It was the record that made Madonna a superstar. Already with a slew of hits and a Top 10 debut album to her credit, the young singer took charge of her career with the decade-defining follow-up, Like a Virgin. When Madonna’s record label wouldn’t let her self-produce the album, she tapped Nile Rodgers to serve as producer, largely on the strength of his work with David Bowie’s Let’s Dance.
L-U-V MADONNA!” – Celebrate the 10thanniversary of Madonna’s unforgettable live performance with this branded football tee!
Madonna is printed on the front and XLVI 2012 is printed on the back. Cotton/poly blend red tee.
In 1992 Madonna gave an interview on rumours she was living with HIV. (Twitter)
A throwback 1992 interview with Madonna has shown how the LGBT+ icon gracefully responded to rumours that she had HIV, declaring it would be “nothing to be ashamed of”.
In the interview, Madonna is questioned by Jonathan Ross on rumours that had been making the rounds that she was HIV-positive, at a time before treatment was effective.
There was quite the media campaign for the announcement of The MDNA Tour stop at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam. After the official tour announcement on February 7 a massive promo campaign was run in Dutch free newspaper SPITS and SkyRadio (adverts published in De Telegraaf newspaper) to win free tickets to the show.
A variety of these promo adverts have been added to our MDNA Tour page (section: newspapers) check them all out HERE
Spits February, 2012 (Holland)
Madonna performed her Sticky & Sweet Tour at the Wembley Stadium in London on September 11, 2008. She was scheduled to start the show at 8.30pm due to curfew (and public transport) but did not arrive on stage until 9.10pm.
She forgot the lyrics to “Beat Goes On” and completely messed up “Borderline”. She was singing the first verse again where the second verse was supposed to start, confusing all the fans singing along. She acknowledged the many “GAMBLER” signs fans had brought along in an attempt for Madonna to sing this during the request section of the show. She responded saying she couldn’t remember the words….well hey….we got over “Beat Goes On” and “Borderline” didn’t we? Madonna sang “Express Yourself” instead.
We left after “Ray of Light” and managed to crab a taxi back to our hotel as otherwise we’d surely been among the thousands of people stranded at Wembley Stadium after the show. Due to Madonna passing the curfew, public transport was shut down and many people were left without a ride back home.
Check out our updated and enhanced photographs of the show HERE
Julia Garner could be playing Madonna in her upcoming biopic.
The actress was chatting to Andy Cohen on Sunday’s “Watch What Happens Live” when a caller asked whether she’d been in talks to play the singer on screen.
On this day ten years ago we were at the headoffice of Universal Music Benelux awaiting a meeting to discuss the promo for upcoming album “MDNA”. We arrived on the same time as the official tour announcement for Madonna’s MDNA Tour in Amsterdam at the Ziggo Dome had been released. The pre-sale had already started and if we weren’t experiencing pre-meeting stress already, we were certainly stressing out now. Thankfully we managed to get hold of tickets just fine and the meeting for “MDNA” went ahead as planned.
It was the start of a massive advert campaign for Madonna’s shows at the Ziggo Dome. Check out the full original Dutch press release below the tour image.
Stay tuned for more!
To celebrate its 10th anniversary we have scanned and photographed original media articles on Madonna’s Super Bowl Halftime Show performance. Some of these were previously online, but they have all been enhanced and updated to make for a better reading experience.
Check them all out at our MDNA page.
Star February 20, 2012 (UK)
MBW’s World’s Greatest Songwriters series celebrates the pop composers behind the globe’s biggest hits. This time, we talk to Patrick Leonard who, with Madonna, wrote some of the biggest pop hits of the eighties – even if he never meant to – and who struck a catalog deal with AMRA – the global digital music collection society which strives to maximize value for songwriters and publishers in the digital age.
Patrick Leonard has four co-writes on The Immaculate Collection. The End.
Rafe Gomez will debut “Danceteria REWIND”, a weekly livestream of free two-hour workout mixes featuring New York City 80s club music, on Thursday, February 10 at 8:00PM.
