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Split Personality: Pink
An updated edition of the bestselling biography to include details of her sixth studio album The Truth About Love which was a worldwide number one hit and the birth of her first child in 2011. Paul Lester traces the extraordinary career of Alicia Beth Moore from Pennsylvania through her stint in the girl group Choice to her present incarnation as global superstar Pink. Split Personality reveals the two sides of this complex artist: the feisty fun-filled performer who at thirty continues to conquer in a teen-dominated industry and the conflicted woman whose dark urges have fuelled her deceptively upbeat glossy brand of hi-tech pop. This is a pop biography that makes for a truly exciting read that's worthy of it's electrifying subject!
200 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 11, 2009
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August 29, 2022
I am a huge P!nk fan and have been since her beginnings. I was looking forward to reading more about her and while this book provide some of that content it was more about statistical information on her songs and her hits/misses.
There was tons of info I didnt know but nothing much on her personally that couldn't be found in magazines.
This book was more of a combination of stats and magazine headlines over the years not much more than that. I was a little disappointed.
There was tons of info I didnt know but nothing much on her personally that couldn't be found in magazines.
This book was more of a combination of stats and magazine headlines over the years not much more than that. I was a little disappointed.
July 17, 2019
Ik kocht dit boek tegelijk met het nieuwe album van Pink: Hurts 2B human. Omdat ik binnenkort naar een concert van haar ga, leek het mij leuk om dit boek te lezen. Helaas viel het tegen. Je komt weinig nieuws over de zangeres te weten. In het boek staan wel uitspraken van de zangeres, maar dat zijn quotes uit eerdere interviews. Het boek bestaat grotendeels uit een opsomming van liedjes die zij uitbracht, met wie ze die maakte, hoe hoog die in de hitparades stonden in allerlei landen en hoeveel albums ze wereldwijd verkocht. Daardoor is het net een brij van namen en woorden zonder inhoud. Gaandeweg raakte ik wel wat meer gewend aan de schrijfstijl en omdat het niet een heel dik boek is, heb ik het uitgelezen. Toch vind ik het jammer dat het niet meer gaat over het leven van de zangeres. Zo af en toe kwam ik nieuwe dingen tegen, zoals dat ze in Australië heel populair is, populairder dan in de VS. Ook wist ik niet dat ze zo actief was op gebied van dierenrechten. Deze informatie kun je echter ook op internet vinden, dus heel nieuw is dat niet. Hopelijk komt er een keer een echte (auto)biografie uit. Wat wel positief is dat ik door het lezen van dit boek naar een paar oudere nummers van Pink heb geluisterd. De laatste tijd luisterde ik namelijk alleen naar het nieuwe album.
December 21, 2022
I read a bit of this book while I was in Rome. In whole author is positive about P!nk, although he was listening to her albums only to write the book. He is obviously a fan of Beyonce. Because he calls Beyonce a queen of RnB, a goddess, a princess, a perfection. How could P!nk with her humble pop music be better than Beyonce, because Beyonce is a goddess anyway and P!nk is not good enough to be compared to her. It's what the author thinks. But all what is not related with personal opinion of the author is interesting enough. About childhood, problems. It's a good read this way.
If to look at this book as at the whole thing it's obvious that author didn't contribute anything of his own into this book. He only wrote some humble comments to subject. He wrote them with a good language, but there wasn't anything he could be proud of. The author just took alot of interviews, articles from magazines and from Internet and put them together. Since I translated many articles for my website I saw texts in book which were really the same from what I read before. Tell the truth it wasn't bad, because articles were good enough and P!nk's interviews were interesting, but you read them before it look just ridiculous. The only value of this books is quotes. There are many good P!nk's quotes. It was interesting to read about childhood and personal life, but the rest are kind trashy. The main annoying thing of that author is charts. Probably it took him alot of time to find information about charts, but it's just terrible. There were chapters where 5-6 pages were filled with statistics. It was like: "Single So What took some place in some chart in some country". And he wrote the same for every single chart for all countries. He also wrote about other people in charts and even repeat what he already wrote. Sometimes he wrote the same chart info in some different chapters. It felt like he only wanted to get more pages in his book. At first I read it all, but then I started to skip it when I saw statistics about sold copies in each country. From bad things I also have to mention that he always added statues to people. Maybe it was only for more pages as well. For example during the whole book he mentioned Linda Perry as a "singer-lesbian Linda Perry". I think everywhere where he mentioned her he called her a lesbian. So in whole there were really good chapters I read with a big interest and there were hard chapters because of a big amount of statistics.
If to look at this book as at the whole thing it's obvious that author didn't contribute anything of his own into this book. He only wrote some humble comments to subject. He wrote them with a good language, but there wasn't anything he could be proud of. The author just took alot of interviews, articles from magazines and from Internet and put them together. Since I translated many articles for my website I saw texts in book which were really the same from what I read before. Tell the truth it wasn't bad, because articles were good enough and P!nk's interviews were interesting, but you read them before it look just ridiculous. The only value of this books is quotes. There are many good P!nk's quotes. It was interesting to read about childhood and personal life, but the rest are kind trashy. The main annoying thing of that author is charts. Probably it took him alot of time to find information about charts, but it's just terrible. There were chapters where 5-6 pages were filled with statistics. It was like: "Single So What took some place in some chart in some country". And he wrote the same for every single chart for all countries. He also wrote about other people in charts and even repeat what he already wrote. Sometimes he wrote the same chart info in some different chapters. It felt like he only wanted to get more pages in his book. At first I read it all, but then I started to skip it when I saw statistics about sold copies in each country. From bad things I also have to mention that he always added statues to people. Maybe it was only for more pages as well. For example during the whole book he mentioned Linda Perry as a "singer-lesbian Linda Perry". I think everywhere where he mentioned her he called her a lesbian. So in whole there were really good chapters I read with a big interest and there were hard chapters because of a big amount of statistics.
September 13, 2023
A story about the albums—not really the artist
The book was full of stats about albums sold, country specific sales, etc. I expected to learn more about the person behind the music, but that didn’t really happen. For example, the birth of her daughter is part of one sentence as an afterthought.
The book was full of stats about albums sold, country specific sales, etc. I expected to learn more about the person behind the music, but that didn’t really happen. For example, the birth of her daughter is part of one sentence as an afterthought.
April 13, 2022
Bit disappointed by this book had more information on songs and number of releases in worldwide countries than about Pink herself. Found it hard to stay reading it the overload of figures and things put me off.
October 10, 2021
Too many cd/track facts for me and not enough about P!nk
March 11, 2022
Very good, lots of facts and figures and a good back story
January 23, 2025
Not that good. Mostly about her top music. Not enough from her.
December 6, 2025
Ok
Quick
Alicia Beth Moore is real name
Quick
Alicia Beth Moore is real name
September 20, 2012
Okay. Reads kind-of list-like without actually being in list form, if you know what I mean. Lots of info about where each single reached in the charts, and some media and public response to each release. A few snippets from past interviews.
May 8, 2013
I enjoyed the book (because its about P!nk), but there was a lot of facts that should have been checked as they where not completely accurate. Also its brutal to have misspelled her husbands name, even if it was once, its Carey not Corey.
August 19, 2013
nice to find out about Pink, but it would have been better if it has been written by her as is the case with all biographies
September 29, 2014
beautiful!!!!! i love pink and more her biography! like this! my princess <3<3<3
November 23, 2020
Full of the attitude P!nk is all about.
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