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MadonnaTribe meets Stephen Bray and the Breakfast Club

MadonnaTribe meets Stephen Bray and the Breakfast Club

This weekend the MadonnaTribe team is happy to have another chance to get back to the roots of Madonna’s three decades in the history of music and welcome Stephen Bray and the Breakfast Club.

MTribe‘s Mario John is thrilled to meet the legendary songwriter, drummer, and producer who co-wrote hits as Into The Groove, Express YourselfTrue Blue, Each Time You Break My Heart, Where’s The Party and Causing A Commotion, to name just a few, not to mention the great input he had on Madonna’s early songs and on her first self titled album. Read More

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Madonna looks back on Truth or Dare

It’s one of the best music documentaries ever – and offered viewers an unfettered look at one of the world’s biggest celebrities. But what does the film’s subject, Madonna, think about the movie, Truth or Dare, 24 years after its release? Read More

Rick Nowels

Rick Nowels: working with Madonna was a career-changing experience for me

Dale Kawashima from Songwriter Universe conducted a long interview with songwriter and producer Rick Nowels about his career spanning three decades and the hits he created with an amazing variety of different artists.

Rick is best know to Madonna fans for his contribution to the Ray of Light album but due to the credits missing in Rebel Heart album booklet not as many know that he’s also one of the co-writers of Beautiful Scars together with Madonna, Dacoury Natche and Michael Tucker.

The Songwriter Universe chat focuses on Rick Nowels was it like working with Madonna on her 1998 album. Read More

Shep Pettibone and Madonna

Shep Pettibone’s First Interview in 20 Years: On Making a Madonna Classic

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Vogue reaching #1 on the Hot 100 singles chart, Billboard‘s Keith Caulfield reached out to dance legend Shep Pettibone, the song’s co-producer and co-writer, for his first interview in 20 years.

Billboard talked to Pettibone, of course, about the genesis and making of Vogue, but also his later work with the Madonna on The Immaculate Collection and Erotica, the sampling lawsuit against him and Madonna over Vogue, and why he stepped away from the music business nearly 20 years ago. Read More