desperately lonely and unhappy that she felt suicidal – yet she penned a song about this period that would become the title track of her album/ Interviews with record producers, school classmates, friends, dance tutors and more give the full lowdown on Jessie’s road to fame.

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Omnibus Press

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0857127748

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9780857127747

The Dodo Experiment

By: Martin Travers,Chloe Wyper

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The Dodo Experiment

By: Martin Travers,Chloe Wyper

What money?! This ends when you end. This experiment is about the survival of the fittest. Nothing more – nothing less. Imprisoned in an abandoned warehouse, a desperate group of failing actors are trapped in a dark experiment. After months of endlessly rehearsing George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion with no director to guide them, some of the ensemble have disappeared leaving the others paranoid and subservient. Sleep-deprived and half-starved, their fragile social bonds shatter and implode as a stranger breaks in and incites them to rebel. This new dystopian thriller about a group of aspiring actors trapped in a dark social experiment is a collaboration from writers Martin Travers and Chloe Wyper. This edition was published to coincide with the run presented by the Citizens Theatre's WAC Ensemble in April 2022.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350340251

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Kelly Rowland

From Destiny & Beyond

By: Chloe Govan

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Kelly Rowland

From Destiny & Beyond

By: Chloe Govan

American singer and TV personality Kelly Rowland rose to fame as one of the founding members of the American girl group Destiny's Child. This biography details her childhood strife with an alcoholic father, life on the edge as a teenage R & B star in Destiny's Child, an ill-fated early solo career, and much more.

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