Lady Gaga: Queen of Pop is a biography of American recording artist Lady Gaga, written by Emily Herbert (pen name for Virginia Blackburn) and published in the United Kingdom by John Blake Publishing Ltd. It was published by Overlook Press in the United States, with the title Lady Gaga: Behind the Fame. Additional versions under the Lady Gaga: Queen of Pop title were published in 2010 by Wilkinson Publishing of Melbourne, Victoria, and by Gardners Books in the United Kingdom. The book discusses Gaga's early life when she was known as Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta. It begins with her birth in 1986, and chronicles her education and travails leading up to her first experience with fame. The author covers her time at Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York, her early quests to nightclubs with her mother to perform at open-mic events, and her brief foray into the Tisch School of the Arts. Germanotta took on the name "Lady Gaga" from the song by the rock group Queen called "Radio Ga Ga"; she released her first album The Fame in 2008. Lady Gaga describes the musician's success in the industry, noting her business collaborations and appearance on the cover of Rolling Stone in 2009.
Lady Gaga received a mixed reception, and was described positively by a reviewer for the Orlando Sentinel. A review for the Herald Sun criticized the book's style of commentary and its chronological organization style. A book critic for the St. Petersburg TimesPhoenix New Times published a review of the book which characterized its style as tending towards a positive tone, and compared it to a Wikipedia entry. A reviewer for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune criticized the book for being predictable in nature. Ms. MagazineLas Vegas Review-Journal, a reviewer of Lady Gaga noted that the book utilized multiple references, and presented a detailed biography of the musician. commented in appreciation of the photos of the musician displayed in the book. The published a review which noted that the book describes the musician's business acumen and motivation to maintain control of her image.