Googoosh

Before there was Madonna or Beyoncé, there was Googoosh. For the first time, one of the biggest pop stars of the 20th century tells her remarkable story: her rise to fame in pre-revolution Iran, her arrest and imprisonment, her twenty-year exile, and finally, her triumphant return to the global stage. “My story is not only my story. It’s about our past, my country, how it was, what it became, what happened to the people, to artists.” What would happen to a country’s biggest pop star if religious