High school wrestler Louden Swain is a man obsessed, trying to shed 23 pounds in a dangerously short time and take on Shute, the undefeated, tough-as-nails 168-pound champion who’s the best wrestler in the state. Matthew Modine stars as the mop-headed student undeterred in his Vision Quest…until the day a sexy drifter (Linda Fiorentino) threatens…
While making the high school coming-of-age movie Vision Quest back in the mid-1980s, producers Jon Peters and Peter Gruber tapped songwriters Jon Lind and John Bettis to write a song for it. After Madonna won over musical director Phil Ramone, she was pegged to record the song. The songwriters were skeptical. “We were noodling around and ‘Crazy…
We have just added the soundtrack to the “Vision Quest / Crazy For You” page, including a very rare Japanese promo cassette! Check it out HERE Are you ready to delve into Desperately Seeking Susan? We’ve got A LOT coming up for that one!
Brand new is our feature ‘Releases’ in the Filmography. Starting with “Vision Quest / Crazy For You” we present to you various releases of the film on various formats with unique artwork. We have added ten separate releases of “Vision Quest” on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray under the tab ‘Releases’ HERE
Continuing where we left off before we went on a holiday….. We have updated and restyled the memorabilia section of Madonna’s first cameo in a commercial movie “Vision Quest / Crazy For You”. A total of 13 items have been added, including posters, promo flats and sheet music. If you wonder where the VHS and…
Madonna’s first ever time to star in a major motion picture was in Vision Quest (aka Crazy For You) as a nightclub singer. Three songs were recorded for the film, but only two ended up on the soundtrack and in the film (Crazy For You + Gambler). We have just updated and restyled the press…
On May 11, 1985, Madonna reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart with her first big ballad, “Crazy for You.” The song helped cement her status as a bona fide pop star. She had already raised some eyebrows with “Like a Virgin” in November 1984, but “Crazy for You” was a big departure from her usual sexy…
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. ***Madonna – “Crazy For You” HIT #1: May 11, 1985 STAYED AT #1: 1 week Madonna’s film career has been one hell of…
Collector’s galore! One of the fun things of collecting Madonna merchandise is the variation in artworks. For example here we have this incredibly cool original Warner VHS video from Turkey for the ‘Vision Quest / Crazy For You’ movie with stunning Madonna artwork! Warner Turkey chose to create a full Madonna cover, even though Madonna’s…
This rare promotional ad from Canada has been added to the Vision Quest Filmography page as well as Like a Virgin album promo page. The ad promotes the ‘Angel’ single as well as the ‘GOLD’ single Crazy For You.
Next up in our discography was the re-release of Madonna’s ‘Crazy For You‘ off of The Immaculate Collection. The same artwork was used as for ‘Rescue Me’ (although not blue colored). In this discography we have collected 8 different pressings. Check it all out HERE
New in our discography is Madonna’s single ‘Crazy For You‘, taken from the official soundtrack to Vision Quest (where Madonna made her very first cameo as a nightclub singer). Madonna is seen performing both Crazy For You and Gambler in the film, both songs were released as singles. We have collected 19 different pressings of…
This rare original promotional ad for Madonna’s Crazy For You has been taken from an early Japanese magazine. This has been added to ‘Vision Quest / Crazy For You’ in our Filmography under the ”Press’ tab.
Let’s got back to the Fall of 1983 when Madonna starred in her first ‘major picture’, her first ‘real’ debut in a movie. Even though Madonna acted in the student film ‘A Certain Sacrifice’ before, this was never considered a serious movie. Like we mentioned before, we have launched our Filmography again and are frequently…
