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
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 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
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
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
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
30 years ago today Madonna performed the second to final show of her Who’s That Girl World Tour at the Stadio Comunale in Turin, Italy – a performance that later combined with footage from the final show in Florence on September 6 and parts recorded in Tokyo, Japan, became the famous VHS tour souvenir Ciao Italia.
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To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the True Blue album, MadonnaTribe brings you a special message from Stephen Bray, co-writer and co-producer of some of the most iconic songs on this album, such as the title track, Where’s The Party and Jimmy Jimmy. His production work on Papa Don’t Preach was also amazing! Read More
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
Ahead of the L.A. showing of Madonna’s Truth or Dare as part of Outfest’s Legacy Project, Heath Daniels at Queerty chatted with a number of people depicted in the the documentary.
This very special Cast of characters included Donna De Lory, Carlton Wilborn, Kevin Stea, Luis Camacho and Slam. Read More
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
Carin Goldberg – the art director behind Madonna’s debut album cover – spoke to New York magazine’s the Cut about her first experience with the then-unknown pop star. Read More
