Celebrating Madonna’s Psychedelic Masterwork
Rob Sheffield at RollingStone.com joins the Ray of Light celebrations discussion how Madonna, inspired by motherhood and yoga, reinvented herself on her most passionate album to date. Read More
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“Ray of Light predicted our obsession with celebrity”
Sophie Wilkinson on Vice discusses how Ray of Light became Madonna‘s second most successful studio album, which, twenty years on, still sounds spectacular. Read More
“There’s quite a story around that”
In more Ray of Light turning 20 celebrations, Matthew Jacobs from the HuffPost discusses what Gianni Versace‘s death tells us about Madonna‘s 1998 renaissance, discussing her footpath from Bedtime Story to the Ray of Light era. Read More
William Orbit: Ray of Light “broke all the rules”
In 2015, on the 17th birthday of Madonna’s Ray of Light, Official Charts spoke to producer
William Orbit about working on the record. Read More
Madonna’s “Ray of Light” collaborators look back
Twenty years since its release, singers and producers alike are still chasing the finely finessed fusion of anguished rumination and beat-driven bliss of Madonna’s Ray of Light. Rolling Stone spoke with key collaborators on this watershed LP. Check out six things they learned. Read More
“And suddenly this created an intimacy”
On the 20th anniversary of the release of Madonna’s Ray of Light, let’s go back to an interview published by The Daily Telegraph in year 2009, where photographer Mario Testino discusses the second time he worked with Madonna, a collaboration that brought us the iconic album and single covers. Read More
The video-remixes for “Frozen” now on Madonna’s YouTube
The official Madonna channel on YouTube gets ready to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of Ray of Light by adding the two video remixes created by Dan-O-Rama to promote the album’s lead single back in 1998, based on edits of the Frozen remixes by Victor Calderone and Stereo MC’s. Read More
“If my husband would let me, I’d tattoo your name on my arm”
Appearing on The Graham Norton Show to promote the reboot of Will & Grace, the American sit-com’s co-stars Debra Messing and Eric McCormack spilled some beans on what happened behind the scenes whith some of the show’s celebrity guests, including Madonna. Read More
Madonna’s ‘Erotica’ Turns 25: An Oral History of the Most Controversial ’90s Pop Album
Billboard.com‘s Joe Lynch looks back at how twenty-five years ago Madonna changed fully sheding her ebullient ’80s pop skin, donning a leather cat mask, and kick-opening a rusty back alley door that previous chart-toppers only dared to scratch at with the release of Erotica. Read More
Why ‘Erotica’ and ‘Sex’ Still Matter
On the 25th anniversary of the release of Madonna’s Erotica album, Rolling Stone discusses how the icon’s 1992 projects tackled homophobia, AIDS hysteria and female, queer desire, and set the blueprint for modern pop. Read More
Her name is Dita
On this day, 25 years ago, Madonna released Erotica, her most provocative and daring album which was also her first release on Maverick Records label.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of Erotica five years ago the MadonnaTribe team met Tony Shimkin, co-producer and co-author of some of the album’s greatest songs, Tony brought us behind the scenes of the making of this incredible album and talked about two songs that didn’t make the final cut of the album, You Are The One and Shame. Both tracks were still unknow at the time and later surfaced on the internet in Summer 2014. Read More
Happy 35th anniversary, Madonna!
Dance and Sing get up and do your thing…
That’s the line that started it all for both Madonna and her fans, a line from her first single, Everybody, released by Sire Records on this day 35 years ago. Read More
