Join Book Club: Delivered to your inbox every Friday, a selection of publishing news, literary observations, poetry recommendations and more from Book World writer Ron Charles. As her friends were dying, she said, “Everything I do has to be some kind of celebration of life.” She put a “Facts About AIDS” insert inside every CD, turning her art into sex education and a destigmatizing force. Dejected as she recorded “ Like a Prayer” - her fourth album, but the first for which she penned all of the lyrics herself - she often wore sunglasses in the studio. She held benefit shows for AIDS research, filmed a public service announcement, flashed the words “SAFE SEX” behind herself onstage. She distributed AIDS awareness brochures at her concerts a year before the government produced its own. Among them were her first dance teacher and mentor, Christopher Flynn, whose classes in suburban Michigan helped a teenage Madonna realize that “I could turn myself into something else.” In the total absence of governmental action, Madonna forged her own crusade. It is harrowingly early in this titanic biography that Madonna begins to lose many of her closest friends and collaborators to AIDS.
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