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Rafe Gomez – a nationally acclaimed radio mix show DJ, club DJ, and music producer – will debut “Danceteria REWIND” on the Twitch livestreaming platform beginning on Thursday, February 10 at 8:00PM. “Danceteria REWIND” will be a weekly, two-hour tribute to the innovative music blend that was featured at Danceteria, which was one of Manhattan’s most popular and influential nightclubs in the 1980s.
Madonna released ‘Give Me All Your Luvin” ten years ago today! The track which was the debut single off of forthcoming LP “MDNA” was released just in time for Madonna’s Super Bowl Halftime show.
Check out the discography to the track HERE
Stream the remixes below
Check out a total of 47 rare promotional adverts for the “Like a Prayer” album and the singles.
Direct link HERE
‘Sprechen sie Deutsch?’ Madonna asked the crowd while performing her Sticky & Sweet Tour in Frankfurt in 2008. Seeing as we were in Germany, we reckon they did. Madonna was in much better spirits during her Frankfurt stop and she looked every inch the superstar she was (and is).
During the request section Madonna sang “Express Yourself” as she didn’t feel like ‘virgins’ tonight. She did not get on stage until 9.30pm which was LATE back then. She was playing the Commerzbank Arena which was an open air venue and she probably wanted to wait until it got dark. There was little to no queue when we arrived at the arena that afternoon and it took a long walk with a personal guide (!) to take the Hot Ticket/Early Entry ticket holders to the main entrance.
NME reviewed Madonna’s “Lucky Star” in their October 22, 1983 issue. They reckon that ‘this fatal kitten’s got what it will take’
This has been added to The First Album (press)
NME October 22, 1983 (UK)
Just two days after Amsterdam Madonna performed her Sticky & Sweet Tour at the LTU Arena in Düsseldorf Germany. A venue we’d previously visited for The Confessions Tour in 2006. The organisation had changed the caution tape for steel barriers in the queue outside the arena, a definite improvement.
Madonna seemed to perform on auto-pilot in Düsseldorf and wasn’t as cheerful as she’d been while in Amsterdam. During the ‘request’ section someone in the audience suggested “True Blue” and Madonna responded saying “True Blue? Ewww….let’s sing something that has some balls” and continued to sing “Like a Virgin” a-cappella instead. For the Rebel Heart Tour in 2015 “True Blue” had magically grown some balls, as it was performed every night.
We have 60+ updated, previously unseen and enhanced photographs of this show for you to view HERE
“Ozark” has a fan in Madonna.
This week, Laura Linney appeared on SiriusXM’s “Andy Cohen Live” and is asked about Madonna spoiling a detail about her “Ozark” character before the new season premiered.
“You know, unfortunately it’s the world we’re in,” the actress said, adding, “You know, I’m just, I’m happy she watches it. How nice.”
Madonna is ready to pucker up again.
The Queen of Pop wants to go on tour with Britney Spears and redo their infamous kiss from the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards.
“Hell yeah!” Madonna, 63, said on Instagram Live Tuesday after a fan asked whether she plans to do another world tour one day. “Stadium, baby! Me and Britney, what about that?”
Madonna went on Instagram live last night, here’s a short recap:
On this day in 1989 Pepsi announced they had signed a $5 million deal with Madonna. She would be starring in a series of TV commercials and Pepsi would sponsor her upcoming “Like a Prayer World Tour.”
WEA Records in Holland sent out a three-page press release announcing the deal and upcoming news related to the new album “Like a Prayer.” A massive campaign followed in the month of February and various adverts were published in magazines and newspapers. There was even a promotional press pack including a poster and empty CD case announcing the campaign for retailers.
We have managed to collect a lot of these press articles and withdrawn promotional articles. Check out the new ‘Pepsi Campaign’ section in our “Like a Prayer” page HERE
Madonna Pepsi Promo Pack (Holland)
