When Whitney Houston died shockingly young at 48 years old this February, headlines around the world lamented the passing of The Queen of Pop - a title never bestowed, but one obviously referring to Michael Jackson and his too-young fate. Those headlines weren't wrong. In the 1980s and into the '90s, Whitney ruled the pop world - her songs were the soundtrack of our lives. More: Her own life was extraordinary, and in the end extraordinarily tragic. In this new commemorative, Life Books seeks to celebrate - and try to explain - Whitney Houston. What a singer. What a life.