This Week In Billboard Chart History: Madonna ‘Vogue’s To Top Of Hot 100
This week in 1990, the Material Girl struck a pose at No. 1. Plus, remembering key chart feats for Adele, Usher and Mariah Carey Your weekly recap celebrating significant milestones from more than seven decades of Billboard chart history May 19, 1990 Madonna had been inspired by dancers/choreographers Jose and Luis Xtravaganza from the Harlem…
Madonna for L’Uomo magazine
Because of the Internet, or because we’ve acquired some kind of maturity vis-à-vis the mass media, celebrities’ social role has changed in recent years. It’s not that they’re less interesting but now we demand greater transparency. Consequently, many have rediscovered art’s ancient function as a public conscience and they use their media leverage for social…
From Ric’key Pageot
#TBT This @madonna watermarked #cd was hand delivered to me a few days after I got the call to go on the road with her in ’08. This man literally waited on my doorsteps for 30 mins just so he can personally hand it to me when I got back home. I thought I got…
If Madonna’s ‘Like A Prayer’ Were A Wholesome 1940s Tune, It Would Sound Like This
Scott Bradlee and Postmodern Jukebox have taken yet another classic and turned it into something, well, classic. This time they’ve nabbed Madonna’s “Like A Prayer” and recreated it to sound like a 1940s tune with the voice talents of Robyn Adele Anderson. Watch the video above to see the recreation of the ’80s hit, and…
Madonna NYC 83 by Richard Corman Review
In 1983, Richard Corman, a photographer in New York, received a call from his mother, Cis. At the time, Mama Corman worked in casting (credits include Raging Bull and Once Upon A Time In America). She told Richard that “she’d just auditioned a woman,” someone he “really had to photograph.” Mom claimed, “She’s an original!…
